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What is Adjective | Part 11

Hello Friends, My name is Nihir Mandowara. And welcome to 11th grammar lesson.
In this lesson will discuss all the basics about Adjectives. This is the 4th part of speech from the 8 parts of speech that we are learning.
We have already discussed about the three parts of speech which are Noun, Pronoun and Verb in our previous videos.
Please check those if you haven’t already.To get most out of the video please watch it till the end.
Okay. So lets get started

Adjectives are words that describes Noun.
Now for understanding adjective, we need to revise what are Nouns. So, what exactly is a Noun.
Noun is a word that contains :
Person, Place, Thing or an Idea.

Now what are adjectives, they describe nouns. For example.
In case of Sachin. What are things or qualities that you think about sachin.
If I say, Sachin is a Good Person, or Sachin is the best cricketer, or Sachin is a clever batsmen.
Then, good, best and clever are the things that describes Sachin as a Person.

In case of TajMahal, what are the things that you think about it.
If I say, TajMahal is a beautiful place, or TajMahal is very old place, or Taj Mahal is built of white marble.
Then, beautiful, old and white are things that describes taj mahal as a Place.

In case of Ball, what are the quality or things you think about this ball.
If I say, This is a colourful ball, or This ball has six colour or This is a big ball
Then, colorful, six and big  are the things that describes a ball as a Thing

In case of Idea. What type of ideas or dreams you get.
If I say, I got a great idea or I had a scary dream or I have a funny idea.
Then, great, scary, funny are the things that describes an Idea or Dream.

So, these are the twelve words that are actually describing nouns or you can say they are giving more information about nouns
 and so, they are called adjectives.

Also, note that Nouns and Pronouns are technicaly same. Pronouns are just replacement for nouns. We have already discussed about them in our previous videos
So we can say, adjectives are the words that describes nouns and pronouns both

Now lets look into some sentence examples to make things clear.
Ram is a tall person. Here, tall is a quality that describes ram. So, its an adjective
This is a small ball. Here, with the help of small we get to know about the size of ball. So, its an adjective
Shreya has five chocolates. Here, we get to know the quantity of chocolates shreya has using ‘five’. So, its an adjective

Adjectives have three degree of comparison
Positive, Comparitive and Superlative
It is used when we need to compare things
Positive degree of adjective is used to describe, not compare
Comparative degree is used to comnpare two things and
Superlative degree is used to compare more than two things

Let me give you an example to make this degrees clear.

Ram is a tall boy. Here tall is the adjective, and we are just describing ram, we are not comparing it with anyone.
So, it’s a positive degree.

Now lets another example,
Shyam is taller than Ram. Here, taller is an adjective and we are comparing two person’s height. i.e, Shyam’s height with ram.

So, it’s a comparative degree
Divyesh is tallest among all. Here, tallest is an adjective and we are comparing three person’s height.

So, it’s a superlative degree.
Now lets go back to the chart, So, tall is a positive degree, taller is the comparative degree and tallest is the superlative degree.

Now lets look into the chart for more such examples
Remember, Positive is not for comparing any thing
Comparitive is used to compare two things and
Superlative is used to compare more than two things

Bold, Bolder, Boldest
Great, Greatest, Greatest
Warm, warmer, warmest
Good, better, best,
Bad, worse, worst
Little, less, least.

There are some rules that needs to be taken care while converting from one degree of comparison to another.
That we will look in next videos.
That’s all in this lesson for now.

Lets quickly go through  What we learnt in this lesson.
We learned about adjectives, adjectives are the words that describes a noun or pronoun.Then we discussed about degree of comparison for adjectives.
Which are positive, comparative and superlative.

That’s all for now in this video.
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