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3. Numeral Adjectives: Adjectives of Numbers (Numeral Adjectives) show how many persons or things are meant, or, in what order a person or thing stands. For example -
(a) There are seventeen hundred students in our college.
(b) Few Indians hate their culture.
(c) How many players were awarded for their best performance?
(d) No teachers were present in the meeting.
(e) The cat drank up all the milk in the pot.

Kinds of Numeral Adjectives

1. Definite Numeral Adjectives: These Adjective denote an exact number. They are of two kinds: -
(a) Cardinals: three, five, one, ten, six, eight, seventeen, thirty four, twenty seven, twenty five, etc.
(b) Ordinals: first, second, third, fifth, sixth, eighth, etc.

2. Indefinite Numeral Adjectives: These adjectives denote indefinite number without an exact number.

Pay Attention - A Roman Numeral take the same form in cardinal and ordinal numbers, I, V, X, L, XC, C, etc. For example: -

1. Many men come; many men go.
2. All the boys of our college were shouting slogans with much zeal and happiness.
3. A few people took part in the procession.
4. Have you eaten any food?
5. They had no houses to live in.

All, no, many, few, some, any, certain, several, sundry, etc.

3. Distributive Numeral Adjectives: These adjectives refer to each one of a number. For example: -

1. Each student must take his turn.
2. Every boy, girl, man, and woman was enjoying the fine weather in the rainy season.
3. Neither side was safe.
4. Gandhiji wanted every Indian to do his duty honestly & efficiently.
5. Either book will solve my purpose.

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