ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS

ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS

A.    Adjectives

An adjective is a word used to qualify a noun or pronoun. There are seven in numbers:

a.       Proper adjectives

b.      Adjective of quality or state

c.       Adjective of number or quantity

d.      Distributive adjective

e.       Demonstrative adjective

f.       Interrogative adjective

g.      Possesive adjective

a.       Proper adjective

This is formed from proper noun. They are always capitalized.

Example:

Ø  Indonesian language

Ø  English lesson

b.      Adjective of quality or state

This shows of quality or what state the person or thing is (clever, dry, fat, golden, wooden, good, heavy, etc.)

Example:

Ø  Agus is a diligent boy

Ø  My mother buys wooden chairs

c.       Adjective of number or quantity

This shows how many things are there or in what numeral order the thing stands. This adjective is dividen into two kinds:

1.      Definite numeral adjective

Definite numeral adjective is an adjective which shows some exact number. It has two kinds:

ü  Cardinal number: any number used in counting or in showing how many.

Example :

Ø  Tommy has two pens

Ø  We have three houses.

ü  Ordinal number: any number used to indicate order ina particular series.

Example:

Ø  He is the fourth speaker.

Ø  Anca is the first winner.

2.      Indefinite numeral adjective

Indefinite  numeral adjective is adjective which shows number or some kinds without saying precisely what the number is (all, some, no, many, few much, little, any more, several, sundry).

Example:

Ø  Many people are poor.

Ø  Few visitors come here.

d.      Distributive adjective

A distributive adjective is an adjective that refers to individually to all members of a group.

Example:

Ø  Every people have study.

Ø  Each student has a schedule.

e.       Demonstrative adjective

A demonstrative adjective is a word that shows what thing is meant. The words this, that, these and those when used as modifiers are called demonstrative adjectives, because they tell which one or which ones about the nouns they modify.

Example:

Ø  I like this book.

Ø  We saw that play.

f.       Interrogative adjective

This adjective is used to ask a question.

Example:

Ø  What time is it now?

Ø  Which language has Jones studied?

g.      Possesive adjective

This adjective is the adjective used to show the possession.

Example:

Ø  Where is your book?

Ø  This is my pen.

B.     Adverb

An adverb is a word which modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb:

Example:

Ø  Please sit here. (the adverb here modifies the verb “sit”)

Ø  She is very happy. (the adverb very modifies the adjective “happy”)

Adverbs are used to tell time (when), place (where), reason (why), manner (how), degree (how much), to what extent and frequency (how often).

Example:

Ø  They will leave soon.                 (time)

Ø  He will wait here.                      (place)

Ø  She is always late.                      (frequency)