Adjectives and Adverbs
ADJECTIVES Adjectives are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs and adverbs. Examples of adjectives are: big, small, blue, old, rich and nice. They give us more information about people, animals or things represented by nouns and pronouns. Adjectives fall into two categories: descriptive and limiting. Descriptive adjectives are those which describe the colour, size, or quality of a person or a thing while limiting adjectives place restrictions on the words they modify (quantity, distance, possession, etc.) Descriptive Limiting Beautiful Cardinal numbers (one, two) Expensive Ordinal numbers (first, second) Interesting Possesives (my, your, his, her, its) Big Demonstratives (this, that, these, those) Delicious Quantity (few, many, much) Important Articles (a, an, the) Examples of adjectives: · ...