Descriptive Adjective

Descriptive Adjective

Adjectives modify nouns, pronouns, and groups of words functioning as nouns. Adjective answers the questions What kind?, Which ones?, or How many?

For an example, let's say that you have a car and you want to tell a friend that it is red and that it is new.
In a sentence that might look like: My new, red car is parked in the driveway.

Each adjective tells your friend something more about the car. Or in grammar terms- the adjectives new and red are modifying the noun car:
NEW car
RED car

What about MY? In the noun phrase my new red car, My is a determiner that tells whose car this is. My is in the "possessive" category.

What if you said, "My new, red car is awesome!"
Is awesome used as an adjective? Sort of, but no, awesome is used as a predicate adjective.

Descriptive adjectives describe the noun.

Examples of descriptive adjectives [in bold]:

yellow banana, tall pole, wide door, deep ditch, flowing river, honest man, stormy sky

 

The suffixes below, when added to a word, will make that word into an adjective.

A Few Suffixes and Their Meanings

Suffixes	Source	Meaning	Example
-able -ible	from -abilis (Latin)	means-that can be	portable, audible
-al	from -alis (Latin)	means of, like, having the nature of	ornamental
-ate	from atus (Latin)	means of or having to do with	colligate
-ful	from -ful (Old English)	means full of	playful
-ive	from -ivus (Latin)	means of or having to do with	massive
-ous	from osus (Latin)	means full of	joyous

Here's a list of common adjective endings (suffixes)

-able, -al, -ant, -ary, -ative, -ory, -ed, -en, -ent, -ful, -ic, -ish, -ive, -less, -ous, -some, -y

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