What is Adjective? An adjective is a word which modifies a noun, that is, shows or po ints out some distinguishing mark or feature of the noun. List of Descriptive Adjectives Descriptive adjectives can be divided into different categories such as colors, sizes, sound, taste, touch, shapes, qualities, time, personality and ages. Colors are adjectives : black, blue, w hite, green, red Sizes : big, small, large, thin, thick Shapes: triangular, round, square, circularQualities: good, bad, mediocre Personality : happy, sad, angry, depressed Time : Yearly , monthly, annually Ages : new, young, old, b rand-new, second-hand Sound related Adjectives : loud, noisy, quiet, silent Touch related Adjectives t: slippery, sticky Taste related Adjectives : juicy, sweet (* Exercise 1-3: Find the adjective) Attributive and Predicative Adjectives Most adjectives can occur both before and after a noun: the blue sea ~ the sea is blue the oldman ~ the man is oldhappychi ldr en ~ t he chi ldr en are happyAdjectives in the first position - before the noun - are called ATTRIBUTIVE adjectives. Those in the second position - after the noun - are called PREDICATIVE adjectives. Notice that predicative adjectives do not occurimmediatelyafter the noun. A predicate adjective modifies the subject of the sentence. In the sentence “The flowers are blue,” the subject is “the flowers.” In this example, “blue” is what modifies the subject, “the flowers,” and is connected to the subject by what is known as a linking verb.
