Adjectives answer questions about nouns, which are frequently the subject of sentences. Examples of these questions include: Which one? How many? What color? What size? An example of an adjective answering one of these questions is: The brown rabbit jumped. In this instance, the adjective is modifying the noun (rabbit) by answering the question: What color?
The form of an adjective remains the same, regardless of whether the noun it is modifying is singular or plural. Likewise, the form remains the same whether the noun is the subject of a sentence or simply an object.
Adjectives can be used to give factual information or opinions about the nouns they modify. Examples of adjectives being used to describe facts can include information about age, size or temperature. Adjectives based on opinion include things like, great, awful or enjoyable.
Adjectives come in a variety of types, including:
Demonstrative - e.g., those, these, this, that
Numeric - e.g., six, 15 , 1,000, 70
Possessive - e.g., his, my, your, their
Interrogative - e.g., what, whose, which
Qualitative - e.g., large, loud, sweet
Quantitative - e.g., half, some, more, less
Articles, such as: A, an and the, are also adjectives. Likewise, the possessives your, their, mine, and our, are also considered adjectives.