What are Adjectives in English Grammar? What are various types of Adjectives? Examples of Adjectives

Adjectives are used for describing words. For example: Small, Large, big, giant

When we use more than one adjectives, it is known as enumeration of adjectives. 

  • Adjectives qualifying nouns - There are adjectives that describes the characterstics of a noun - what colour, what size, how many, which makes sentences more specific/ exact or clearer. 
  • Adjectives describing pronouns - There are adjectives that describes pronouns - Press yellow buttonm etc.

There are various types of adjectives namely: 

  • Posessive pronouns - my, your, his, her, our, their 
  • Demonstrative adjectives - These  refer to specific things - this, that, these, those 
  • Indefinite adjectivies -These don't point to a specific thing and are formed from indefinite pronouns such as no, many, few, several 
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