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Communication Skills-II

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Example: 1. He met two ladies yesterday.
2. I need several envelopes and some paper.
Demonstrative adjectives point out nouns and are followed by the nouns which they point
out.

Example: 1. this house
2. those people

interrogative adjectives ask questions and come before a noun.

Example: 1. Which door _____ ?
2. Whose shoes ____ ?

Indefinite Adjectives

An indefinite adjective is similar to an indefinite pronoun, except that it modifies a noun,
pronoun, or noun phrase, as in the following sentences.

Example: Many people believe that corporations are under-taxed.

The indefinite adjective “many” modifies the noun “people” and the noun phrase “many
people” is the subject of the sentence.
I will send you any mail that arrives after you have moved to Shivnagar.
The indefinite adjective “any” modifies the noun “mail” and the noun phrase “any mail” is
the direct object of the compound verb “will send.”
They found a few goldfish floating belly up in the swan pound.
In this example the indefinite adjective modifies the noun “goldfish” and the noun phrase
is the direct object of the verb “found”.

Degrees and their formation
We even have a name for each of these forms of degree: positive, comparative, and superlative. Let’s
meet the whole gang.
Positive degree: The base form of the adjective or adverb. It does not show comparison.
Comparative degree: The form an adjective or adverb takes to compare two things.

Superlative degree: The form an adjective or adverb takes to compare three or more things.

table 10.1: comparative levels of adjectives and adverbs
Part of speech Positive comparative superlative
Adjective low lower lowest
Adjective big bigger biggest
Adjective fat fatter fattest
Adverb highly more highly most highly
Adverb widely more widely most widely
Adverb easily more easily most easily

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