Adjectives

Adjectives

beautiful funny

colorful high
Definition of Adjective
We use an adjective to describe a noun and a pronoun.

An adjective tells about:

a person an animal a place

a thing
Articles are adjectives :
A dog
The happy girl
An apple
Some apples
Few people

Numbers are adjectives:

Five books
Twenty papers
Adjectives are colors:
brown boxes
the blue sky
green apples

Adjectives are shapes:

round containers
a square room
Adjectives are sizes:
tiny egg
huge gorilla

Adjectives are conditions:

frightened man
energetic dog
silly behavior
 Where an Adjective Goes in a Sentence

Usually an adjective comes in front of the noun

it is describing.

Example:

happy dog

tired boy

seven girls
 Where an Adjective Goes in a Sentence
An adjective can also come after certain verbs.
These include:
be (am, is, are), seem, look, appear, sound,
smell, taste, feel,
get, become, remain, keep.

e.g. The room smells good.

Adjectives usually do not have
plural forms.
Correct:
The black dogs bark every night when
I go to sleep.

Incorrect:
The blacks dogs bark every night when
I go to sleep.
Exception: Demonstrative Adjectives:
this, that, these, those
Singular
This hat is mine.
That hat is yours.

Plural
These hats are mine.
Those hats are yours.
The laptop computer has a blue
screen and a black screen.

1
The big yellow bus is taking
the wrong road.

2
That big bad dog is always at
the park

3
We saw a gray elephant at the
zoo.

4
He found five coins on the ground.

5
The young boy is very, very
fat.

6
The football team
won the big game easily!

7
Mom and dad always
help me with my English
homework.

8
 Adjectives: Word Order
Adjectives which give us objective Adjectives which tell us what someone
information are called fact adjectives: thinks of someone are called opinion
sunny, hot, young, large adjectives: nice, ugly, pretty

Remember: opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives.

Sometimes there are two or more fact adjectives. Put them in the following
order:

how how what where what is

it made
big? old? color? from? of? a noun
1 2 3 4 5

a tall young man big blue eyes a small black plastic bag
Common Adjective Endings
Sometimes we can recognize an adjective by its ending.

Endings include:
-able, -al, -en, -ful, -ic, -ive, -less, -ous, -y

admirable active
natural careless
wooden funny
beautiful serious
Comic healthy