Adjectives-English Grammar

An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. (By "noun" we include pronouns and noun phrases.)An adjective "qualifies" or "modifies" a noun (a big dog). Adjectives can be used before a noun (I like Chinese food) or after certain verbs (It is hard)

Determiners
Determiners are words like the, an, my, some. They are grammatically similar. They all come at the beginning of noun phrases, and usually we cannot use more than one determiner in the same noun phrase.

Articles:

* a, an, the

Possessives:

* my, your, his, her, our, their

Other determiners:

* each, every
* either, neither
* any, some, no
* much, many; more, most
* little, less, least
* few, fewer, fewest
* what, whatever; which, whichever
* both, half, all
* several
* enough
Adjective Order
There are 2 basic positions for adjectives:
1. before the noun
2. after certain verbs (be, become, get, seem, look, feel, sound, smell, taste)
adj. noun verb adj.
1 I like big cars.
2 My car is big.
In this lesson we look at the position of adjectives in a sentence, followed by a quiz to check your understanding: