Adjective

Adjectives are words that modify (add description to) nouns and (occasionally) pronouns. They can be a part of either the subject or the predicate. Common adjectives are red, blue, fast, slow, big, tall, and wide.

An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies. In the following examples, the highlighted words are adjectives:

• Large trees could be seen.
• They are happy.

In the preceding examples, the adjective large modifies the noun trees, and the adjective happy modifies the pronoun they.

Grammarians also consider articles ("the," "a," "an") to be adjectives.

Position of adjective

• His excellent novel.
• His novel is  excellent.

Many adjectives can be used either before the noun they describe, or following the noun and a linking verb such as  be, become, feel  and  seem  that connects a subject with a word or phrase that describes the subject.

The following adjectives can be used immediately after a noun:

1. many participle adjectives:

• There'll be a lot of people waiting eagerly to get hold of it. (= a lot of people who will be waiting)
• Some of the geographical settings used in A Woman Alone  are based on places I visited. (=  settings which are used in  A Woman Alone)

2. adjectives used after indefinite pronouns (e.g.  something nothing):

• I really don't think it was  anything special.
• There was nothing extraordinary about my first novel.