Adjectives for Children

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• Types of adjectives
• Adjectives
• Explanatory adjectives
• Gentile adjectives
• Numeral adjectives
• Pronominal adjectives

Adjectives are words that are used to give information about nouns (people, things, places, or animals).

For example: The ball green. In this example, ball is the noun (the thing) and green It is a qualifying adjective that serves to give information about the ball.

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Types of adjectives

There are many types of adjectives.

1. Adjectives. They are adjectives that qualify, add or subtract value to the noun. For example: House old woman.
2. Explanatory adjectives. They are adjectives that highlight the qualities of nouns and are generally placed before the noun. For example: big hills.
3. Gentile adjectives. They are adjectives that serve to indicate the origin of someone or something. Unlike nouns, adjectives are not capitalized. For example: citizen Albanian ("Albania" is a proper noun and is capitalized, but Albanian is a gentilicio adjective and is written with a lower case)
4. Numeral adjectives. They are the adjectives that indicate a numerical quantity. They can be subclassified into: cardinals, ordinals, multiples and partitives. For example: two, half, double, third.
5. Pronominal adjectives. They may be:

• • Demonstrative adjectives. They are adjectives that serve to indicate the relationship of proximity or distance with something. For example: that House, that man.
  • Possessive adjectives. They are adjectives that indicate who something belongs to. For example: loved mine, our sons.
  • Indefinite adjectives. They are adjectives that give information but not with precise data. For example: no boy, any time.

Adjectives

• More in: Qualifying adjectives

Explanatory adjectives

• More in: Explanatory adjectives

Gentile adjectives

• More in: Gentilices

Numeral adjectives

• More in: Numeral adjectives

Pronominal adjectives

More in:

• Demonstrative adjectives
• Possessive adjectives
• Undefined adjectives