Examples of Adjectives

Use these examples of adjectives to help you understand adjectives a bit better. For more information, see the adjectives page.

Quick Refresher: Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns.

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Proper Adjectives

These are formed from proper nouns.

They always begin with a capital letter.

Proper Noun	Proper Adjective
America	American
Britain	British
Canada	Canadian
China	Chinese
Christianity	Christian
France	French

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Articles

There are only three of these special types of adjectives: a, an , and the.

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Regular Comparatives and Superlatives

Most adjectives can be described in degrees. This means that something can have more or less of the adjective's quality.

Regular comparatives end in -er or start with more.

Regular superlatives end in -est or start with most.

Positive	Comparative	Superlative
ambitious	more ambitious	most ambitious
cold	colder	coldest
comfortable	more comfortable	most comfortable
dry	drier	driest
enchanting	more enchanting	most enchanting
funny	funnier	funniest
hot	hotter	hottest
organized	more organized	most organized
pretty	prettier	prettiest
radiant	more radiant	most radiant
sharp	sharper	sharpest
wavy	wavier	waviest

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Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives

These can still be given in degrees, but they don't follow the patterns listed above.

Positive	Comparative	Superlative
bad	worse	worst
good	better	best
little	less	least
many	more	most

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Adjectives That Cannot Be Comparative or Superlative

Some adjectives don't have degrees. There is only one level of these adjectives. (For example, something cannot be more half than something else. It either is half, or it isn't.)

entire	fatal	final
half	main	pregnant

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What Is an Adjective?

This little video tells you more about what an adjective is. To see more, see these English grammar lessons.

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How Do You Diagram Adjectives?

Seeing a examples of adjectives is a great way to learn what an adjective is.

Sentence diagramming can teach you what an adjective does.

Sentence diagramming is a visual way to show how the words in a sentence are related to each other.

When you see them diagrammed, it's easy to see that adjectives modify nouns and pronouns.

They go on a slanted line below the noun or pronoun that they modify.

Adjectives can also act as a predicate adjectives. This kind of adjectives only comes after a linking verb, and it describes the subject of the sentence.

You can learn more about diagramming by going to the English grammar exercise page which will take you step by step through diagramming.

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