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What Are Adjectives? Adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: enormous, doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast. They can also describe the quantity of nouns: many, few, millions, eleven.

Adjectives Modify Nouns Most students learn that adjectives are words that modify (describe) nouns. (Adjectives do not modify verbs or adverbs or other adjectives.)

1.Margot wore a beautiful hat to the pie-eating contest. 2.Furry dogs may overheat in summertime. 3.My cake should have sixteen candles. 4.The scariest villain of all time is Darth Vader. (In the sentences above, the adjectives are easy to spot because they come immediately before the nouns they modify.)

But adjectives can do more than just modify nouns. They can also act as a complement to linking verbs or the verb to be. A linking verb is a verb like to feel, to seem, or to taste that describes a state of being or a sensory experience.

1.That cow sure is happy. 2.It smells gross in the locker room. 3.Driving is faster than walking.

The technical term for an adjective used this way is predicate adjective.

Types of adjectives are as follows:-

1) The four demonstrative adjectives—this, that, these, and those—are identical to the demonstrative pronouns. They are used to distinguish the person or thing being described from others of the same category or class. This and these describe people or things that are nearby, or in the present. That and those are used to describe people or things that are not here, not nearby, or in the past or future. These adjectives, like the definite and indefinite articles (a, an, and the), always come before any other adjectives that modify a noun.

2) An indefinite adjective describes a whole group or class of people or things, or a person or thing that is not identified or familiar. The most common indefinite adjectives are: all, another, any, both, each, either, enough, every, few, half, least, less, little, many, more, most, much, neither, one (and two, three, etc.), other, several, some, such, whole.

3) The interrogative adjectives—primarily which, what, and whose—are used to begin questions. They can also be used as interrogative pronouns.       a)Which horse did you bet on? = Which did you bet on? b)What songs did they sing? = What did they sing?       c)Whose coat is this? = Whose is this?