English Using Possessive Adjectives, Definition and Example Sentences The words that qualify the name are called adjectives. Adjectives are used before the name they define. Adjectives generally refer to nouns, but in some cases also verbs. This does not apply to every verb, these verbs are limited: be, get, become, seem, appear, look, smell, sound, taste, feel. Most of the adjectives can be followed by adjectives clause. In general, after mentioning adjectives, there are also possessive…