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Uses Of Adjectives

Attributive Use

The attributive use of an adjective only gives some information about the noun. Its importance is
less than its noun.
wonderful scenery fascinating job technical work

This use of the adjectives is called attributive use.
Predicative Use

The adjective which draws the attention of the readers and becomes more important than its
noun when it is placed after the verbs.
The morning was pleasant. The pizza was tasty.

This use of adjectives is called predicative use.

Adjectives for Comparisons

We know adjectives are describing words. Most of them tell us the qualities of nouns or pronouns.
It means that the quality indicated by the adjective can be more or less in one noun than in another
noun. For this, we use adjectives in three different forms.
Adjectives of quality have three forms called degrees of comparison.
Comparison can be expressed by its three types.

1. The positive degree is used when no comparison is made.

2. The comparative degree is used when two people or things are compared.
3. The superlative degree is used when more than two people or things of the same class are
compared.
So most adjectives have three different forms to be used in different types of comparisons.

A. Positive Form

This is the usual form of an adjective.
high noble hot pretty little

This usual form is used in two ways. It is used:
(a) to simply describe the quality of a noun (no comparison).

1. Eshika is a charming lady.
2. The Hawa Mahal is a very grand building.

(b) to state that two nouns have or don’t have quality to the same degree.
1. Radhika is as thin as Ekta. (positive)

2. Radhika is not so thin as Ekta. (negative)

B. Comparative Form
The comparative adjective is used to state that a noun has a quality to a higher or lower degree
than another noun.

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