What are the numeral adjectives, if any, in the following sentence?: The five large roosters crowed six times.
1 Answer
May 10, 2018
Five and six.
Explanation:
Numeral adjectives specify the number of nouns that they are modifying.
Some examples of basic numeral adjectives are in these different categories:
Cardinal: one, two, three, four, etc.
Ordinal: first, second, third, fourth, etc.
Indefinite: some, few, many, all, too, much
In your sentence, there are two cardinal numeral adjectives:
The
#color(blue)"five"# large roosters crowed#color(blue)"six"# times.
Here is a helpful article on numeral adjectives if you need more information.