Formation of Adjectives.

                                                                               

Formation of Adjectives.

Today we are going to discuss about the formation of adjectives, formation of adjective forms, formation of adjectives with suffixes, formation of adjective list and much more..

Before we start this lesson lets recount what we have learnt so far about adjectives.

1.       Adjective definition or what is an adjective?

Answer: an adjective is a describing word that describes a noun in many ways. An adjective can tell us the quality of a noun; such as in healthy baby the word healthy is telling us the quality of the noun that is baby. An adjective can tell us the number of a noun, such as in five girls, the adjective five  is telling us the number of the noun girl, an adjective can tell us the quantity of a noun such as in the phrase no sense , the adjective no is telling us the quantity of the noun sense; and many more. Just know that an adjective is a word that describes a noun somehow.  

2.       What are the Various Kinds of Adjectives?

Answer: Roughly following are the examples of adjectives.

1.    Adjectives of Quality: An adjective of quality shows us the kind or quality of a person or thing.

Delhi is a big city.

Neha is a beautiful girl.

Bajrang is a strong boy.

The old car was sold.

All the underlined adjectives are adjectives of quality.

2.    Adjective of quantity: An adjective of quantity tells how much a thing is meant..

 She had no knowledge about this incident.

Show some evidence that you are innocent.

He hadn’t any idea.

A lot of risk is involved in the whole rescue operation.

All the underlined adjectives above are adjectives of quantity.

                                     
                                                            

3.    Adjective of number or numeral Adjectives. These adjectives show how many persons or things are meant.

A hand has five fingers

A dog has four legs.

There are many stars in the sky.

He is the first boy of his class.

There are twenty baskets in the cart.

Find out the next step.

Most kids like watching cartoons.

All the underlined adjectives above are adjectives of numbers.

·       Some adjectives show definite numbers such as five, four and twenty from the above examples. Since five or four is cardinal number, they are called, “Definite Cardinal Numeral adjectives.”

·       Some adjectives show number but they are not definite, such as many and most from the above examples. They are called, “Indefinite Numeral adjectives.”

·       Some adjectives show the number of a person or thing in an order, such as first and next from the above examples. Since first or next are ordinal in nature, They are called “Ordinal Definite Numeral Adjectives.”

4.    Demonstrative Adjectives: Demonstrating means pointing out which person or thing is beng talked about. It involves some kinds of body gesture like pointing with finger or eye movements or something like that.

That tower is of Airtel.

This girl is a good singer.

These mangoes are of my friend’s garden.

Those travelers are from Viena.

·  ***     Please Note that there are only two demonstrative adjectives which are this and that and their plural are these and those respectively. This and That are only adjectives in the entire English language which can be transformed into plural.

5.    Interrogative adjective: An interrogative adjective is is a question word likes ‘what’, ‘which’ etc, functioning as an adjective. These adjectives always form a question.

What sort of help you ask for?

Which method did you adopt to solve this problem?

The underlined words above are examples of Interrogative adjectives.

These are Interrogative adjectives.

                                                         
                                                            

Formation of adjectives; our topic today.

1.    Formation of adjective from noun. Adjectives can be formed from nouns. See the examples below.

Nouns                Adjectives

Fool                       Foolish

Beauty                  Beautiful

Trouble                 Troublesome

Gold                      Golden

Sense                    Senseless

Hope                     Hopeful

Dirt                        Dirty

Storm                    Stormy

Cloud                     Cloudy

King                        Kingly

2.    Formation of Adjectives from Verbs; Some Adjectives are formed from verbs, See the examples below.

Verbs                              Adjectives

Tire                                   Tireless

Talk                                   Talkative

Cease                                Ceaseless

Move                                Movable

Port                                    Portable

Forget                                Forgettable

3.    Formation of adjective from other adjectives; some adjectives can be formed from other adjectives. See the examples below.

Adjectives                        Adjectives

Tragic                                 Tragical

Whole                                Wholesome

Three                                  Threefold

Black                                   Blackish

White                                  Whitish

Thank You for being with us. On our Next class we are going to conduct an Adjective Test of 20 marks. Wish you to take it.

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