How to select only ADJECTIVES from a list of strings?

Hi

I have a list of words in the string format. See below

I would like to only select adjectives from this list.

How to achieve it? Please help.:)

[KSSV]

What is your idea? How it can be done?

[Salad Box]

I have no idea that is why I post my question here.

[Salad Box]

I'm not sure whether you understand my question, or did I not make my question clear? Let me know please.

[Matt J]

Do you have a list of adjectives to cross check against? And what if a word is both an adjective and a noun, like "orange"?

Answer 1

[Matt J]

Do you have a list of adjectives to cross check against? And what if a word is both an adjective and a noun, like "orange"? If you just want to know if a word belongs to another list containing exclusively adjectives, you can use ismember, e.g.,

>> adjectives={'red','three','passive','candid'};
>> s=["red","person","woman","man","camera","tv","three"]
>> ismember(s,adjectives)

ans =

  1×7 logical array

   1   0   0   0   0   0   1

[Salad Box]

No I don't have a list of adjectives to cross check against.

Without this, how to do it?

I'm thinking of using part-of-speech function. Then how to select those words tagged 'adjectives' as part-of-speech?

For instance,

if the 2nd, the 4th, and the 10th word in a list of words are tagged as 'adjectives' as part-of-speech, how to know the indices of those words are 2, 4 and 10?