An adjective is a word that describes a noun. It tells you something
about thenoun. Examples: big, yellow, thin, amazing, beautiful, quick,
important A word or combination of words that modifies a noun (blue-
green, central, half-baked, temporary ).
- a word that expresses an attribute of something.
- the word class that qualifies nouns.
- An adjective is almost always placed before a noun in English.
- a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, refining, or
qualifying it.
- having grammatical function of comparison
- An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually making
its meaning more specific. Adjectives are used in a predicative or
attributive manner.
- most usual positions ? before the noun it modifies (some are at other
positions, e.g. fifteen feet deep, the sky above, chapter five, etc.)
- identified by special derivational endings or by special adverbial
modifiers that precede it.
- Examples of the sequence of adjectives in a noun phrase:
1. both the gifted young Negro college students
2. those three self-conscious little ladies
3. the first ten four multi-purpose aluminum kitchen utensils
4. that temperamental Italian opera singer.
Other Grammatical Structures as Adjectives:
1. the girl who is sitting at the desk over there (adjective clause)
2. the girl sitting at the desk over there (participial phrase)
3. the girl at the desk over there (prepositional phrase)
4. the girl over there (adverbial)
5. the girl to finish on time (infinitive phrase)
Adjectives as others:
1. the brave, the dead (noun)
2. hold tight (adverb)
etc.