
For example, a person may be polite, but another person may be more polite, and a third person may be the most polite of the three. Some adjectives are comparable: they exist on a continuum. When you say, “Seven is my lucky number,” seven is a noun, but when you say, “There are seven cats in this painting,” seven is an adjective, because it is modifying the noun cats. In certain cases, numbers can also be adjectives.


An adjective modifies a noun and, in so doing, provides more information or detail about the noun.
