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Adjectives Notes

This document discusses different types of adjectives and their usage: 1. Adjectives can describe nouns by appearing before or after linking/be verbs. 2. When multiple adjectives describe a noun, they follow an order of opinion, size, age, color, etc. 3. Verbs and nouns can also function as adjectives. Comparative adjectives compare two items while superlative adjectives compare three or more.

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Adjectives Notes

This document discusses different types of adjectives and their usage: 1. Adjectives can describe nouns by appearing before or after linking/be verbs. 2. When multiple adjectives describe a noun, they follow an order of opinion, size, age, color, etc. 3. Verbs and nouns can also function as adjectives. Comparative adjectives compare two items while superlative adjectives compare three or more.

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Adjectives

- Adjectives Before Nouns


- Adjectives After a Be Verb and a Linking Verb
- Word Order of Adjectives
- Other Parts of Speech used as Adjectives
- Adjective Pairs
- Comparative Form of Adjectives
- Superlative Form of Adjectives
• Adjectives describe nouns.
• An adjective is a word that tells you more about a person, an
animal, a place or a thing.
• In a sentence, we can place an adjective:
Before a noun
After a be verb and a linking verb
Adjectives before nouns
• Examples:
• 1. Mark went to an expensive (adjective) restaurant (noun) for
dinner.
Expensive describes the noun restaurant.
Expensive comes before the noun restaurant.
• 2. The hungry (adjective) lion (noun) attacked the villagers.
Hungry describes the noun lion.
Hungry comes before the noun lion.
Adjectives after a verb & a linking
verb
• Adjectives can also be placed after:
Be verbs – am, is, are, am, was, were, been, being
Linking verbs – smell, taste, look, see etc.
Examples:
1.Be verb
The cakes are (be verb) delicious (adjective).
Delicious describes the noun cakes.
2.Linking verb
The boss sounded (linking verb) angry (adjective).
Angry describes the noun boss.
Word order of adjectives
• We sometimes use more than 1 adjective to describe a noun.
• Examples:
• 1. My uncle brought back a beautiful small vase from China. (2
adjectives)
• 2. My uncle brought back a beautiful small blue vase from China.
(3 adjectives)
• 3. My uncle brought back a beautiful small blue ceramic vase
from China. (4 adjectives)
• When we use more than 1 adjective to describe a noun, the
adjectives usually follow a particular order.
• 1. Opinion –nice, great, beautiful
• 2. Size and shape – small, long, big, thin
• 3. Age – new, old, young
• 4. Color – red, blue, green
• 5. Origin / Nationality – Malaysian, Indian, Siamese
• 6. Material – gold, glass, metal
• 7. Purpose – bath (towel), fishing (rod)
Other parts of speech used as adjectives
• Some words from other part of speech can be used as
adjectives:
• 1. Nouns
• 2. – ing form of verbs (present participle form)
• 3. – ed/en form of verbs (past participle form)
• Example of noun used as adjective:
• The lorry (adjective) driver (noun) was fined for speeding. –
lorry describes the noun driver.
• Even though the word lorry is a noun, it functions as
adjective here because it describes the noun driver.
• Nouns used as adjective cannot be written in the plural form
– lorries drivers x
Present participle & past participle forms of verbs used as
adjectives

• The –
Verb ing/ed/en forms of verbs sometimes
- ing/ed/en form of the functions
Adjective as
adjectives as they can be used to describe nouns.
verb
• These
Excite
adjectives are placed before the nouns.
- ing (present participle) Exciting

Injure - ed (past participle) Injured

Freeze - en (past participle) frozen


Examples:

• 1. The exciting (present participle as adjective) game (noun)


thrilled many spectators. – exciting describes the noun game
• 2. The doctor treated the injured (past participle as adjective)
man (noun). – injured describes the noun man
• 3. She bought some frozen (past participle as adjective) mutton
(noun). – frozen describes the noun mutton
Adjective pairs
• Some of the verb forms are paired because they look similar.
• They are called Adjective Pairs
• It is important to remember that though they look almost alike,
they have different meanings.
Adjectives ending in – ing often describe a situation or a thing.
Adjectives ending in – ed often describe how a person feels.
Examples:
• 1. Malaysia Fest attracted many tourists as the events were
exciting. (exciting describes the noun events)
• 2. Sally was excited to receive so many presents on her birthday.
(excited describes how Sally felt)
• Some examples of adjective pairs:
• annoying – annoyed
• confusing – confused
• boring - bored
Comparative form of adjectives
• The comparative form of adjectives is used when one noun is
compared to another.
• Comparative adjectives can be formed in two ways:
• 1. Adding – er to an adjective (e.g.: older, taller)
• 2. Adding more in front of an adjective ( e.g.: more expensive,
more confident)
• For example:
• Sue is older than Kathy. (the word than is used after the
comparative from)
Superlative form of adjectives
• The superlative form of adjectives is used to compare three or
more nouns.
• Superlative adjectives can be formed in two ways:
• Adding – est to an adjective (e.g.: longest, oldest)
• Adding most in front of an adjective (e.g.: most intelligent, most
expensive)
• For example:
• Today is the happiest day of my life.
Continuation…

• The definite article the is always used before the


superlative form of the adjective.
• - est and most are both forms of superlative adjectives,
therefore do not use them together.
• Incorrect – Liza’s watch is the most cheapest.
• Correct – Liza’s watch is the cheapest.

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