Other Categories of Adjectives

Other Categories of Adjectives

Proper Adjectives

Proper Adjectives are formed from proper nouns to create descriptive words such as European, Swiss, American, Korean, Christian, Islamic, Shakespearean, Northwestern, etc.

Examples:

"I have always loved to eat Korean foods."

“Foods” is a noun described by the proper adjective “Korean”, indicating the foods come from Korea.

"Atina has an American beauty."

“Beauty” is a noun described by “American”, showing the type of beauty.

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Compound Adjectives

Compound Adjectives are created from two or more words working together to describe the same noun. They are often joined with hyphens, such as sugar-free, record-breaking, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, etc.

Examples:

"This soda is sugar-free."

"The show was mind-blowing."

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Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative Adjectives specify what is referred to—whether singular or plural—and give information about proximity to the speaker. Though they share forms with demonstrative pronouns, demonstrative adjectives can be identified by their placement before nouns they modify.

Demonstrative adjectives include: this, that, these, those.

Examples:

"This book is informative."

"Those flowers are beautiful."

In both sentences, “this” and “those” modify the nouns “book” and “flowers”, confirming they are demonstrative adjectives rather than pronouns.

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Interrogative Adjectives

Interrogative Adjectives are like interrogative pronouns but are placed before nouns they modify to ask questions about something.

Common interrogative adjectives include: what, which, whose.

Examples:

"Whose bag is this?"

"Which pair of shoes do you like?"

Here, “whose” and “which” are interrogative adjectives because they modify the nouns “bag” and “pair of shoes”.