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Read these sentences.
1. Indian people love peace.
2. This is a Korean watch.
3. She is a Canadian citizen.
Each sentence has a word in colour. It has been derived from a proper noun. It acts as
an adjective to the noun that follows it. So it is a proper adjective.
Given below is a list of some commonly used proper adjectives.
Proper Noun Adjective Proper Noun Adjective
People Lands
Victoria Victorian Germany German
Elizabeth Elizabethan America American
George Georgian Japan Japanese
Lands Korea Korean
Singapore Singaporean Nepal Nepalese
Africa African Persia Persian
Arabia Arabian Spain Spanish
Asia Asian Turkey Turkish
Interrogative Adjective
An interrogative adjective is an adjective that precedes a noun and asks a question
about it.
Read these sentences.
1. Which school do you attend?
2. Whose pen is this?
3. Which way is the wind blowing?
Each sentence has a word in colour. It is a question word and it acts as an adjective to
the noun that follows it. So it is an interrogative adjective.
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