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Adjectives
Concept sheet | English Language Arts
Grade
3-6
| Secondary
1
Table of contents
- Top of page
- What Are Adjectives?
- Order of Adjectives
- Comparative & Superlative Adjectives
- Possessive & Demonstrative Adjectives
- Adjectives for Advanced Users
- For Advanced Users: Interrogative Adjectives
- For Advanced Users: Nouns & Verbs as Adjectives
- For Advanced Users: Proper Adjectives
- For Advanced Users: Compound Adjectives
- See Also
What Are Adjectives?
Adjectives do not have a plural or singular form: they always stay the same.
Only adjectives used as determiners have plural forms. They are the:
Order of Adjectives
Comparative & Superlative Adjectives
Comparative Adjectives
Comparative adjectives compare two things or people.
For example comparing two people’s age:
|
Person 1 |
Age comparison |
Person 2 |
|
Yayoi is |
older than |
Ushio. |
Superlative Adjectives
Superlative adjectives compare more than two things or people.
For example comparing one person’s age to several other people’s ages:
|
Person 1 |
Age comparison |
All other people |
|
Yayoi is |
the oldest |
artist in the group. |
Visit the Comparative & Superlative Adjectives concept sheet to learn more about them.
Possessive & Demonstrative Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives are used to indicate ownership of a noun, who it belongs to.
The possessive adjectives are:
-
my
-
his/her/its
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our
-
your
-
their
Visit the Possessive Adjectives concept sheet to learn more about them.
Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives are used to point something out or indicate the position of an object.
The demonstrative adjectives are:
-
this
-
that
-
these
-
those
Visit the Demonstrative Adjectives concept sheet to learn more about them.