The qualifying adjectives are characterized by providing a specific quality to a noun. One way to identify them is to ask what the noun in question is like. Example: What is the bed like? The bed is large, soft, and warm.
Generally speaking, adjectives are a type of word that adds information to the noun they accompany.
In the case of qualifying adjectives, these provide characteristic features of things, people or events and provide information about their qualities.
They are part of the so-called restrictive adjectives because they restrict and limit the meaning of the noun.
Since adjectives and nouns are closely related grammatically, they must agree in gender and number.
A particular characteristic of qualifying adjectives is that they can be graduated, they can be given a certain nuance. For this operation adverbs and superlatives are used.
Types of qualifying adjectives
Qualifying adjectives describe the noun, associating it with certain characteristics.
These characteristics can refer to their size, shape, color, origin, quantity and can be concrete (perceived by the senses) or abstract (discovered by reason).
The qualifying adjectives can be divided in two ways: the specifics and the explanatory ones.
Specifics
Specifying adjectives are used to delimit a noun, to give it specific characteristics out of many possible ones.
They are necessary because they differentiate one noun from another.
Explanatory
Explanatory adjectives have the function of highlighting a proper and known quality of the noun. They are also known by the name of epithets.
14 sentences with qualifying adjectives
1- The house is large and spacious (adjective of size).
2- The earth is round (adjective of shape).
3- I like that red shirt (adjective of color).
4- Today my Italian cousin (adjective of origin) is coming.
5- Only three cans of soup remain (adjective of quantity).
6- The cold wind whips the windows (concrete adjective).
7- My brother is a free person (abstract adjective).
8- Bring me the black shoes (specific adjective).
9- The warm fire covered them (explanatory adjective)
10- The day is very cold (adverb).
11- It was a bit slow (adverb).
12- Your son is older than last year (comparative adjective).
13- That's the worst thing you could do (superlative).
14- Your story seems very sad to me (superlative).
References
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