Look at the following sentences:
"That is an elephant."
"She is a girl."
"This is a car."
These sentences identify an animal, a person and a thing. Now, if we add something before the nouns we can get more information:
"That is a LARGE elephant."
"She is a GOOD girl."
"This is a NICE car."
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The words in capitals just before the nouns describe the nouns and are known as adjectives.
Adjectives help to provide more clarity in meanings of sentences.
Adjectives help to give more information.
Adjectives are normally placed before a noun.
Adjectives can be used for persons, animals or things. For instance, we can use LARGE for a girl just as we used it for an elephant and we can also use it for a car.
The adjective becomes useful when you want to communicate more than just a fact. Adjectives can be used in a complete sentence as many times as required. For instance:
"This is a NICE car."
"The GOOD girl sat in a NICE car."
"The GOOD girl sat in a NICE car and while she was travelling on the road she came across a LARGE elephant."
Again, we can create a sentence by interchanging the adjectives. Consider the sentence:
"The NICE girl sat in a GOOD car and saw a LARGE elephant on the road."
In all the cases the adjectives describe the noun and the reader is able to get more information. The sentence tells us something about a girl, a car and an elephant. But the type of adjectives we have used also provides us additional information. Now, if we change the adjectives and rewrite the sentence as:
"The LARGE girl sat in a GOOD car and saw a NICE elephant," we now get information which is different from the first sentence.
An adjective is one of the eight parts of speech that form the backbone of the English language. Take the quiz that follows and learn how to use simple adjectives.
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The adjective 'Yellow' is placed before the noun 'taxi'
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The adjective 'Angry' is placed before the 'noun' father. The other sentences are grammatically wrong
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'Best' describes friend and 'Black' describes shoes. Both adjectives are placed before their respective nouns
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'Small' describes the child and 'Broken' descries the toy. The adjectives are correctly placed before their respective nouns
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Two boys are described as, 'Fat' and 'Thin' and these adjectives are placed before the nouns they describe. The other sentences are grammatically wrong
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'Smart' describes soldiers, 'Straight' describes the line and 'Bright' describes the day. All three adjectives are placed before their respective nouns. The other sentences are grammatically wrong
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The correct use of the adjectives 'Full', 'Young' and 'Healthy' before the appropriate nouns makes the sentence more meaningful
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The adjectives 'Poor', 'Sharp' and 'Black' are used appropriately to lend meaning to the sentence. Also, 'Poor Purse' could be grammatically correct as the adjective 'Poor' is placed before the noun 'Purse', but does not make sense as 'Poor' is used to describe a person rather than an object
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The adjectives 'Shiny', 'Flat' and 'Great' are used perfectly to describe their respective nouns. The other three sentences are grammatically wrong
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Although all the options are grammatically correct, it is important to learn the correct usage of adjectives to make the sentence meaningful
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