Adjectives are descriptive words featuring mostly before a noun in a sentence. They are formed from nouns and other words by adding the suffixes, -al (political), -ful (cheerful), -ic (atomic), -ish (childish), -ous (dangerous) or prefixes to other adjectives - dis (dishonest), -ir (irredeemable), -un (unfortunate), -over (overtired).
They have three forms:
Positive - big
comparative - bigger
superlative - biggest
Some have irregular forms such as bad, worse and worst or intelligent, more intelligent and most intelligent.
Some adjectives may be used as adverbs such as straight, fast, hard.
The main kind of adjectives are :
Demonstrative - this, that these, those
Distributive - each, every, either, neither
Of quality - heavy, nice, clever
Of quantity - some, any, few, many
Interrogative - which, what, where
Possessive - my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their
EXAMPLES:
1. The house looked large and inconvenient
2. The weather was cold, wet and windy
3. This is an interesting book
4. Ram is the cleverest boy in the class
5. He makes fewer mistakes than you.
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