Adjective showing the kind or quality of nouns or pronouns is called Adjective of

Quality.
Examples :

He is a nice boy.
Lucy has a white cow.
Sumi is an intelligent boy.
It is a heavy box.
Sneha is a smart girl.
Bangalore is a garden city.
New York is a beautiful city.
Their good performance gave them what they expected.
Mr. Antonio is an honest policeman.
Our Chairman is an old man.
The big temple might have been constructed a long time back.
Their excellent presentation bagged them the first prize.

1. Adjectives of Quality - These adjectives are used to describe the nature of a

noun. They give an idea about the characteristics of the noun by answering the
question what kind.
Honest, Kind, Large, Bulky, Beautiful, Ugly etc.

New Delhi is a large city with many historical monuments.

Sheila is a beautiful woman.
2. Adjectives of Quantity - These adjectives help to show the amount or the
approximate amount of the noun or pronoun. These adjectives do not provide exact
numbers; rather they tell us the amount of the noun in relative or whole terms.
All, Half, Many, Few, Little, No, Enough, Great etc.
They have finished most of the rice.
Many people came to visit the fair.

Adjectives of Quality Exercise

Fill each blank with adjectives of quality

in the following sentences :
(good, ripe, fine, sweet, small, big,
bright, red)
1. The girl has a
voice.
2. Akbar is a

batsman.

3. That is a

house

4. I like

roses.

5. It is a

day.

6. You may eat

mangoes.

7. Owis eat rats and

8. The milk is not

birds.
.

Fill each blank with adjectives of quality

in the following sentences :
(good, ripe, fine, sweet, small, big,
bright, red)
1. The girl has a
voice.
2. Akbar is a

batsman.

3. That is a

house

4. I like

roses.

5. It is a

day.

6. You may eat

mangoes.

7. Owis eat rats and

8. The milk is not

birds.
.

Adjectives Exercise on Story

Write out the story, putting one of
the adjectives from the list in each
blank :
(long, delightful, high, sour, ripe,
warm, hungry)
It was a
day. A fox had just entered a
garden. Among the many

things in the

garden was a vine laden with bunches of

grapes. One of them was a
bunch
which hung invitingly over the foxs head.
The very sight of it made the fox feel
.
He leapt up at the grapes several times. But

they were too

for him to reach. After a

time he decided to give up trying. He

went away declaring that the grapes
were
. This is the origin of the
expression sour grapes.
Adjectives Exercise on Story
Write out the story, putting one of
the adjectives from the list in each
blank :
(long, delightful, high, sour, ripe,
warm, hungry)
It was a
day. A fox had just entered a
garden. Among the many

things in the

garden was a vine laden with bunches of

grapes. One of them was a
bunch which

hung invitingly over the foxs head. The

very sight of it made the fox feel
. He
leapt up at the grapes several times. But
they were too
for him to reach. After a
time he decided to give up trying. He
went away declaring that the grapes
were
. This is the origin of the
expression sour grapes.