Read and learn about adjectives!
Adjectives are words that describe, modify, or provide more information about nouns or pronouns. They tell us about qualities, quantities, or characteristics of a noun.
Piemērs:
The blue sky is beautiful.
Descriptive adjectives describe qualities of a noun.
Piemērs:
happy, tall, small, red, intelligent
Quantitative adjectives indicate quantity or amount.
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some, many, few, several, ten
Demonstrative adjectives point to specific nouns.
Piemērs:
this, that, these, those
Possessive adjectives show possession or ownership.
Piemērs:
my, your, his, her, its, our, their
Interrogative adjectives are used in questions.
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which, what, whose
Proper adjectives are derived from proper nouns and are capitalized.
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French wine, American culture, Shakespearean drama
Comparative and superlative adjectives are used for comparison.
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big → bigger → biggest
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When multiple adjectives are used, they follow a specific order:
Opinion → Size → Age → Shape → Color → Origin → Material → Purpose
Opinion → Size → Age → Shape → Color → Origin → Material → Purpose
Piemērs:
A beautiful small old round red Italian wooden table.
Adjectives usually go before the noun they describe.
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A red dress.
Adjectives can also go after a linking verb.
Piemērs:
The dress is red.
Adjectives modify nouns (a happy child), while adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs (sings happily).