Adjectives

Adjectives describe or give information about nouns and pronouns.

For example:-

The grey doy barked. (the adjective grey describes the noun “dog”.

The good news is that the form of adjectives does not change. It does matter
if the noun being modified is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object.

Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun-age, size, colour
etc (fact adjectives –can’t be argued with). Some adjectives show what some boady
thinks about something or somebody –nice, horrid, beautiful, etc (opinion
adjectives-not everyone may agree).

If you are asked questions with which, whose, what kind, of how many, you
need an adjective to be able to answer.

There are different types of adjectives in the English language.

1. Numeric: Six, one hundred and one

2. Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough
3. Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc.
4. Possessive: my, his, their, your
5. Interrogative: which, whose, what
6. Demonstrative: this, that, those, these
 Comparison of adjectives:
Ammu is taller.
Job is taller than Ammu.
Mohan is the tallest of the three.

In the second sentence, the word ‘taller’ is the comparative form of

the adjective. The comparative form of the adjective denotes a higher degree
of the adjective ‘tall’ when two people or things are compared.

In the third sentence, the word ‘tallest’ is the superlative form of the
adjective. The superlative form of the adjective denotes is the highest degree
of the adjective ‘tall’ when more than two people or things are compared.

Here are some simple rules to keep in the mind when forming
comparatives and superlatives.

Rule 1
For most adjectives, ‘er’ is added for the comparative form and ‘es’
for the superlative form.
Tall-Taller-Tallest
Strong-Stronger-Strongest
Short-Shorter-Shortest
Kind-Kinder-Kindest
Rule 2

For adjectives ending with ‘e’, ‘r’ is added for the comparative and ‘st’ for the
superlative form.

Wise-Wiser-Wisest
Large-Larger-Largest
Nice-Nicer-Nicest
Fine-Finer-Finest

Rule 3

For adjectives ending with ‘y’, ‘y’ is removed and ‘ier’ is added for comparative
and ‘iest’ for the superlative form.

Lazy-Lazier-Lazeist
Crazy-Crazier-Craziest
Wealthy- Wealthier- Wealthiest
Heavy- Heavier- Heaviest

Rule 4

Usually for longer adjectives, ‘more’+adjectives is used for comparative form and
‘most’+adjectives is used for superlatives form.

Handsome-More Handsome-Most Handsome

Beautiful-More Beautiful-Most Beautiful
Intelligent-More Intelligent-Most Intelligent
Difficult-More Difficult-Most Difficult

Rule 5

Irregular Adjectives: There are some irregular adjectives for which the
comparative and superlative form follows no particular lane.

Good-Better-Best
Bad-Worse-Worst
Many-More-Most
Little-Less-Least

Orders of Adjectives:

Rules:
Where a number of adjectives are used together, the order depends on the function
of the adjective. The usual order is:

Value/Opinion, Size, Age/Temperature, Shape, colour, Origin, Material.

Value/Opinion Delicious, lovely, charming

Size Small, huge, tiny
Age/Temperature Old, hot, young
Shape Round, square, rectangular
Colour Red, blonde,blace
Origin Swedish, Victorian,Chinese
Material Plastic, wooden, silver

Examples:

 A lovely old red post-box

 Some small round plastic tables
 Some charming small silver ornaments.