Examples of Adjectives

Use the examples of adjectives below to help you understand adjectives a bit better. For more information on adjectives, see the adjectives page. Here we go!

Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns.

These are formed from proper nouns. They always begin with capital letters.

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

There are only three of these special types of adjectives!

a, an, the

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

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

Some adjectives don't have degrees. There is only one level of these adjectives.

Half is an example. Something cannot be more half than something else. It either is half, or it isn't.

entire	fatal	final
half	main	pregnant

Seeing 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.

Warning!

You'll see an example sentence diagram below. If you've never done any sentence diagramming before, this is probably going to look scary.

Try not to get overwhelmed. If you learn diagramming with any of my books or programs, you learn this in an easy, step-by-step way!

Adjectives can also act as predicate adjectives.

This kind of adjective only comes after a linking verb, and it describes the subject of the sentence.