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Adjectives

Adding adverbs on top of an adjective

Adjective types

Demonstrative adjectives

Possessive adjectives

Questioning or interrogative adjectives

Indefinite adjectives

The degree of an adjective

Comparative and superlative degree for multi-syllable adjectives

Talking about quantities and amounts

The opposite of an adjective

Other ways to form the opposites of adjectives

Difference between ed and ing at the end of an adjective

Collective adjectives

Ordering multiple adjectives correctly

Articles determiners and quantifiers

Articles

Quantifiers

Predeterminers

Demonstrative adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives are what you might use when you’re in a shop with a friend buying some new clothes. After looking at a few shirts you might say something like this to your friend:

I like this shirt, but you like that shirt better don’t you?

Probably this sentence would be accompanied by you pointing at the shirt that you like and then at the shirt that you think your friend likes - that’s why they’re demonstrative adjectives. Other demonstrative adjectives include ‘those’ and ‘these’.

These words are adjectives because they tell you extra information about the nouns in a sentence. You don’t just like any random shirt, you like ‘this’ one.

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