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What is an adjective?"




Simply put adjectives are descriptive words. Adjectives are used to describe or give information about things, ideas and people: nouns or pronouns.

For Example:-

The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".)

The most common question an adjective might answer is "What kind of ...?"

The good news is that in English the form of an adjective does not change, once you have learnt it that's it and it does not matter if the noun being described is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object. Yay!
Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun - age, size colour etc (fact adjectives - can't be argued with).
Some adjectives show what somebody thinks about something or somebody - nice, horrid, beautiful etc (opinion adjectives - not everyone may agree).
If you are asked questions with which, whose, what kind, or how many, you need an adjective to be able to answer.





There are different types of adjectives in the English language:

• Numeric: six, one hundred and one etc.
• Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough etc.
• Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc.
• Possessive: my, his, their, your etc.
• Interrogative: which, whose, what etc.
• Demonstrative: this, that, those, these etc.

!Note - The articles a, an, and the are a special kind of adjective called articles, and the possessives my, our, your, and their are sometimes known as possessive adjectives.



Colour

Adjectives can be used to describe colour.

blue, red, green, brown, yellow, black, white, etc.




For Example:

• "The blue bag." or "The blue bags".

Opinion

Adjectives can be used to give your opinion about something.

good, pretty, right, wrong, funny, light, happy, sad, full, soft, hard etc.




For Example:

• He was a silly boy. / She was a silly girl.

Size

Adjectives can be used to describe size.

big, small, little, long, tall, short, same as, etc.




For Example:

• "The big man." or "The big woman".

Age

Adjectives can be used to describe age.






For Example:

• "He was an old man." or "She was an old woman."

Shape

Adjectives can be used to describe shape.

round, circular, triangular, rectangular, square, oval, etc.





For Example:

• "It was a square box." or "They were square boxes."

Origin

Adjectives can be used to describe origin.





For Example:-

• "It was a German flag." or "They were German flags."

Material

Adjectives can be used to identify the material something is made of.

• "A wooden cupboard." or "Wooden cupboards."

!Note - In English we often change nouns into adjectives.
For Example: glass - a glass vase / metal - a metal tray etc.

Distance

Adjectives can be used to describe distance.
l -- o -- n -- g / short
long, short, far, around, start, high, low, etc.



For Example:

• "She went for a long walk." or "They went for lots of long walks."

Temperature

Adjectives can be used to describe temperature.

cold, warm, hot, cool, etc.




For Example:

• "It was a hot day" or "We eat ice cream on hot days."

Time

Adjectives can be used to describe time.

late, early, bed, nap, dinner, lunch, day, morning, night, etc.
For Example:

• "She had an early start."

Purpose

Adjectives can be used to describe purpose. (These adjectives often end with "-ing".)




For Example:

• "She gave them a sleeping bag." or "She gave them sleeping bags."

!Note - Have you noticed how the adjective stays the same, whether it is describing a masculine, feminine, singular or plural noun? Nice huh?
When using more than one adjective to modify a noun, the adjectives may be separated by a conjunction (and) or by commas (,).




For Example:

• "Her hair was long and blonde." or "She had long, blonde hair."

More examples:

Adjective	Pretty	Serious	Fast	Quiet
For Example:	She is a pretty girl.	He was a serious boy.	It could be a fast car.	They were quiet children.

!Note - Adjectives that go immediately before the noun are called attributive adjectives.
Adjectives can also be used after some verbs. They do not describe the verb, adverbs do that.
Adjectives after a verb describe the subject of the verb (usually a noun or pronoun).




For Example:

• "Lynne looks tired."

The subject (in this case Lynne) is being described as tired not the verb to look.







To be continued

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very well done , an extremely important subject in learning English as a second language
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Comparative form of Adjectives

When we compare things, people or even ideas we look at what makes them different from each other.Comparative adjectives are used to show what quality one thing has more or less than the other. They normally come before any other adjectives.
!Tip - It's a good idea to learn opposites (antonyms) when learning adjectives.



For example:


Tall / Short



The man on the left is taller than the man on the right.
The man on the right is shorter than the man on the left.
!Note - Have you noticed that when we are comparing two things like this we put than between the adjective and the thing being compared.



Fast / Slow



For example:

A car is faster than a bicycle.
A bicycle is slower than a car.



Big / Small



The red bag is bigger than the blue bag.
The blue bag is smaller than the red bag.

Forming the comparative

The way you form the comparative from an adjective depends – on the number of syllables and the spelling of the adjective.

Form	Rule	For example
Words of one syllable ending in 'e'.	Add -r to the end of the word.	wide - wider
For example:-A motorway is wider than a road.
Words of one syllable, with one vowel and one consonant at the end.	Double the consonant and add -er to the end of the word.	big - bigger
For example:-http://www.leunig.com.au/ - Reproduced with permission.
Words of one syllable, with more than one vowel or more than one consonant at the end.	Add - er to the end of the word.	high - higher
Mount Everest is higher than Mount Snowdon.
Words of two syllables, ending in 'y'.	Change 'y' to 'i', and add -er to the end of the word.	happy - happier
For example:-Some people seem to be luckier than other people.
Words of two syllables or more, not ending in 'y'.	Place 'more' before the adjective.	beautiful - more beautiful
For example:-Arguably Rome is more beautiful than Paris.

!Warning - For every rule, there is at least one exception and there are also irregular adjectives that you need to memorise as you come across them.



For example:-

• 'good' becomes 'better'
  
• 'bad' becomes 'worse'
  
• 'far' becomes 'farther' or 'further'

!Warning - A lot of people write "then" instead of "than"- avoid it as it's simply not correct, and let's face it, you would be marked down in a test or exam.