LESSON XXIX.

CLASSES OF ADJECTIVES.

ADJECTIVES OF QUALITY.

Point out the adjectives in the following sentences that express quality or kind in the objects named by the nouns with which they are used:—

1.This is a sweet apple.
2.I bought an oak table and a silver tray.
3.These girls are happy.

Adjectives that express quality or kind in the objects named by the nouns with which they are used, are called qualifying adjectives; as, These kind girls took some fresh flowers to a sick woman.

Qualifying adjectives that are formed from proper nouns are called proper adjectives. They begin with capital letters; as, He gave her an English coin.

EXERCISE.

Select the qualifying adjectives in the following sentences, and state the nouns they qualify:—

1.A wise man considers his words.
2.Gentle, loving Nell was dead.
3.Her sleep was beautiful and calm.
4.Wonderful animals are to be seen in African forests.
5.With a slow and noiseless footstep
Comes that messenger divine.—Longfellow.
6.Like other dull men, the king was all his life suspicious of superior people.—Thackeray.
7.O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood.—Scott.