منتديات ليلاس - GRAMMAR LESSONS / ADJECTIVES

Adjectives are words we use to describe a noun. They usually come before it:

a big, red, boring book

The noun in this phrase is book and the adjectives tell us what size it is (big), what color it is (red) and what we think of it (boring).

Adjectives never change their form; they are always the same:

the ugly woman and the ugly man

the ugly football team and the ugly goalkeeper

the ugly dog and the ugly scenery

Common types of adjectves are:

Possessive Adjectives:

The possessive adjectives are my, your, his, her, its, our, their and they modify nouns by showing possession or ownership.

my dog, their party, your house

Demonstrative Adjectives:
this, these, that, those

These apples are wonderful.

Indefinite Adjectives:

Several pedestrians witnessed the event.

Interrogative Adjectives:

what, which, and whose

Which trapeze artist fell?

Cardinal Adjectives:

These are adjectives that modify a noun by numbering i t (stating how many there are).

five books
two fish

Ordinal Adjectives:

An ordinal adjective indicates the position of a noun in a series.

the first date
the fourth day