Adjectives

What Are Quantifiers? Quantifiers are adjectives or adjectival phrases that indicate the quantity of the nouns they precede. They are also a class of determiners.  Examples:  There are two cats (noun) and five dogs (noun) available for adoption at the shelter Quantifiers Used with Countable Nouns Quantifiers used with countable nouns pertain to the number […]

One of the most important parts of speech, adjectives describe or modify nouns (persons, places, things, ideas) and pronouns (he, she, it, they, us.) Adjectives provide pertinent information about the nouns or pronouns, making content grammatically correct and they describe by answering questions like: What kind? How much/many? Which one? Adjectives are critical because they […]

Adverbs and adjectives are two distinct word classes. Both are important parts of speech in English grammar, and both are used to describe something. The key difference between them lies in what they describe. Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns. Adverbs describe verbs. In order to pinpoint the difference between adverbs and adjectives, two things require […]