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Here are some adjectives that describe some specific features.

Non-physical Physical quality Number or age Origin of a person
attribute or a thing

best, beautiful, tall, thin, round, new, old, young, Indian, Chinese,
interesting, cheap, rich, heavy, fast two-year-old, French, English,
unique ancient, modern Bengali, Gujarati

Sometimes, an adjective is very much part of a noun it describes. We call it a qualifier
adjective. For example: wooden axe, luxury boat, flowery path, stone tool, etc.

Adjectives of Quantity

Adjectives of quantity indicate: how much? of a noun is there. They do not give specific
facts and figures in numbers. Words such as many, enough and most are some commonly
used adjectives of quantity. For example:

Most students are intelligent in this class.
O
He has many problems of his own.
O

R
Rememberemember
Adjectives modify as well as describe nouns or pronouns. There can be more than one adjective in a
sentence.
For example: They live in a beautiful, big bungalow.

Adjectives of Number
Adjectives of number answer the question: how many? They depict either the number of a
noun or its position or place in a certain order in a sentence. They are used with countable
nouns. For example:

Louisa kept ten glasses of water on the table. (cardinal)
O
She was the first to finish the race. (ordinal)
O
Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives demonstrate specific people, animals or things. They modify
nouns that follow them immediately. Demonstrative adjectives are this, that, these and
those. For example:
Please put those cookies on that blue plate. Adjectives
O
These shoes fit me very well.
O
Distributive Adjectives

Distributive adjectives are placed before the nouns they qualify. They are normally used
with singular nouns. Sometimes, they may be used with plural nouns when followed
by of. Some commonly used distributive adjectives are each, every, either and neither.
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