Qualitative Adjective

 QUALITATIVE ADJECTIVES

 In English, these adjectives usually come before the nouns (objects) we intend to describe. e.g.: a nice friend, a blue jacket, an interesting film. Without the use of adjectives, actually, we lose a lot; and we may be short in expressing our emotions, opinions, and the impressions we have about a given subject. Here, we would analyze to what extent the use of adjectives (esp. adjectives of quality) is helpful in our interactive contact with the others.

Example

• Yesterday, I bought a house.

• The sentence seems formal and boring as the speaker is giving a vague idea about the house he had bought. The sentence doesn't carry a complete well-spoken idea. It is needed to make a sentence expressive, attractive and provoking, by relying on adjectives to give colorful strokes to it and present it in a beautiful painting. Now compare the first sentence with the following:

• Yesterday, I bought a big house. Here, the adjective big lends some brightness to the sentence

One sentence can bear as many adjectives as you like, provided that they don't raise misunderstanding or confuse the listener or the reader. So an appropriate organization of adjectives in a sentence is highly needed.

• Qualitative Adjectives also may be derived from nouns. Qualitative Adjectives attribute a quality to the denotation of the noun they modify:

• a big house

• a smart girl

• In the first example the adjective big is qualitative in the sense that it attributes a quality to the denotation of the head noun house-being big is a quality of a house rather than a relation between a house and something that is big or bigness.

• In the second example, even though the adjective smart is derived from the noun girl it refers to a quality rather than a relation between girl and something which is smart or smartness.