ADJECTIVES - A NEW APPROACH

 ADJECTIVE 

Is a word that describes quality of a noun, placing before or placing after a ‘be’ form verb. 

“She is a BEAUTIFUL girl"

“She is BEAUTIFUL"

BEAUTIFUL is an adjective here. It is describing the girl's quality.

First one is ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVE and the second one is PREDICATE ADJECTIVE.

Another one position is there, that is called POST POSITIVE POSITION.

"Kamarajar THE GREAT was genius and honest in politics"

This position is used rarely in the language. (Likely all adjectival subordinate clauses are known as this position.) 

Anyway, an adjective can function in three positions.

Attributive position - placing before a noun.

Predicate position - placing after a 'be' form verb in pure present or past tense. 

Post positive position – after a noun and before a verb

‘ATTRIBUTIVE’ position, this is very important.

SMART BOY

MINI SKIRT 

ROYAL FAMILY

INTELLIGENT PERSON

POOR MAN

RICH WOMAN

CRITICAL STATUS

FREQUENT ABILITY

TOUGH QUESTION

EXAMINATION HALL

HALL SUPERVISOR

SUPERVISOR ROLE

GOOD BOOK 

BOOK STALL 

STALL ITEMS

RUNNING RACE

RACE CAR

CAR DRIVER

DRIVER DUTY

DUTY DOCTOR

DOCTOR'S ROOM

ROOM MATE 

SPOKEN ENGLISH

ENGLISH TEACHER

TEACHER JOB

JOB SEEKER

DRIVING LICENCE

LICENCE HOLDER

Of these, the first word in each is ADJECTIVE. It describes the status or quality of the second word that is noun. 

As the adjective in each set is placed before the noun, it is called ATTRIBUTIVE POSITION.

Many varieties are there in this position. 

1. Standard adjective

2. Noun adjective

3. Past participle adjective

4. Present participle adjective

5. Definite/Demonstrative adjective

6. Indefinite adjective

7. Possessive adjective

1. Standard Adjective means, a stamped mark adjective. Only this is called ADJECTIVE in the parts of speech whereas other types belong to other parts of speech.

This type adjective ends in ...al,.....ive, .......ous, ......nt, .....full.

NATURAL scene

ACTIVE person

MISCELLANEOUS file

CONSTANT idea

BEAUTIFUL bungalow

The feature of this type of adjective is that, only it can be used in ATTRIBUTIVE and PREDICATE positions whereas other types cannot be used.

2. Noun adjective means that a noun can describe a noun adjacently.

ENGLISH teacher

ROOM mate

CLASS room

ELECTION booth 

(See a noun describes a noun, it’s also called an attributive noun)

3. Past participle adjective means that a past participle form of verb can describe the quality of a noun.

SPOKEN English

BROKEN pieces

CLOSED file

SENTENCED accused

RESERVED seat

4. Present participle adjective means that a present participle form of a verb can be an adjective.

SPEAKING toy

RUNNING race

SWIMMING pool

SMOKING room

LISTENING skills

DRIVING license

5. Definite or Demonstrative adjective means that some definite pronouns can be an adjective.

THAT boy

THESE persons

THOSE students

THIS guy

SUCH matter

6. Indefinite adjective means that some indefinite pronouns can be an adjective.

SOME boys

A FEW members

ANY person

ALL participants

MANY voters

7. Possessive adjective means that some possessive nouns/pronouns can be an adjective.

COLLECTOR'S bungalow

PETER'S purse, PEOPLE'S money, MY name, OUR village, 

YOUR country, HIS idea, HER hair, ITS tail, THEIR team

(MY OUR YOUR HIS HER ITS THERE ARE also called possessive adjectives)

Note: Other positions can carry only standard adjectives.

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