Simply put adjectives are descriptive words.

Adjectives are used to describe

or give information about things, ideas and people: nouns or pronouns.
For Example:

The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".)

The most common question an adjective might answer is "What kind

of...?"

The good news is that in English the form of an adjective does not change,
once you have learnt it that's it and it does not matter if the noun being
described is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object. Yay!
Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun - age, size colour
etc. (fact adjectives - can't be argued with).
Some adjectives show what somebody thinks about something or somebody nice, horrid, beautiful etc (opinion adjectives - not everyone may agree).
If you are asked questions with which, whose, what kind, or how many, you
need an adjective to be able to answer.
There are different types of adjectives in the English language:

Numeric: six, one hundred and one etc.

Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough etc.

Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc.

Possessive: my, his, their, your etc.

Interrogative: which, whose, what etc.

Demonstrative: this, that, those, these etc.

NOTE - The articles a, an, and the are a special kind of adjective called
articles, and the possessives my, our, your, and their are sometimes known
as possessive adjectives.

COLOUR
Adjectives can be used to describe colour.

Blue

Red

Green

White

For Example:

"The blue bag." or "The blue bags".

OPINION
Adjectives can be used to give your opinion about something.

Good

Pretty

Right

Wrong

For Example:

He was a silly boy. / She was a silly girl.

SIZE
Adjectives can be used to describe size.

Big

Small

Long

Tall

Short

For Example:

"The big man." or "The big woman".

AGE
Adjectives can be used to describe age.
For Example:

"He was an old man." or "She was an old woman."

SHAPE
Adjectives can be used to describe shape.

Round

Triangular

Rectangular

For Example:

"It was a square box." or "They were square boxes."

ORIGIN
Adjectives can be used to describe origin.
For Example:

"It was a German flag." or "They were German flags."

MATERIAL
Adjectives can be used to identify the material something is made of.

"A wooden cupboard." or "Wooden cupboards."

Note - In English we often change nouns into adjectives.

For Example: glass - a glass vase / metal - a metal tray etc.

DISTANCE
Adjectives can be used to describe distance.

Long

Short

Around

Start

For Example:

"She went for a long walk." or "They went for lots of long walks."

TEMPERATURE
Adjectives can be used to describe temperature.

Cold

Warm

Hot

For Example:

"It was a hot day" or "We eat ice cream on hot days."

TIME
Adjectives can be used to describe time.

Day

morning

Night

For Example:

"She had an early start."

PURPOSE
Adjectives can be used to describe purpose. (These adjectives often end with
"-ing".)
For Example:

"She gave them a sleeping bag." or "She gave them sleeping bags."

Note - Have you noticed how the adjective stays the same, whether it is
describing a masculine, feminine, singular or plural noun? Nice huh?
When using more than one adjective to modify a noun, the adjectives may be
separated by a conjunction (and) or by commas (,).
For Example:

"Her hair was long and blonde." or "She had long, blonde hair."

Note - Adjectives that go immediately before the noun are called attributive
adjectives.
Adjectives can also be used after some verbs. They do not describe the
verb, adverbs do that.
Adjectives after a verb describe the subject of the verb (usually a noun or
pronoun).
For Example:

"Lynne looks tired."

The subject (in this case Lynne) is being described as tired not the verb to
look.
There is also the adjective used to, which is such a beast that it gets its own
section.

ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

1. I bought a pair of _____ shoes.

a) Black leather
b) Leather black
2. It was a ____ car.
a) Red fast
b) Fast red
3. It's a ____ building.
a) Big round
b) Round big
4. I bought ____ knife.
a) A Swiss army
b) An army Swiss
5. It's ____ film.
a) A beautiful old
b) An old beautiful
6. He's ____ man.
a) An unfriendly rich
b) A rich unfriendly
7. It's ____ phone.
a) A mobile expensive
b) An expensive mobile
8. It's ____ village.
a) An old lovely
b) A lovely old
9. The ____ visitors were Japanese.
a) Two last
b) Last two
10. He's got ____ eyes.
a) Blue big
b) Big blue
For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from
the choices below.
1. Please can I have a clean plate? This one is very _____.

Bad

dirty

ugly

dark

2. Please put the light on. It's very ____ in here.

Weak

bad

thin

dark

3. I need some new shoes. These ones are really ___.

Full

weak

old

sad

4. I couldn't eat anything more. I'm completely ____.

Full

empty

thin

strong

5. I don't like that photo. I look really ____.

Closed

ugly

difficult

open

6. I'm quite heavy now, but when I was younger I was very ____.
Thin

short

small

high

7. Don't sit on the grass. It's still ___ because it was raining earlier
today.
Wet

low

dry

light

8. It's a very ___ story. It made me cry when I read it.

Clean

bad

sad

weak

9. It's not ____ to remember all the new words when you are learning a
language.
Slow

easy

empty

light

10. In my country, a few people are very rich, but many people are ____.
Poor

weak

low

fast