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Kinds of adjectives
Degrees of Comparison
Adjectives formingsuffixes
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What is an Adjective?
It describes a nouns and pronouns.
She wore a beautifuldress.
Examples:
Louis is an adorablebaby. Lindas hair is gorgeous.
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Examples:
Its abigtable (size) Its aroundtable. (shape)
Its an Englishtable. (origin) Its an oldtable. (age)
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There are four questions an adjective will answer:
Which one?
The brown dog has been barking.
How many?
Three dogs have been barking
How much?
With three dogs. There a littlespace in the car.
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There are four questions an adjective will answer:
What kind?
A wild dog was barking.
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Qualitative Adjectives
Quantitative Adjectives
Demonstrative Adjectives
Interrogative Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
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Descriptive/Qualitative Adjective
Descriptive / qualitative adjectives convey the shape, color, size, etc of nouns.
1. Thethickbook belongs to Harry.
Examples:
2. The yel lowribbon is used to decorate the gift box.
Quantitative Adjectives
Quantitative Adjectives convey the amount or number.
Examples:
1. She has manykittens at her house.
2. The teacher has given too muchhomework to the students.
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Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives single out the nouns that they are used with.
1. That car belongs to Lim.2. Thesequestions are really hard to answer.
Examples:
Interrogative Adjectives
Interrogative adjectives ask questions.
1. What is your ambition?
2. Who is your favorite actress?
Examples:
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Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives show possession.
Examples:
2. Fatima forgives herfriend.
1. The cat is waggingitstail
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Positive Degree
Comparative Degree
Superlative Degree
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Examples:
Positive Degree Comparative Degree Superlative Degree
Tall Taller Tallest
Kind Kinder Kindest
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The first degree of comparison is the Positive degree.
- It refers to the adjective in its simple form , merely showing the
existence of the quality.Examples:
This is a large box.
Rony is a smart boy.
It refers to a higher degree of adjectives as compared to the positive.
Examples:
This is a larger box than the first one.
Jimmy is smarter than Rony.
It refers to the highest degree of adjectiveand is used when more than twothings or persons are compared
Examples:
This is the largest box of all boxes.
Kevin is the smartest of all the boys.
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If the positive ends in two consonants, or in one consonant, 'er' and 'est' arerespectively added to the positive in forming comparative and superlative
Positive Comparative Superlative
Young Younger Youngest
Deep Deeper Deepest
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If the positive ends in one consonant preceded by a short vowel, thatconsonant is doubled before 'er' and 'est' are added.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Flat Flatter FlattestGlad Gladder Gladdest
When the positive ends in 'e', only 'r' and 'st' [not 'er', 'est'] are added
Positive Comparative Superlative
Brave Braver Bravest
Large Larger Largest
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Adjectives of three or more syllables form their comparative and superlativeby putting 'more' and 'most' before the positive.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Expensive Moreexpensive Most expensive
Difficult More difficult Most difficult
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Example:
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Example:
Eat - Eaten - Eating
Eat
is the root word/base word.
Eaten Eating = SUFFIXES
Suffixes modify the root words to which they are added.
Example:Eat - verb/action of taking in food.
Eater - noun/person who eats.
Suffixer modifies the root word eatfrom a verb to a noun.
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We use suffixes to form plurals of nouns.
SUFFIX
-s
-es
-ies
-en
Example:
Sandwich Sandwiches
Daisy Daisies
Ox Oxen
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We use suffixes to changethe tense of a verb.
Suffix Example
-s Paintpaints
-es Teachteaches
-d Adviseadvised
-ed Paintpainted
-t Bendbent
-ing Paint - painting
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Position of adjectives
Adjectivesusually go before the nouns they modify.
Example:
She is a nicegirl.
He is an intelligentboy.
When two or more adjectives come before a noun, they areusually separated by commas.
Example:
A large,round table
A short, fair, pretty girl
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When the last two are adjectives of color, they are usuallyseparated by and.
Position of adjectives
A black andwhite cow.
Example:
Red andblue socks.When two or more adjectives come in the predicative position, we useand between the last two.
It was hot and sultry.
Example:
The clouds looked white and fluffy.
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Sometimes we put an adjective after the noun for the sake of emphasis.
Example:
There lived an old man strong and wicked.
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A series of adjectives consists of two or more adjectives in a row. Whenwriting a series of adjectives, it is important to place a comma aftereach one.
Example:
Aaron adored his soft, fluffy, yellow kitten.
When a sentence has a series of adjectives, the adjectives can be mixedup and the sentence will still make sense.
Aaron adored his yellow, fluffy, soft kitten.
Example:
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The categories in the following table can be described as follows:
Determinersarticles and other limiters. See DeterminersObservationpost determiners and limiter adjectives (e.g., a real hero, aperfect idiot) and adjectives subject to subjective measure (e.g., beautiful,interesting)Size and Shapeadjectives subject to objective measure (e.g., wealthy,large, round)Ageadjectives denoting age (e.g., young, old, new, ancient)Coloradjectives denoting color (e.g., red, black, pale)
Origin
denominal adjectives denoting source of noun (e.g., French,American, Canadian)Materialdenominal adjectives denoting what something is made of(e.g., woolen, metallic, wooden)Qualifierfinal limiter, often regarded as part of the noun (e.g., rockingchair, hunting cabin, passenger car, book cover)