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# Kinds of adjectives: rules and examples

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Short answer. Each kind answers a question. Quality: what kind? Quantity: how much? Number: how many? Demonstrative: which one? Possessive: whose is it? Interrogative: asks which, what or whose.

1 . Pick the kind of adjective. We need a little salt in the dal.

2 . Pick the kind of word "Every" is. Every shop was shut on Sunday.

Each kind answers a question. Quality: what kind? Quantity: how much? Number: how many? Demonstrative: which one? Possessive: whose is it? Interrogative: asks which, what or whose.

Ask the adjective's question first, then name the kind.

Demonstrative adjectives. This, that, these and those point to a noun, so they are demonstrative. Use this and these for things near you, that and those for things far away.

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- Quality, number and quantity . Quality tells what kind. Number tells how many things you can count. Quantity tells how much of something you cannot count, like milk, rice or sugar.
- Demonstrative adjectives . This, that, these and those point to a noun, so they are demonstrative. Use this and these for things near you, that and those for things far away.
- Possessive and interrogative . My, your, his, her, its, our and their tell whose it is: possessive. Which, what and whose ask a question before a noun: interrogative.
- Point, own or pick one . Demonstrative words point: this, that, these, those. Possessive words show whose: my, your, his, her, its, our, their. Distributive words take one at a time: each, every, either, neither.
- Demonstrative and possessive . This and these are for things near, that and those for things far. My, your, his, her, its, our and their stand before a noun and show who owns it.
- Ask the adjective's question first, then name the kind.
- Point: demonstrative. Whose: possessive. One at a time: distributive.

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