Report - Adjective

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Kinds of adjectives

Degrees of Comparison

Adjectives formingsuffixes


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What is an Adjective?

It describes a nouns and pronouns.

She wore a beautifuldress.

Examples:

Louis is an adorablebaby. Lindas hair is gorgeous.


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Examples:

Its abigtable (size) Its aroundtable. (shape)

Its an Englishtable. (origin) Its an oldtable. (age)


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There are four questions an adjective will answer:

Which one?

The brown dog has been barking.

How many?

Three dogs have been barking

How much?

With three dogs. There a littlespace in the car.


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There are four questions an adjective will answer:

What kind?

A wild dog was barking.


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Qualitative Adjectives

Quantitative Adjectives

Demonstrative Adjectives

Interrogative Adjectives

Possessive Adjectives


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Descriptive/Qualitative Adjective

Descriptive / qualitative adjectives convey the shape, color, size, etc of nouns.

1. Thethickbook belongs to Harry.

Examples:

2. The yel lowribbon is used to decorate the gift box.

Quantitative Adjectives

Quantitative Adjectives convey the amount or number.

Examples:

1. She has manykittens at her house.

2. The teacher has given too muchhomework to the students.


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Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives single out the nouns that they are used with.

1. That car belongs to Lim.2. Thesequestions are really hard to answer.

Examples:

Interrogative Adjectives

Interrogative adjectives ask questions.

1. What is your ambition?

2. Who is your favorite actress?

Examples:


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Possessive Adjectives

Possessive adjectives show possession.

Examples:

2. Fatima forgives herfriend.

1. The cat is waggingitstail


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Positive Degree

Comparative Degree

Superlative Degree


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Examples:

Positive Degree Comparative Degree Superlative Degree

Tall Taller Tallest

Kind Kinder Kindest


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The first degree of comparison is the Positive degree.

- It refers to the adjective in its simple form , merely showing the

existence of the quality.Examples:

This is a large box.

Rony is a smart boy.

It refers to a higher degree of adjectives as compared to the positive.

Examples:

This is a larger box than the first one.

Jimmy is smarter than Rony.

It refers to the highest degree of adjectiveand is used when more than twothings or persons are compared

Examples:

This is the largest box of all boxes.

Kevin is the smartest of all the boys.


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If the positive ends in two consonants, or in one consonant, 'er' and 'est' arerespectively added to the positive in forming comparative and superlative

Positive Comparative Superlative

Young Younger Youngest

Deep Deeper Deepest


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If the positive ends in one consonant preceded by a short vowel, thatconsonant is doubled before 'er' and 'est' are added.


Flat Flatter FlattestGlad Gladder Gladdest

When the positive ends in 'e', only 'r' and 'st' [not 'er', 'est'] are added


Brave Braver Bravest

Large Larger Largest


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Adjectives of three or more syllables form their comparative and superlativeby putting 'more' and 'most' before the positive.


Expensive Moreexpensive Most expensive

Difficult More difficult Most difficult


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Example:


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Example:

Eat - Eaten - Eating

Eat

is the root word/base word.

Eaten Eating = SUFFIXES

Suffixes modify the root words to which they are added.

Example:Eat - verb/action of taking in food.

Eater - noun/person who eats.

Suffixer modifies the root word eatfrom a verb to a noun.


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We use suffixes to form plurals of nouns.

SUFFIX

-s

-es

-ies

-en

Example:

Sandwich Sandwiches

Daisy Daisies

Ox Oxen


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We use suffixes to changethe tense of a verb.

Suffix Example

-s Paintpaints

-es Teachteaches

-d Adviseadvised

-ed Paintpainted

-t Bendbent

-ing Paint - painting


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Position of adjectives

Adjectivesusually go before the nouns they modify.

Example:

She is a nicegirl.

He is an intelligentboy.

When two or more adjectives come before a noun, they areusually separated by commas.

Example:

A large,round table

A short, fair, pretty girl


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When the last two are adjectives of color, they are usuallyseparated by and.

Position of adjectives

A black andwhite cow.

Example:

Red andblue socks.When two or more adjectives come in the predicative position, we useand between the last two.

It was hot and sultry.

Example:

The clouds looked white and fluffy.


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Sometimes we put an adjective after the noun for the sake of emphasis.

Example:

There lived an old man strong and wicked.


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A series of adjectives consists of two or more adjectives in a row. Whenwriting a series of adjectives, it is important to place a comma aftereach one.

Example:

Aaron adored his soft, fluffy, yellow kitten.

When a sentence has a series of adjectives, the adjectives can be mixedup and the sentence will still make sense.

Aaron adored his yellow, fluffy, soft kitten.

Example:


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The categories in the following table can be described as follows:

Determinersarticles and other limiters. See DeterminersObservationpost determiners and limiter adjectives (e.g., a real hero, aperfect idiot) and adjectives subject to subjective measure (e.g., beautiful,interesting)Size and Shapeadjectives subject to objective measure (e.g., wealthy,large, round)Ageadjectives denoting age (e.g., young, old, new, ancient)Coloradjectives denoting color (e.g., red, black, pale)

Origin

denominal adjectives denoting source of noun (e.g., French,American, Canadian)Materialdenominal adjectives denoting what something is made of(e.g., woolen, metallic, wooden)Qualifierfinal limiter, often regarded as part of the noun (e.g., rockingchair, hunting cabin, passenger car, book cover)

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