Adjective Chapter Notes | English Olympiad for Class 2 PDF Download

Adjectives are words that describe or provide additional information about nouns. Nouns are people, places, things or animals' names. Adjectives make our sentences more interesting and help to visualise what we're saying. 

Read the following sentences:
The words big, small, happy and sad describe the nouns elephant, cat, Sarah and puppy. So they are adjectives. These are also called describing words. They tell us about the colour, shape, size, quantity and quality of something.

Examples of Adjectives

• The red apple is delicious.
• Susan has a big, teddy bear.
• The fuzzy puppy is cute.
• His black backpack is heavy.
• My pizza is too hot.
• The green leaves on the tree are beautiful. 

Types of Adjectives

There are four types of adjectives: Adjective of quality, number, demonstrative and possessive. Let's understand it further:

1. Adjectives of Quality
Adjectives of quality are used to describe how something is or what it is like.
Example: This is a beautiful flower.

It is an adjective of quality because it tells us what the flower is like - it's beautiful!
Some more examples to understand it better:

• It was a delicious cake.
• My doll is so pretty.
• The shiny carpet is so soft.

2. Adjectives of Number
Adjectives of number are used to tell how many or how much of something there is.
Example: The teacher has six colourful pens.
It is an adjective of number because it tells us how many pens are there and what kind of pens they are.
Some more examples to understand it better: 

• I have two shiny pens.
• There are six colourful balloons at the birthday party.
• Harry ate fresh and juicy pineapples in the morning.

3. Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives are used to show specific things we are talking about.
Example: Give me this book.

It is a demonstrative adjective because it tells us which book we want.
Some more examples to understand it better: 

• This comic book is very interesting. (describing the book)
• Those cupcakes are delicious. (describing the cookies)
• These roses are so pretty. (describing the flowers)

4. Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives are used to show who belongs to whom.
Example: This is my doll.
It is a possessive adjective because it tells us that the doll belongs to me.
Some more examples to understand it better:

• My father is a strong man.
• My umbrella is very colourful.
  
• Their parents bought a new car.