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Adjectives of Quantity

Adjectives of quantity show the approximate amount of a noun or a pronoun.
For example: few, little, enough, all, many, etc.

Proper Adjectives
Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns.
German chocolate cake is very rich in flavour
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The Japanese paper cranes are meant for good luck.
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They may be made from names of places—countries, continents, regions, cities. For example:
Indian, African, Amazonian, Balinese, Muscovite.

Or from names of people—usually famous people, mostly historical, some modern. For
example: Buddhist, Shakespearean, Darwinian.

Adjectives of Number

Adjectives of number indicate the number of a noun and its place in a sentence.
Adjectives of number can be as follows:

Definite – one, two, second, tenth, etc.
Indefinite – few, some, several, etc.

Distributive – each, every, either, neither, etc.

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• A little and a few means some. • Little and few means hardly any.

Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives indicate a particular noun or a pronoun.
For example: this car, these books, that animal, and those boys.

Interrogative Adjectives

Interrogative adjectives are used to ask a question and placed before the noun in a sentence.
For example: where, which, what, and whose

Participle Adjectives

Participle adjectives are descriptive terms that describe nouns or pronouns. They can be hard Adjectives
to distinguish because they often look like participle forms of the verbs. Sometimes, they
look like comparative adjectives, but they do not always serve this function grammatically.
Participial adjectives help describe a noun or pronoun.

Participle adjectives get their name because:
 they have a participle ending (-ed, -ing).

 they function as adjectives by describing nouns or pronouns.
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