Step by step grammar 3: Adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes nouns (we’ve talked about nouns in Step By Step Grammar 1) and pronouns (we will talk about pronouns in the future but to give you a rough idea these are examples of pronouns: he, she, it). E.g. White cat cat is a noun, white describes a cat, therefore is an adjective.


Words in bold in the following sentence are adjectives:


I started reading this fantastic book about a brave captain who goes on a transatlantic journey in order to win the heart of a beautiful princess.


Sometimes it also quantifies nouns and pronouns e.g. many peoplemany is an adjective. Attention: an adjective does not describe a verb (we’ve talked about verbs in Step By Step Grammar 2) or another adjective. E.g. I talk openly about my problemsopenly describes a verb talk and therefore is NOT an adjective but an adverb. We will talk about adverbs in the future. Those two parts of speech i.e. adjective and adverb often get confused.


There are different types of adjectives, but you don’t need to know about them just yet, we will probably talk about it later on when you feel a bit more comfortable with grammar and its basics.


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