ADJECTIVES
Adjectives are the words that qualify nouns or noun
equivalents i.e. pronouns. So, they may tell the quality and / or quantity of
persons, places, things and feelings etc.
Examples of Adjectives : good, great, awesome, bad,
beautiful, awesome, urgent, tall, fat, few, agile, intelligent, stubborn,
sincere, stupid, healthy, weak, strong, wealthy, high, black, red, straight,
talented, submissive, active, poor, incorrigible, circular, first, exact, smooth
etc.
Adjectives add something to the meaning of nouns and
pronouns. They may tell us as what kind of a thing, person, place or feeling is
being talked about; or may tell how much of anyone of them is under
consideration. Some adjectives also describe the rank or order of nouns and
pronouns. Here again, it must be noted that a given word which is an adjective
may perform some other function such as that of a noun, a pronoun or an adverb.
In order to have complete insight into the usage of
adjectives, following aspects of adjectives need to be studied in detail.
- Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives
- Formation of Adjectives
- Types of Adjectives
- Position of Adjectives in a Sentence
- Order When Multiple Adjectives are Used to Qualify a Single
Noun / Pronoun
- Adjectives vs Adverbs
- Adjectives vs Pronouns
- Adjectives vs Nouns
- Correct Usage of Adjectives – Points to be Observed