What are Proper Adjectives?

What are Proper Adjectives?

Proper Adjectives are adjectives formed from proper nouns. They create descriptive words like European, Swiss, American, Korean, Christian, Islamic, Shakespearean, Northwestern, and others.

Examples:

"I have always loved to eat Korean foods."

“Foods” is a noun described by the proper adjective “Korean”, indicating that the foods I love to eat are from or originate in Korea.

"Atina has an American beauty."

“Beauty” is a noun described by the adjective “American”, telling us that Atina’s beauty is of the American type.

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