My English Lessons – Adjectives

Videos:

Adjectives- The Grammar Game Show Episode 18

Links:

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-adjectives/

Excerpt:

Definition –

Nouns are words that describe a place, person, thing, or idea. Adjectives add more info to nouns.

Thus, Adjectives modify nouns, pronouns, and other adjectives in a sentence.

The degree of adjectives –

Three degrees – positive, comparative, and superlative

Types of Adjectives –

1. Descriptive – describes nouns and pronouns
2. Quantitative – gives the quantity of something
3. Demonstrative – Describe ‘Which’ noun and pronoun
4. Possessive – describe to whom things belong
5. Interrogative – followed by a noun or pronoun to form a question [which, what, and whose are adjectives but who and how are not]
6. Distributive – describes specific members out of a group using each, every, either, and any like words
7. Articles – A, An, and The are also adjectives

Note: If Canada is the proper noun, Canadian is the proper adjective.

The order of adjectives is –

order	relating to	examples
1	Opinion	unusual, lovely, beautiful
2	Size	big, small, tall
3	Physical Quality	thin, rough, untidy
4	Shape	round, square, rectangular
5	Age	young, old, youthful, teen, kid
6	Color	blue, red, pink
7	Origin	Dutch, Japanese, Turkish
8	Material	metal, wood, plastic
9	Type	general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped
10	Purpose	cleaning, hammering, cooking

 

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