MB Glossary

An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun, providing more information about its qualities, quantity, size, color, shape, or other attributes.

Examples

• Big house (describes size)

• Red apple (describes color)

• Three cats (describes quantity)

• Happy child (describes emotion)

Key Functions

• Attributive: Before the noun (e.g., beautiful flower)

• Predicative: After a linking verb (e.g., The flower is beautiful)

• Types: Descriptive (e.g., tall), quantitative (e.g., many), demonstrative (e.g., this), possessive (e.g., my), interrogative (e.g., which)

Adjectives typically answer: What kind? How many? Which one? How much?