What is Adjective?

 3. ADJECTIVE

The word Adjective comes from Late Latin adiectivus means to add to . It is a part of speech that modifies a noun , a pronoun or other substantive by describing , qualifying , quantifying or specifying words . Thus , it is called a modifier .

 Moreover , it gives more information about what the Noun or Pronoun refers to . It is distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes , such as -able , -ous , -er , and -est , or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun , a nominal phrase or a pronoun .

 Examples

*He is a timid baby .

*I have a red pencil .

*Most monkeys are arboreal creatures

*I saw six sheep grazing in the meadow .

*Mrs. Aslam papered her kitchen walls with lovely wall paper .

In the above sentences , the italicized words are Adjectives .

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