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Adjective and Its Kinds: Possessive Adjectives

This document defines and provides examples of the different types of adjectives in English. It discusses possessive adjectives like "my" and "your" that indicate possession. Demonstrative adjectives like "this" and "that" demonstrate specific nouns. Coordinate adjectives are separated by commas or "and" to modify the same noun. Numbers function as adjectives by answering "how many?". Interrogative adjectives include "which", "what", and "whose" and are used to ask questions. Indefinite adjectives like "any" and "many" discuss non-specific things. Finally, attributive adjectives describe specific attributes like size, age, color, origin

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Adjective and Its Kinds: Possessive Adjectives

This document defines and provides examples of the different types of adjectives in English. It discusses possessive adjectives like "my" and "your" that indicate possession. Demonstrative adjectives like "this" and "that" demonstrate specific nouns. Coordinate adjectives are separated by commas or "and" to modify the same noun. Numbers function as adjectives by answering "how many?". Interrogative adjectives include "which", "what", and "whose" and are used to ask questions. Indefinite adjectives like "any" and "many" discuss non-specific things. Finally, attributive adjectives describe specific attributes like size, age, color, origin

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Adjective and its kinds

Adjectives can modify as well as describe other words, and you’ll


find it much easier to identify different types of adjectives when you
see them.

Possessive Adjectives- As the name indicates, possessive


adjectives are used to indicate possession. They are: My, Your,
His, Her etc. Possessive adjectives also function as possessive
pronouns.

Demonstrative Adjectives- Like the article the, demonstrative


adjectives are used to indicate or demonstrate specific people,
animals, or things. These, those, this and that are demonstrative
adjectives.

 These books belong on that


 This movie is my favorite.
 Coordinate Adjectives- Coordinate adjectives are separated
with commas or the word and, and appear one after another to
modify the same noun. The adjectives in the phrase bright,
sunny day and long and dark night are coordinate adjectives. In
phrases with more than two coordinate adjectives, the
word and always appears before the last one; for example: The
sign had big, bold, and bright letters. Be careful, because some
adjectives that appear in a series are not coordinate. In the
phrase green delivery truck, the words green and delivery are not
separated by a comma because green modifies the
phrase delivery truck. To eliminate confusion when determining
whether a pair or group of adjectives is coordinate, just insert the
word and between them. If and works, then the adjectives are
coordinate and need to be separated with a comma.

Numbers Adjectives- When they’re used in sentences, numbers


are almost always adjectives. You can tell that a number is an
adjective when it answers the question “How many?”

 The stagecoach was pulled by a team of six


 He ate 23 hotdogs during the contest, and was sick afterwards.

Interrogative Adjectives- There are three interrogative


adjectives: which, what, and whose. Like all other types of
adjectives, interrogative adjectives modify nouns. As you probably
know, all three of these words are used to ask questions.

 Which option sounds best to you?


 What time should we go?
 Whose socks are those?

Indefinite Adjectives- Like the articles a and an, indefinite


adjectives are used to discuss non-specific things. You might
recognize them, since they’re formed from indefinite pronouns. The
most common indefinite adjectives are any, many, no,
several, and few.

 Do we have any peanut butter?


 Grandfather has been retired for many years.
 Attributive Adjectives- Attributive adjectives talk about specific
traits, qualities, or features – in other words, they are used to
discuss attributes. There are different kinds of attributive
adjectives:

 Observation adjectives such as real, perfect, best, interesting,


beautiful or cheapest can indicate value or talk about subjective
measures.
 Size and shape adjectives talk about measurable, objective
qualities including specific physical properties. Some examples
include small, large, square, round, poor, wealthy, slow and
 Age adjectives denote specific ages in numbers, as well as general
ages. Examples are old, young, new, five-year-old, and
 Color adjectives are exactly what they sound like – they’re
adjectives that indicate color. Examples include pink, yellow,
blue, and
 Origin adjectives indicate the source of the noun, whether it’s a
person, place, animal or thing. Examples include American,
Canadian, Mexican, French.
 Material adjectives denote what something is made of. Some
examples include cotton, gold, wool, and
 Qualifier adjectives are often regarded as part of a noun. They
make nouns more specific; examples include log cabin,
luxury car, and pillow cover.

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