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A d j e c t i v e s

A d j e c t i v e s. What is an adjective ?. Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The tall professor A solid commitment A month's pay A six-year-old child T he unhappiest, richest man . Position .

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A d j e c t i v e s

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  1. Adjectives

  2. What is an adjective ? • Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. • The tall professor • A solid commitment • A month's pay • A six-year-old child • The unhappiest, richest man

  3. Position • Adjectives nearly always appear immediately before the noun or noun phrase that they modify. • Angrycostumers have complained about poorservice in the newrestaurant. • The tiredteacher walked into the noisy room.

  4. When indefinite pronouns — such as something, someone, anybody — are modified by an adjective, the adjective comes after the pronoun: • Anyonecapable of doing something horrible to someone nice should be punished.

  5. Predicate Adjective • When adjective occurs after a linking verb, it is called a predicate adjective. It job is to modify the subject. • The teacher is intelligent and kind. • The coffee tastes good. • Mr. Ali feels ill.

  6. Degrees of Adjectives • Adjectives can express degrees of modification: the comparative, and the superlative. • Gladys is a rich woman, but Josie is richer than Gladys, and Sadie is the richestwoman in town.

  7. Comparative & Superlative. • The inflected suffixes -erand -estsuffice to form most comparatives and superlatives. • Although we need-ierand -iest when a two-syllable adjective ends iny(happier and happiest) • Otherwise we use more and most when an adjective has more than one syllable.

  8. Examples PositiveComparativeSuperlative rich richer richest lovely lovelier loveliest beautiful more beautiful most beautiful Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms good better best Bad worse worst little less least much/many/some more most far further furthest

  9. The Order of Adjectives in a Series

  10. Refrences • http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm

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