One task of language is to paint picture .If verbs and nouns are outlines and shapes, then adjectives are colours and textures (Strumpf and Douglas, 1999:97).
Adjective is a word used to describe or give more information about a noun , or rather more fully, a word that qualifies a noun, adds to its meaning but limits its application (Eckersley and Eckersley, 1983:64).Adjectives fall into a broad class of words called modifiers. A modifier is any word that acts to describe or qualify another word in such a way that it changes the other word s meaning. Describing and qualifying nouns and pronouns are the primary functions of adjectives (Strumf, 1999:97).
The major syntactic functions of adjectives are attributive and predicative. Adjectives are attributive when they premodfy nouns, i.e. appear between the determiner and the head of the noun phrase. In other words, an adjective is used to be attributively when it is placed next to the noun or noun equivalent it qualifies, i.e.,
(5) She has beautiful hair
(6) A beautiful view (Miller, 1954; 49)
An adjective is said to be used predicatively, when it is placed in the predicate as the complement of a verb of incomplete predicate, i.e.:
(7) The view is beautiful.
(8) He found her beautiful.