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The Adjective: The Rich Should Help The Poor

The adjective is a part of speech that describes nouns. Adjectives do not change form for singular or plural nouns. There are several rules for ordering adjectives: opinion adjectives come first, then size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. Adjectives are also compared using -er/est or more/most forms. Some adjectives are irregular like good/better/best. Adjectives can be used to intensify meanings with too, enough, or modifiers like much/far.

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The Adjective: The Rich Should Help The Poor

The adjective is a part of speech that describes nouns. Adjectives do not change form for singular or plural nouns. There are several rules for ordering adjectives: opinion adjectives come first, then size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. Adjectives are also compared using -er/est or more/most forms. Some adjectives are irregular like good/better/best. Adjectives can be used to intensify meanings with too, enough, or modifiers like much/far.

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THE ADJECTIVE

The adjective is the part of speech that describes a noun. Adjectives do not change form in the
singular and the plural

{Adjectivul este partea unui discurs care descrie un substantive. Adjectivele nu isi schimba forma de
singular si plural}

-The blue blouse is on the bed

The blue blouses are on the bed

Order of adjectives

1.Adjectives normally go before nouns:

I have a red car.

Your little baby is sleeping.

2.Adjectives can also be used without a noun after certain verbs(appear, be, become, feel, taste):

This girl is pretty

After hearing the news, she became serious

3.The adjectives afraid, alone, awake, glad cannot be placed in front of a noun:

The cat was afraid of the dog(not an afraid cat)

The child is fast asleep (not an asleep child)

4.We can use certain adjectives as plural nouns, referring to a group of people in general: the poor,
the rich, the blind, the disabled, the hungry, etc

The rich should help the poor.

5. Opinion adjectives(wonderful, awful, beautiful, nice)go before all other quality adjectives(large,
old, round, blue, etc)

They lived in a wonderful large house

She found an ugly old dog.

6. When there are two or more quality adjectives in the same sentence, they normally go in the
following order:

VERB - Opinion(nice) - Size(big) - Age(new) – S hape(square) - Colour(brown) - Origin( german)-


Material(wooden)- Purpose – Noun( chest )
Regular comparative and superlative froms :

Adjectives of one syllable add-(e)r/- (e)st to form their comparative and superlative forms:

Short- shorter(than)- the shortest(of/in)

Adjectives of two syllables ending in –er, -ly, -y, -w, also add –er/-est

Heavy- heavier(than) –the heaviest(of/in)

Adjectives of two or more syllables take more/most:

Special- more special(than) – the most special(of/in)

Observation:

a. We double the single final consonant when the preceding vowel is stressed and spelled with
a single letter:

Big-bigger(than)-the biggest

Fat-fatter(than)-the fattest

Hot-hotter(than)-the hottest

b. When a short adjective ends in a consonant+ y, we change the’’y’’ to ‘’i’’ and add –er/-est:

Busy-busier(than)-the busiest

Happy-happier(than)- the happiest

Grandma is busy. Mum is busier than grandma. Dad is the busiest of all.

c. Adjectives ending in –e receive only –r in the comparative or –st in the superlative:

Large-larger(than)- the largest

Nice-nicer(than)- nicest

Strange-stranger(than)- the strangest

Observation:

-We can use the intensifiers much, a lot, far to make a comparative stronger:

A lot more interesting

Far bigger

Much more important

-We can use almost, nearly, just+as…as:

I am just as fat as my father

Adjectives can also be used together with too and enough . Too usually comes beore an adjective,
while enough usually comes aftei it:

She is too good to fail the exam


Steve isn’t fast enough for the competition

Irregular adjectives : Some adjectives are irregular and that means they change form entirely
according to the degree of comparison we want to use:

Positive Comparative Superlative


Good better The best
Bad worse The worst
Much More The most
many more The most
Little Less The least

Observation:

Among the irregular adjectives there are some which have two froms of comparison for the
comparative and the superlative:

OLD:a. older- the oldest(for beings and thing)

b. elder-the eldest(for members of the same family)

LATE: a. later-the latest (the most recent)

b. latter(the second of the two)-the last(final)

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