What is an adjective?
An adjective describes a noun.
In English, adjectives are placed before the noun to make a phrase; in most other languages they follow the noun.
In English, adjectives do not have a plural form; in other language they must
match their noun in number (sing./plur.) and gender (masculine/feminine).
However, English does have two adjectives which have a different form when they
describe plural nouns, these are the
Demonstrative adjectives: this and that,
which have plural forms these and those.
Possessive adjectives come in two forms: my, your,
his, her, its, our, their if they are put in front of
a noun; but if they are separated from their noun, the forms are : mine,
yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
For example: "That is my book, this is your book." is
correct. "That book is mine, this one is yours." is
also correct.
Read this short paragraph and see how many adjectives you can find:
| At first she was amused by her strange situation, but before long she was tired of living in a dirty, sooty forge; she missed the snowy heights of Olympus. She resented her unattractive and crippled husband and their loveless marriage. Soon she fell in love with the handsome Ares, but his power was overcome by that inventive mind which Hephaistos possessed. |