Some Kinds of Adjective with my Group in2011B, in Structure 2

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In linguistics, an 'adjective' is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified. Adjectives are one of the traditional eight English parts of speech, although linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that formerly were considered to be adjectives. Just look on the slide..

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Adjectives

Adjectives are words that modify or describe a noun or noun

phrase.

Adjectives

Kinds of adjectiveDescriptive Adjectives

Limiting Adjectives

is adjective that describe condition of person or thing.

is adjective that limits person or thing.

Numeral adjectiveDemonstrative AdjectiveProper AdjectivesQuantitative adjectiveInterrogative AdjectivePossessive AdjectivePredicate AdjectivesDistributive Adjective

Kinds of adjective

Numeral adjectiveDefinite Indefinite

Cardinal ( one, two, three, etc )

Ordinal ( first, second, third, etc )

Multiplications (Single, double, triple, Etc)

AllFewEnoughSomeEtc.

Demonstrative adjectivesDemonstrative Adjective is consist of…

Definite

Indefinite.

Definiteshowing something exactly.

Singular

• the some, this, the,…

Plural

• these, those, ….

IndefiniteShowing something not exactly

Singular Pluralanother , a, an, any,….

any certain, such, some,…

Proper AdjectivesProper adjectives are derived from proper

noun and must always be capitalized. Proper adjectives are often used to show the origin of something.

examples :French tires are excellent.

Italian food is the best!Jack prefers Canadian maple

syrup.

Quantitative Adjective

Example:MuchLittleSomeAllEtc

•He has a little knowledge.•I ate some rice.•He spent all his money.

Adjective which show the quantity of a thing is called the Adjective of Quantity.

Interrogative AdjectivesInterrogative adjectives are used to ask question. Interrogative adjectives include which and what

Examples:Which kind of car do you drive?What time should I come?What type of ice cream do you like?

Possessive Adjectives

Possessive adjectives are also known as Pronominal adjectives as discussed above. Possessive adjectives are created from pronouns and include my, your, his, her, its, our, and their.

Examples :

- That's my house.- Our vacation was a lot of fun.- He delivered their mail every day.

Predicate AdjectivesPredicate adjectives are placed at the end of a sentence or clause to describe the noun at the beginning of a sentence. Predicate adjectives are often used with the verb 'to be'.

Examples:His job is stressful.The vacation was enjoyable.It probably isn't very easy.

Distributive Adjectives Distributive adjectives are normally used with singular

nouns. They include “each”, “every”, “either”, and “neither” and are used to refer to members of a group as individuals or Distributive adjectives are adjectives that indicate one of the total amount of an existing object, or to show the spread of an object. The words used for distributive adjectives: each (each, each, respectively), every (each, each), either (between, one), and Neither (not between, not both).

Examples :-Each component can be replaced separately if it breaks.- She knows every student in the school.- There are shops at either end of the street.- I’ve lived in New York and Chicago, but don’t like either city very much.- Neither answer is correct.

Thanks a lot for your attention…guys

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