Tipos de Adjetivos

Study Notes

Types of Adjectives

Descriptive Adjectives: These adjectives describe or modify nouns or pronouns by providing details about their qualities, characteristics, or attributes.
- Examples: big, red, happy, intelligent, beautiful, delicious.
- Function: To paint a picture for the reader, revealing more about the subject.
Limiting Adjectives: These adjectives specify or limit the noun or pronoun's meaning, helping to narrow the reader's focus.
- Articles: (a, an, the) These are the most common limiting adjectives.
  - a/an: Used for singular, countable nouns that are not specified.
  - the: Used for singular, countable nouns that are identifiable, or general classes of things.
- Demonstrative Adjectives: (this, that, these, those) These point out specific things either near or far.
- Interrogative Adjectives: (which, what, whose) Used to ask questions about a noun or pronoun.
- Possessive Adjectives: (my, your, his, her, its, our, their) Show ownership or possession.
- Numerical Adjectives: (one, two, first, second) Express quantity or order.
- Distributive Adjectives: (each, every, either, neither) Refer to every member of a group without singularity, used frequently when specifying part of a whole.

Degrees of Adjectives

Positive Degree: This is the basic form of the adjective, describing a quality in a neutral way. (e.g., big, tall, smart)
Comparative Degree: This form compares two things, showing that one has more or less of a quality than the other. Typically formed by adding -er (e.g., bigger, taller, smarter) or using the word "more" (e.g., more beautiful, more intelligent).
Superlative Degree: This compares three or more things showing that one has the highest or lowest quality. Typically formed by adding -est (e.g., biggest, tallest, smartest) or using the word "most" (e.g., most beautiful, most intelligent)

Adjective Placement

Adjectives usually come before the noun they modify.
- Examples: a red apple, a happy child, a big house.
However, there are exceptions, where the adjective might be placed after the noun.
- When describing a noun in a phrase, especially in the case of many nouns that involve a concept or idea (e.g. "a book of such significance").
- When used to express a degree of the noun, these adjectives often follow the noun, such as in the case of expressions like "the man tall for his age."

Different Types of Comparisons

Comparison of Equality: Uses the word "as" followed by an adjective then "as". (e.g., The car is as fast as the bike.)
Comparison of Inequality: Uses words like "more," "less," or "fewer" to indicate that there is a difference in quality between two subjects (e.g., The dog is more playful than the cat.)

Compound Adjectives

Compound adjectives are formed by joining two or more words together to form a single descriptive word used with a noun (e.g. "a long-distance runner").
These adjectives often describe nouns relating to a number of different characteristics, be they size, shape, or method of manufacture, among other topics.

Articles (a, an, the) as Adjectives

These are considered special type of limiting adjectives and are critical to grammatical correctness and sentence structure.
"a" and "an" are used for singular, countable nouns.
"the" is used for nouns that are already specified. They are often used to specify an individual thing or group or particular instance.

Description

Descubra os diferentes tipos de adjetivos, como descritivos e limitadores, que ajudam a descrever e especificar substantivos e pronomes. Aprenda através de exemplos e funções de cada tipo para aprimorar sua escrita.