Definite Numeral Adjective

                Definite numeral adjectives are those adjectives which clearly show the exact number of nouns or its order.

For example:

·         One, two, three, four, twenty, thirty three, etc are known as cardinals.

·         First, second, third, fourth, seventh, tenth, etc are known as ordinals.

I saw two people playing football.

It was tenth football match in the city.

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Demonstrative Adjectives

                Demonstrative adjectives are used when there is a need to point specific things. The adjectives function as a way to demonstrate something and are similar to demonstrative pronouns. Here words such as this, that, these, those and what are used. Take, for instance, the sentence: 'If I hear that sound again, I will call the Police'. Here 'that' refers to a specific sound. Other examples are as follows:

    Whose is this bag?

    These mangoes are sour.

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Demonstrative Pronouns

        A demonstrative pronoun is used to point to something specific within a sentence. These pronouns can indicate items in space or time, and they can be either singular or plural.

           Demonstrative pronouns can be either near or far in distance or time:

Near in time or distance: this, these

Far in time or distance: that, those

Rules: Demonstrative pronouns always identify nouns, whether those nouns are named specifically or not.

For example: “I can’t believe this.” We have no idea what “this” is, but it’s definitely something the writer cannot believe. It exists, even though we don’t know what it is.

Demonstrative pronouns are usually used to describe animals, places, or things; however they can be used to describe people when the person is identified, for example: “This sounds like Mary singing.”

• This was my mother’s ring.
• That looks like the car I used to drive.
• These are nice shoes, but they look uncomfortable.
• Those look like riper than the apples on my tree.

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Denotation

        The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.

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Descriptive Adjectives Or Adjective Of Quality

          Descriptive adjectives are those adjectives which describe nouns or the noun phrases. For example: 'A beautiful day'. In this case, 'beautiful' is the adjective which qualifies or describes the noun 'day'. Descriptive adjectives have several forms as discussed below.

• ·         Colors as adjectives: Black, Blue, White, Green, etc.
• ·         Touch as adjective: Slippery, Sticky, etc.
• ·         Feelings as adjectives: Happy, Sad, Angry, etc.
• ·         Sizes as adjectives: Big, Small, Thin, Thick, etc.
• ·         Origin as adjectives: European, Latin, Greek, etc.
• ·         Shapes as adjectives: Triangular, Rectangular, Square, Circular, etc.
• ·         Qualities as adjectives: Good, Bad, Average, etc.
• ·         Time as adjective: Yearly, Monthly, etc.
• ·         Age as adjectives: Young, Ancient, Old, etc.
• ·         Material as adjectives: Wood, Cotton, Gold, etc.
• ·         Opinions as adjectives: Pretty, hot, expensive, etc.

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Discourse analysis

          The use of language in a running discourse, continued over a number of sentences, and involving the interaction of speaker (or writer) and auditor (or reader) in a specific situational context, and within a framework of social and cultural conventions.

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Distributive Numeral Adjective

           Distributive numeral adjectives are those adjectives which followed by a singular noun and a singular verb. However, sometimes there is use of a plural noun and a singular verb by using each of, either of, every one of, and neither of.

    Each leg has four fingers and one toe.

    Every child need care and love.

    Either method is wrong.

    Neither method is correct.

    Either of the methods is wrong.

    Neither of the methods is correct.

Rules/tips to be followed while using Numeral Adjective

Following are some rules and tips of using numeral adjectives in the sentence:

Hyphen is used between the two or more adjectives when they come before noun and act as single idea. Hyphen is also used when a number and a measurement unit comes together and form an adjective.

For examples:

A 24-inch monitor is not fit for my desk.

Nurses generally work for 12-hour

It is not necessary to use hyphen when measurements do not act as adjectives, such as:

            She won the race by 2

            He got tired after twelve

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