Adjective

An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.

Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns.^[1] Nowadays, certain words that usually had been classified as adjectives, including the, this, my, etc., typically are classed separately, as determiners.

Examples:

• That's a funny idea. (Attributive)
• That idea is funny. (Predicative)
• Tell me something funny. (Postpositive)
• The good, the bad, and the funny. (Substantive)
• Clara Oswald died three times. (Quantitative)