ADJECTIVE
S
Contents
*Introduction
*Different forms of Adjectives
*Examples
*Activity
*Exercises
friendly
good
fat
interesting
ugly
lazy
beautiful
tall
boring
bad
naughty
useless
clever
unfriendly
unhappy
lovely
thin
careful
happy hardworking
polite
handsome
lonely
short
helpful
shy
helpless
friendly
careless
lovely
interesting
lonely
boring
hardworking
crying
running
Type 2:
Regular
Irregular
Past Participle
verb form
= Showing or feeling of
= Make or cause to be
Examples: Adjectives in
Past Participle Form
Regular:
surprise. surprised
interest...interested
excite..excited
frighten..frightened
crowd.crowded
tire.tired
injure.injured
boil .boiled
bore.bored
cookcooked
*worryworried
Irregular:
breakbroken
fallfallen
writewritten
steal.stolen
give.given
seeseen
drivedriven
speak...spoken
forget..forgotten
*sellsold
*loselost
A broken vase
Examples: Adjectives in
Present Participle Form
Regular:
Irregular:
interestinteresting
surprisesurprising
fall...falling
exciteexciting
fly....flying
boil...boiling
tiretiring
relax.relaxing
runrunning
worry...worrying
work hardhardworking
satisfy....satisfying
cry.....crying
die.dying
burn...burning
disappoint.disappointing
A crying boy
A shopping centre
A hardworking farmer
A swimming lesson
Fallen leaves
Falling leaves
Boiling water
Boiled water
3. Noun + able or
ible
= full of something /
having the quality of
something
= able to do something/
showing qualities of
something
2. Noun + less
4. Noun + y
= without something
= full of something
Noun + less
carecareless
helphelpless
hope..hopeless
power.powerless
colourcolourless
use.useless
cheer.cheerless
fearfearless
meaning.meaningless
doubt.doubtless
Beautiful flowers
Colourful fruits
A careful girl
A careless boy
careless = ?
Helpful children
A helpless beggar
helpless
=?
A meaningful sentence
a meaningless sentence
A successful man
A successless man
NO!
An unsuccessful man
responseresponsible
comfortcomfortable
sense..sensible
reason...reasonable
horror..horrible
agree.agreeable
move.movable
value.valuable
believe...believable
forget....forgettable
A comfortable home
Examples: noun + y
wind.windy
health..healthy
cloudcloudy
wealth.wealthy
snow.snowy
luck.lucky
rain..rainy
greedgreedy
sunsunny
sleep.sleepy
noise.noisy
rock.rocky
taste.tasty
sand.sandy
saltsalty
bloodbloody
cream..creamy
speedspeedy
Tasty food
A dirty city
A noisy place
A rainy day
A windy day
A sunny day
+ adjective
7. non + adjective
= NOT + adjective
(opposite in meaning)
Examples: un + adjectives
happy..unhappy
usual.unusual
tidy.untidy
healthy..unhealthy
able.unable
helpful..unhelpful
kindunkind
comfortableuncomfortable
lucky.unlucky
forgettable.unforgettable
fair.unfair
friendly..unfriendly
likely.unlikely
cookeduncooked
lockedunlocked
important...unimportant
seen.unseen
reasonable..unreasonable
equal..unequal
attractive.unattractive
A tidy room
An untidy room
A happy family
An unhappy girl
Unhealthy snacks
An easy word
An uneasy word
NO!
A difficult word
Examples: in + adjectives
direct.indirect
active.inactive
correct...incorrect
Complete...incomplete
famous...infamous
convenient.inconvenient
considerateinconsiderate
dependent..independent
A correct sentence
An incorrect sentence
Examples: im + adjectives
Polite...impolite
Possible...impossible
Perfect....imperfect
Patient....impatient
Balanced....imbalanced
Mature...immature
Measurable....immeasurable
A possible wish
An impossible wish
Examples: ir + adjectives
regular...irregular
responsible.irresponsible
relevant..irrelevant
removable..irremovable
replaceable.irreplaceable
Regular
Irregular
MTR service
mini-bus service
Examples: il + adjectives
legal..illegal
logical..illogical
literate.illiterate
A logical sentence
An illogical sentence
or
Adjective + ly
*Adjective + ly
lovelovely
live..lively
friend.friendly
like..likely
order.orderly
lone.lonely
Lovely monkeys
The friendly
Santa Claus
Story-writing Exercise 1
Our English teacher gives us dictations every week. Sometimes,
the teacher asks us to study for the dictations beforehand, but
sometimes we do not have to. That means some are ___________
dictations and some are ______________ dictations.
However, my classmates are bad students. Some of them tell lies.
They are ____________________.
Some of them do not obey the teachers. They are _____________.
Some of them always sleep in class. It seems that they always feel
_____________________.
Some of them always throw rubbish. So, the classroom is very
_______________.
Some of them shout loudly in class. They are very __________.
In this examination, most of them get poor results. Their teachers
and parents feel ________________________ at their performance.
Story-writing Exercise 2
Once, there was an old man. He was very rich, but he wanted
more and more money. He was really ___________________.
He had a son, but he always beated him up. He was ___________
to his son.
It rained heavily one day. The old man travelled with his son in a
car on this _________________ day.
When the old man was driving, he did not look at the traffic
lights which had turned red and so the car crashed in a lorry. He
was very ___________________.
His son fell into a river. He could not swim and he felt
___________________ because he needed help.
Luckily, a man who always helped others saved him. He was a
______________________ man. The son was really _______________
because he did not die.
However, the old man was trapped in the car. He was going to
die. The son had no hope that his father would live. He felt
_________________.
At this time, the man came to help again. He used some tools to
open the door of the cars. The tools were very __________________.
At last, the kind man saved the old man who was taken to
hospital.