The Adjective

The Adjective

1.Proper adjectives

A Portuguese sailor

The English teacher

The Indian plains

2. Descriptive Adjectives- indicating a quality or state restricting the application of a noun to such a person or thing as possesses the quality or state denoted by the adjective:

a brave boy, a sick lion, a large field

3. Quantitative Adjectives

Much, little nom none, some, any, enough, sufficient, all, whole, half etc

!!! NO is always an adjective, NONE is always a pronoun.

Adjectives of quantity are always followed by a singular noun: this noun must always be a noun if material or an abstract noun.

4. Numeral Adjectives

May be: definite (cardinals, ordinals, multiplicative)

Indefinite: all, some, enough, no, many, few. Etc

! a definite numeral can be made indefinite by placing the word some or about before it.

5. Demonstrative Adjectives

Definite: this, that, such, the same, the other, these, those

Indefinite: ,a, an, one, any, a certain, such, some, another, other.

6. Distributive Adjectives: each, every, either, and neither.

Usage of Adjectives

They may be used as:

A.   Attributes

The following types of adjectives may only be used as attributely:

1. words with strong emotive value:

you poor man, my dear lady, that wretched woman.

2. intensifying Adjectives

Emphasizers have an intensifying effect:

a certain winner, pure fabrication, a clear failure, a mere repetition, an outright lie, a sure sign, a simple truth, a true scholar, a real hero, a definite loss

Amplifiers scale upwards from an assumed norm. Some may be used predicatively:

a complete victory= the victory was complete

but only attributively in a complete fool, a total nonsense, a great supporter, a perfect idiot, an extreme enemy , the absolute limit, a close friend, the very end, his entire salary, a firm friend

Downtoners have a lowering effect

a slight effort a feeble joke.

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