Descriptive adjectives express qualities or attributes of a noun.

These attributes may be colors, sizes, shapes, personality traits, time related, sound related, touch related, and taste related.

Examples:

orange palette

grumpy man

morning show

Predicate adjectives follow a linking verb and describe the subject of the sentence, which can either be a noun or pronoun.

Examples:

It was very violent.

They were frightened.

The articles a, an, and the make up a special group of adjectives.

Examples:

The shock was felt all throughout the town.

A handful of survivors emerged from the ruins.

There was an unexpected call from the rubble, giving hope to the engineers and rescuers.

Proper adjectives are proper nouns used as adjectives or adjectives formed from proper nouns by adding suffixes like -an, -ish, -ese, -ic, and -ian.

Examples:

American literature

Chinese noodles

Japanese cuisine

English pastor

Limiting adjectives include number words and demonstratives such as this, that, these, and those.

Examples:

two days

tenth month

this store

these calamities

Derived adjectives are adjectives formed by adding affixes to the root word.

Examples:

sun - sunny

dream - dreamy

honest - dishonest

credit - accredited