Adjective

An Adjective is an important part of speech. That usually describes or modifies the noun. While learning the grammar of the English language, it is important to know about the adjective. This article will give the types of adjectives with suitable examples. Also, adjective quizzes provided below will help students to have more understanding about the adjectives and how to use adjectives in the sentence.  The different types of adjectives quizzes are given below. 

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Types of Adjectives 

Usually, adjectives in English languages are of thirteen types.  Here some of the adjectives with their examples are given in detail.

The types of adjectives are given below in detail.  

1. Comparative adjectives

2. Predicate adjectives

3. Superlative adjectives

4. Possessive adjectives

5. Compound adjectives

6. Proper adjectives

7. Participial adjectives

8. Demonstrative adjectives

9. Limiting adjectives

10. Interrogative adjectives

11. Descriptive adjectives

12. Attributive adjectives

13. Distributive adjectives

Comparative Adjectives 

Usually, the comparative adjectives can mainly be used to compare two things or two people. The comparative adjectives will describe the difference between the two things. Examples for the short adjectives are adding -er at some words like older, faster, bigger, happier...etc. An example of more adjectives is adding more before the words like more expensive, more modern. 

Superlative Adjectives 

Superlative adjectives are mainly used to express the extreme or highest degree of quality of one thing or group of things or people. Examples of superlative adjectives are biggest, fastest, happiest..etc. most comfortable, most appropriate is also the superlative adjectives. 

Predicative Adjectives

The predictive adjectives in a sentence will describe the subject of the sentence. For example, he is a handsome guy.  She is too pretty. Here, handsome and pretty are the predictive adjective. 

Possessive Adjectives

The possessive adjectives will use to express who owns something. Examples of possessive adjectives are, my, your, his, her...etc.  

Compound Adjectives

The compound adjectives are created by combining two or more adjectives. For example, four-foot, part-time, all-among,..etc. 

Proper Adjectives

The proper adjectives will describe the people, things, and places. For example, Russia, India, Gandhi,...etc. 

Participial Adjectives

The participial adjectives in the English sentence will either end with -ed or -ing. For example, playing, swimming ended, preferred. 

Demonstrative Adjectives

The demonstrative adjectives in the English sentence are used to express the relative position of a noun in time or space. For example, that, this, those, and these. 

Limiting Adjectives

Limiting adjectives in the sentence will help to express the count of nouns. For example, a, an, the, our...etc.  

Interrogative Adjectives

The interrogative adjectives in the sentence will describe the noun and be used in the question form. For example, which, whose, and what. 

Descriptive Adjectives

The adjective that is used to describe the size, shape, color of the person or thing is called descriptive adjectives. For example, nice person, clever girl,  genuine product...etc 

Attributive Adjectives

The attributive adjective is used to describe or modify the characteristics of the noun. For example, dark, mysterious, indoor, outdoor...etc. 

Distributive Adjectives

The distributive adjective will refer to separate things. For example, each, every, neither, either..etc. 

Adjective Quizzes 

1. I am a _____ happy person

1. few

2. very

3. a little

4. some

Answer: (b) very 

Explanation: I am a very happy person. The word ‘very’ suitable word for this sentence. 

2. “My path is harder than another path” The adjective ‘harder’ used in this sentence is a ______ adjective

1. compound adjective

2. superlative adjective

3. comparative adjective 

4. proper adjective

Answer: c) comparative adjective  

Explanation: The word harder in the given sentence is a comparative adjective. 

3. Most of the adjectives are ended with which among the following suffix?

1. -ness 

2. -ment

3. -ity

4. -able

Answer: d) -able

Explanation: Most of the adjectives are ended with the suffix -able. Example, moveable, tolerable, acceptable..etc. 

4. ‘She is a smart girl, so she tackled the problem’. Which among the following is an adjective? 

1. girl

2. smart

3. tackled

4. problem

Answer: b) smart

Explanation: The smart in the above sentence is describing the girl. So, smart is an adjective. 

5. If the adjectives modify the noun, then it is ______ 

1. pronoun

2. adverb

3. verbs

4. None of the these

Answer:  (a) pronoun

Explanation: The adjectives that modify the noun is known as pronoun. 

6. An adjective will come after or before _____ 

1. a noun

2. an adverb

3. a  verb

4. an adjective  

Answer:  (c) verb

Explanation: An adjective in a sentence will come after or before the verb.   

7. To make green tea, you can boil the water _____. Which of the following adjective can be used in the sentence. 

1. deep 

2. high

3. with kettle 

4. slightly 

Answer:  (d) slightly

Explanation: The word ‘slightly’ is the perfect adjective that suits the above sentence.  

8. An adjective in the sentence will give more information about _____ 

1. noun

2. verb

3. adverb

4. pronoun 

Answer: (a) noun 

Explanation: The adjective in the sentence will give more information about a noun in a sentence. 

9. In which among the following sentence, the verb comes between a noun and the adjective? 

1. I am a lucky girl

2. I have two luxury villas

3. The movie is boring 

4. We are going there

Answer:  c) The movie is boring 

Explanation: From the below-given option, The movie is boring is the only sentence where the verb will come between a noun and the adjective. 

10. “whose pen is this?” is an example for which of the following adjective? 

1. Descriptive adjective

2. Attributive adjective

3. Limiting adjective

4. Interrogative adjective 

Answer: d)  Interrogative adjective 

Explanation: ‘whose’ is an interrogative adjective present in the given sentence. 

Students who are interested to learn more about the adjective can attend the adjective test given above and gain more information about the adjective and types of adjectives from this article.