The adjective is one of the first questions, themes, that we are taught in elementary school, and more precisely in the matter of Language, because of course, it constitutes a fundamental part of a sentence, providing the same meaning and precise characteristics about that that it is and also has a unique contribution in terms of limitation or completing a meaning.
Adjectives are extremely abundant in any language, although there are some languages that do not use them and instead use other grammatical forms.
Basically the function of an adjective at the request of a phrase, sentence, is to qualify or determine a noun, that is, it specifies or highlights some property, characteristic, which many times turns out to be of vital importance because it clarifies or clarifies some question being discussed.
For example, My red dress is not appropriate to attend that party. In this case, the mention of the color of the dress, red, which works as an adjective of the noun dress, allows us to know that this color is not the one that someone is expected to use in the celebration and therefore, or someone made a mistake if they used it. , or it will be necessary to use another color so as not to clash in it.
Then, it is called an 'adjective' to the words whose main grammatical function is to modify the accompanying noun in different ways. The objective of this function is merely the description or determination of that noun that is being adjective in such a way that the language becomes more complex and evolved. When an adjective is used, in addition, the type and number of the noun are being specified, especially in the Spanish language when the adjective always marks both the number and gender of the noun. It is important to distinguish adjectives from adverbs, terms that modify the verb instead of modifying the noun.
Elements and types of adjectives
Some basic elements of the adjective are: it always appears adjacent to the noun it modifies (although this modification can occur directly, as in 'a brown dog', or indirectly, as in 'the dog that is black'), it acts as a attribute or a characteristic of the noun (concrete, as in 'the big pencil', or abstract, as in 'boring work'), among others.
Adjectives can be attributive (that is, they are attributed to a certain noun as its descriptive characteristic), predicative (when they appear through the use of copulative verbs such as ser or estar), nouns (those that act almost as nouns in the absence of the himself, for example when a person is referred to and described as 'the shy' or 'the loving').
At the same time, other categories can be explanatory adjectives (those that are self-explanatory because they are applied to a noun that already gives us that idea, for example when talking about 'a quiet silence'), determiners (such as numeral, demonstrative, possessive and indefinite adjectives, all adjectives that determine the character of the noun), and qualifiers (that give a qualification or characterization to the noun beyond the number).
Now, it is important that we emphasize that the ones we use the most are the qualifying adjectives and demonstrative adjectives. In the first case, they are those that indicate the quality of the noun they accompany and will obviously end up modifying the noun (Laura is old), while the second are used to indicate the closeness between sender and receiver in relation to the clear implicated noun is (I'm trying to find a pair to this shoe).
Qualifying adjectives, without a doubt, are the ones we use the most and always provide an inherent quality to the noun that may be concrete, visible, palpable, or, failing that, abstract.
In the specific case of demonstratives, they can be recognized because they always precede the noun they affect and it is important that we mention that the closeness that they have as a mission to manifest may be of time or space.
