An Adjective is a word that describes or modifies other words,
it helps describing people places and things
Words like small, blue, and sharp are descriptive, and they are all examples of adjectives
Determiners are grammar words that act as adjectives, that is : • ARTICLES a, an, and the . • POSSESSIVES My, Your, His, Her, Its, Our, Their. • DEMONSTRATIVES These, those, this and that . • NUMBERS • INTERROGATIVE which, what, and whose .
POSITION In a sentence adjectives are usually positioned q Before the noun or pronoun that they modify.
Ex. There is a small dog in the garden
I’ve some new shoes
q or After link verbs (appear, be, become, feel, get, look, seem, taste, smell.)
Ex. The car is old
Jane is feeling cold
The flower smells nice
The form of the adjective is the same for singular nouns and plural nouns Ex. Snow White is holding a red apple
There are some red apples in the basket
An adjective makes your writing and speaking much more specific, and more interesting. They generally answer to questions like • What kind? • Which one? • How many? • How much?
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Ex. Today it’s a warm (What kind) day with hundreds (How many) of butterflies flying in a clear blue(What kind ) sky
They give some information about an object’s size, shape, age, colour, origin or material. • • • • • • • •
It’s a big table. (size) It’s a round table. (shape) It’s an old table. (age) It’s a brown table. (colour) It’s an English table. (origin) It’s a wooden table. (material) It’s a lovely table. (opinion) It’s a broken table. (observation)
Some sentences contain Today it’s a bright sunny day
I bought a comfortable new sofa
She’s wearing a beautiful purple sweater
What’s the Correct Order for To make a perfect sentence one should follow a specific order
Native speakers of English tend to put them in the correct order naturally, but if you’re learning English, you’ll have to memorize the order.
• Determiner – This means: a, an, the, a number or amount, my, his, her, its, your, our, their, or this, that, these, those. • Observation/Opinion – Beautiful, expensive, gorgeous, broken, delicious, ugly • Size – Huge, tiny, 4-foot-tall • Shape – Square, circular, oblong • Age – 10-year-old, new, antique • Colour – Black, red, blue-green • Origin – Roman, English, Mongolian • Material – Silk, silver, plastic, wooden • Qualifier – A noun or verb acting as adjective
This is the correct order for adjectives that come directly before a noun, and they are separated by commas.
For example My beautiful, big, circular, antique, brown, English, wooden coffee table was broken in the move.
If the adjectives come after the verb “be”, as the complement, the adjectives in the complement are separated by commas with the final two being separated by “and.”
For example My car is beautiful, big, long, new, yellow and Italian
Anyway it’s not very common to have so many adjectives in a sentence, it is not useful even for your listener
When we talk about two things, we can "compare" them.
We can see if they are the same or different. Perhaps they are the same in some ways and different in other ways.
We can use comparative adjectives to describe the differences.
There are two ways to make or to "form" a comparative adjective:
short adjectives: add "-er"
long adjectives: use "more"
With some 2-syllable adjectives, we can use “-er" OR "more":
quiet → quieter/more quiet clever → cleverer/more clever narrow → narrower/more narrow simple → simpler/more simple
Use of Comparative Adjectives We use comparative adjectives when talking about 2 things (not 3 or 10 or 1,000,000 things, only 2 things). Often, the comparative adjective is followed by "than".
• Look at these examples:
John is 1m70. He is tall. But Chris is 1m85. He is taller than John
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America is big. But Russia is bigger.
I want to have a more powerful computer.
A SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVE expresses the extreme or highest degree of a quality.
We use a superlative adjective to describe the extreme quality of one thing in a group of things.
We can use superlative adjectives when talking about three or more things (not two things). In the example below, "biggest" is the superlative form of the adjective "big":
As with comparative adjectives, there are two ways to form a superlative adjective: • short adjectives: add "-est" • long adjectives: use "most"
We use a superlative adjective to describe one thing in a group of three or more things. Superlative sentences usually use “the� Look at these examples:
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world
• Canada, China and Russia are big countries. But Russia is the biggest.
Irregular comparatives and superlatives
Exception: The following adjectives have irregular forms: Adjectives
Comparatives
Superlatives
bad
worse
worst
far(distance)
farther
farthest
far(extent)
further
furthest
good
better
best
little
less
least
many
more
most
much
more
most