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The interrogative adjectives which, what, and whose, together
with the nouns they modify, are commonly used to form questions.
Which
life vest?
Whose
air mattress?
In the first example above, which modifies the noun life vest.
In the second example, whose modifies the noun air mattress
and is used to indicate ownership.
Indefinite Adjectives 6
Indefinite adjectives indicate
nonspecific persons or things.
Some, each, any, many, and several are examples of indefinite
adjectives.
some girls several lockers
Indefinite Adjective Indefinite Adjective
In both of the examples above, we are not certain about the exact
number of persons or things. As adjectives, some and several
modify the nouns girls and lockers.
Numerical Adjectives 7
Numerical adjectives indicate quantity by stating
a fixed number of people or things.
one hot dog two whistles
Numerical Singular Numerical Plural
Adjective Noun Adjective Noun
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