Adjective

							 Adjective
 Written by Cat
Carol & Bamboo
             Definition
• Adjectives are words that describe or
  modify another person or thing in the
  sentence.
       For example:


• A wooden
  chair
• A beautiful
  flower
• A new
  Lamborghini
• Some fresh
  vegetables
      Your turn now(1)

• Some/three
  thick books
    Adjectives can be formed
           by adding:
•   able        •   ish
•   al          •   ive
•   ar          •   ful
•   ary         •   less
•   ate         •   ly
•   en          •   some
•   ible        •   ous
•   ic          •   y
             For example:
reasonable         foolish
national           talkative
regular            careful
imaginary          fearless
legitimate         lovely
wooden             quarrelsome
flexible           cautious
energetic          healthy
    Adjective patterns
• Adjectives expressing emotion or
  desire are usually followed by an
  infinitive.
Such as: sorry, glad, happy, anxious,
  eager, curious, (un)willing,
  reluctant.
• Present participles & past participles
  also follow the same pattern.
• Present participles:delighting,
  interesting, surprising.
• Past participles:pleased, delighted,
  shocked.
        For example:
• We are glad to know that you
  have recovered.
• I am pleased to meet you.
• The crying baby is my sister.
      Personal qualities
• kind, good, bad, nice, naughty, wise,
  foolish, cruel
may be used in any of these patterns:

You were kind to help us.
It was kind of you to help us.
How kind of you to help us.
  Impersonal Adjectives
• Necessary, dangerous, easy, difficult,
   (im)possible, important, essential, etc
   are used in this pattern:
It was easy (for him) to work out the
   problem.
  Which of the following
   clauses are correct?
1a. little brown house
b. brown little house        
2a. Italian red sports car       
b. red Italian sports car
    Order   of Adjective:
Ⅰ Determiners    Ⅴ Color
Ⅱ Observation    Ⅵ Origin
Ⅲ Size & shape   Ⅶ Material
Ⅳ Age            Ⅷ Qualifier
       More examples:
delicious     Some delicious
Thai          Thai food
some
food
        Your turn now(2a)
hair            Her long, black
her              hair.
black
long
     Your turn now(2b)
my           My lazy, selfish,
younger       fat, younger
lazy          brother.
selfish
fat
brother
      Adjective clause

• If a group of words containing
  a subject and verb acts as an
  adjective, it is called an
  Adjective Clause
         For example:

• My sister, who
  is much older
  than I am, is a
  computer
  engineer.
      Adjective Phrase

• If an adjective clause is
  stripped of its subject and verb,
  the resulting modifier becomes
  an Adjective Phrase
For example:

      • He is the man
        who is
        keeping my
        family in the
        poorhouse.
    Position of Adjectives

• In a sentence, adjectives nearly
  always appear immediately before
  the noun or noun phrase that they
  modify.
          For example:


• Stella is a careful girl.


• It is a red book.
   Degree of Adjective
• Positive
• Comparative than
• The Superlative
            For example:
Positive      Comparative      Superlative

rich          richer           richest

lovely        lovelier         loveliest

beautiful     more beautiful   most beautiful
         Irregular comparative &
            superlative forms

Positive       Comparative   Superlative

good           better        best
bad            worse         worst
far            further       furthest
little         less          least
Adjective & preposition
                      about it?
• Are you sure
                      of his honesty?
            good at
• She is                          tennis.
            fond of
            interested in
  Adjective & preposition
absent from        different from   independent of
busy with          excited about    keen on
certain about/of   free from        loyal to

common to          hard on          similar to


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