Sunday, November 21, 2010

Adjectives


Lets look into Adjectives!

An Adjective is describing word. It describes a person or things.

Example: a blue dress
a cruel king
a sharp knife

Types of Adjective

Descriptive - uses to describe quality as ugly, round, tiny, sweet

Examples: He brought a blue Proton Wira
She put a round dining table in the middle of the room

Quantitative - uses to describe the number or amount of an item as many, two, plenty, a few

Examples: I just bought three tennis rackets
Alice gave some water to the cat

Demonstrative - to indicate the object or objects in question as this, that, those, these

Examples: That shoe belongs to Mohan.
This Indian restaurant has the best nasi lemak.

Interrogative - uses to ask questions like what, why, who, which, whose, how

Examples: Who came to visit Mariam just now?
Why is the shirt still outside?

Possessive - uses to show possession like my, your, their, his, her, our

Example: This is my new handbag.
Her parents are from New Zealand.




*Homework*: Find 50 adjectives words and write it down on your work book and form sentences for each 20 words you found. You can refer to the dictionary if you want.




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