Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The Articles — a, an, and the — are adjectives.

 

Before getting into other usage considerations, one general note about the use — or over-use — of adjectives: Adjectives are frail; don't ask them to do more work than they should. Let your broad-shouldered verbs and nouns do the hard work of description. Be particularly cautious in your use of adjectives that don't have much to say in the first place: interesting, beautiful, lovely, exciting.

 

It is your job as a writer to create beauty and excitement and interest, and when you simply insist on its presence without showing it to your reader — well, you're convincing no one.

 

Position of Adjectives :

• Adjectives nearly always appear immediately before the noun or noun phrase that they modify. Sometimes they appear in a string of adjectives, and when they do, they appear in a set order according to category
• And there are certain adjectives that, in combination with certain words, are always "postpositive" (coming after the thing they modify)

Positive	Comparative	Superlative
rich	richer	richest
lovely	lovelier	loveliest
lovely	lovelier	loveliest

•    Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the comparative and superlative degrees:

Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms

good	better	best
bad	worse	worst
little	less	least
much many some	more	most
far	further	furthest