English Grammar Rules & Mistakes: Learn All of the Essentials: Writing, Speaking, Literature and Punctuation Rules Complete with 10 Key Skills and Over 200 Common Error Examples

Jessica’s music is enchanting.
With this example, we are talking about music again and it is easy to identify
that enchanting is an adjective as it answers the question of what kind of
music? As well as enchanting being an adjective, so also is Jessica’s. You

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might be thinking, hang on a second, the word Jessica is clearly a noun as it
is naming a person. You are not wrong. However, with the addition of ‘s,
Jessica becomes Jessica’s which changes it to an adjective. This is because
when you ask one of the adjective questions, whose? Jessica’s is the answer
to whose music it is?
Articles are the final piece of the adjective puzzle and something that quite a
few people trip up over. Not to worry, follow the advice below and you will
always be able to tell your a from your an. The good news is, though they are
often misused, there are not very many of them to misuse. In English, there
are three articles, the, a and an.
I want to eat an apple.
In this sentence, the person wants to eat an apple and it doesn’t matter which
one it is. This is because the person has not specified that they want to eat a
specific apple. The word an is an adjective because it is describing the apple.
It is also an indefinite article because it is not describing a specific apple.
I want to eat the apple.
In this example, you can see that the person is saying that they want to eat the
apple and that apple is a very specific one. They won’t eat just any old apple,
it has to be the one they are talking about. Once again, the world the is an
adjective because it is describing which apple. As well, it is also a definite
article as it describes exactly which apple the person wants to eat.
As you can see, adjectives can take a few different forms. It can start to get a
bit confusing so you must always remember that an adjective can only ever
be describing a noun. Keep this in mind and you won’t see yourself fall over
by using them incorrectly.