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The verb ' to adject' means ' to add to'. Its derivative 'adjective' is a common grammatical term. The dictionary definition of adjective reads as follows:
Additional, not standing by itself, dependant.
It is used in legal parlance to refer to subsidiary parts of the law and procedure. In grammatical terminology it is the name of an attribute or quality of a noun. The Latin root 'adicere' means to lay or put near. The link between the noun and its associated adjectives is a strong one. Commonly it is to be found in front of the noun or between the article and its noun.
There are three sorts of adjectives;
Adjectives of QUALITY answer the question 'What kind of?' e.g. A puppy may be playful, naughty, tired, black or Dalmation.
Adjectives of QUANTITY answer the questions, 'How much?' or 'How many?'. In asking how many children keep pets, the following adjectives could qualify the noun 'children' or 'child'; both, all, many, some, one, second, thirty-six.
Adjectives of DISTINCTION answer the question, 'Which?' Or 'What?'. They may be;
DEMONSTRATIVE as in this bottle, that chair, these people or those houses.
POSSESSIVE, answering the question. 'Whose?' As in my pencil, your bicycle, his elbow, her football, our family, their garden, its eyes.
Others are INTERROGATIVE and are used to ask the questions e.g.
Whose tie is this? What address shall I write? Which picture is yours?
It is always worth recalling that an adjective never stands alone without the noun that it qualifies. Many of the examples above may, in some sentences, stand as pronouns.
