ABSTRACT
Adjectives are words that describe nouns in terms of size, shape, weight, age, color, texture, and an almost infinite array of other qualities or characteristics. Adjectives help speakers and writers provide descriptive details about things, people, ideas, and concepts. Adjectives can be formed from other parts of speech including nouns and verbs. When an adjective is placed directly preceding the noun, it is an attributive adjective. When an adjective follows the verb or the predicate, it is a predicative adjective. Like all elements of grammar, the meanings of adjectives are discourse bound, and adjective choice and placement reflect such aspects of the communicative context as the speaker’s or writer’s stance, perspective, opinion, and even the status of the objects being described.
