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Fill in the blanks with appropriate words that describe the pictures.

Boy Blue Old Day Round Happy Field Evening Neat

A mirror A room An man A ball

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Fill in the blanks with appropriate words that describe the pictures.

Boy Blue Old Day Round Happy Field Evening Neat

A round mirror A neat room An old man A blue ball

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 What kind of words are used to fill

in the blanks and what are they
known as?

 What details do the describing words give

about the person/object in the picture?

 What is the other name for

describing words?
Underline the Adjectives in the sentences given below

• I HAVE PURPLE GLASSES.

• I HAVE FLORAL PANTS .
• I AM WEARING A PINK , BLACK AND WHITE STRIPED DRESS.
• I HAVE TWO HANDS .
• I HAVE BROWNISH SKIN.
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 What kind of words are used to fill in the blanks and

what are they known as?
The words used give details about the picture or
describe the word in the picture. Such words are
called describing words.
 What details do the describing words give about the
person/object in the picture?
The describing words talk about the colour, shape or
quality of the object or person.
 What is the other name for describing words?
Describing words are also known as adjectives.
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Adjectives

Adjectives are words that describe a noun or a

pronoun.
They give more information about a noun or
pronoun and add more details to it.

For example: Girl and intelligent girl

Girl is a noun. Intelligent is an adjective.
'Intelligent' describes the noun 'girl.'
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Read the given sentences. Underline the

adjectives.

 I have a brown puppy.

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Read the given sentences. Underline the

adjectives.

 I have a brown puppy.

I have a brown puppy.

 It was a tough test.

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Read the given sentences. Underline the

adjectives.

 It was a tough test.

It was a tough test.

 The girl has big eyes.

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Read the given sentences. Underline the

adjectives.

 The girl has big eyes.

The girl has big eyes.

 The child was carrying a heavy bag.

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Read the given sentences. Underline the

adjectives.

 The child was carrying a heavy bag.

The child was carrying a heavy bag.
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Type of adjectives

Descriptive adjectives

Adjectives which show the quality or

kind of a noun or pronoun are called
descriptive adjectives.
They answer the question “what kind” of noun.

For example: Look at the blue sea.

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Type of adjectives

Quantitative adjectives

Quantitative adjectives denote the quantity.

They answer the question “how many.”
Some examples are all, no, some, few, many,
any, each, every, either, whole, sufficient,
most, none and little. Numbers also belong to
this type of adjectives.

For example: All students are

present today.
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Type of adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives are used

to identify the relative position of a
noun.
It answers the question “which ones.”

For example: This book is interesting.

In a sentence, the demonstrative adjective
comes before a noun or pronoun.
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Type of adjectives

Proper adjectives
Adjectives derived from proper nouns are called proper
adjectives. Proper adjectives are capitalized. They are used
to show nationality, religion, culture etc.
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For example: I love Chinese food.

Attributive adjectives
In a sentence, the adjective that come before the noun it
describes is called an attributive adjective.
For example: I saw a pretty girl.
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Type of adjectives

Predicative adjectives
In a sentence, the adjective that comes after a linking verb and
describes the subject is called a predicative adjective.
For example: The girl was pretty.
Here, “girl” is the subject and “was” is the linking verb.

Interrogative adjectives
Interrogative adjectives are question words which are used
before the noun they modify. These adjectives don’t stand
alone.
For example: Whose, which, what etc. Whose bag is it?
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Type of adjectives

Distributive adjectives
Distributive adjectives are used to refer to each and every
object or member of a group separately.
For example: Each, every, either, neither
Every student has attended the test.
Distributive adjectives are used with singular nouns and they
appear before the noun.
Possessive adjectives
Possessive adjectives indicate the possession of a noun to a
person or group of people. My, your, his, her, their, its and our
are possessive adjectives.
For example: Johnny is my pet cat.
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Type of adjectives

Comparative adjectives
Comparative adjectives are adjectives that
are used to compare to different persons or
things to each other.
For example: My sister is taller than me.

Superlative adjectives
Superlative adjectives are adjectives used to
compare more than two people or things by
indicating which one is supreme.
For example: John is the tallest boy in our class.
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Type of adjectives

Compound adjectives
Compound adjectives are those which are formed from multiple
words and are connected using hyphens.
For example: Bruno is a well-behaved dog.

Participial adjectives
Participial adjectives are based on participles which are words
ending in –ed or –ing and derived from verbs. Words like
amazing, impressed are examples.
For example: The Christmas decoration is amazing.
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Type of adjectives

Limiting adjectives

Limiting adjectives do not describe the qualities

of a noun or pronoun but they restrict a noun or
pronoun.

They overlap with other types of adjectives

like possessive and demonstrative adjectives.

For example: Don’t eat those oranges.

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 What are adjectives?

 Give two examples of adjectives.

 Name any three types of adjectives.

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 What are adjectives?

Adjectives are words that describe a noun or a pronoun.

 Give a few examples of adjectives.

The underlined words in red pen, pretty girl and new car are examples of adjectives.

 Name any three types of adjectives.

Possessive adjectives, descriptive adjectives, quantitative adjectives etc. are different types of
adjectives.
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Frame a sentence each using any of the three adjectives given.

 Strong: .

 Every: .

 First: .

 Long: .

 Pleasant: .
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Read the following sentences and fill in the blanks using the correct adjectives. Follow the
instructions given in bracket about the type of adjectives.

 is your book? (Use an interrogative adjective)

 These are shoes. (Use a possessive adjective)

 She baked a cake. (Use a descriptive adjective)

 My uncle gifted watch to me. (Use a demonstrative adjective)

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Read the following sentences and fill in the blanks using the correct adjectives. Follow the
instructions given in bracket about the type of adjectives.
 is your book? (Use an interrogative adjective)
Where is your book?
 These are shoes. (Use a possessive adjective)
These are my shoes.
 She baked a cake. (Use a descriptive adjective)
She baked a tasty cake.
 My uncle gifted watch to me. (Use a demonstrative adjective)
My uncle gifted ­this watch to me.
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