A STUDY OF ADJECTIVE TYPES AND FUNCTIONS IN POPULAR SCIENCE ARTICLES

Abstract

Abstract: This study aims to analyze adjective types and functions found in
popular science articles. 25 articles were randomly selected to analyze by employing the
conceptual framework of adjective types in English by Khamying (2007). The findings
reveal that ten types of adjectives including descriptive, proper, quantitative, numeral,
demonstrative, possessive, distributive, emphasizing, exclamatory, and relative were
found in the articles. The first five ranks of adjective types, which frequently used were
hierarchically ordered from the descriptive adjectives (66.51%), the possessive
adjectives (7.69%), the quantitative adjectives (7.57%), the demonstrative adjectives
(5.26%), and the cardinal numeral adjectives (5.20%).