Adjetives and Superlatives

 

ADJETIVES

Simply put adjectives are descriptive words. Adjectives are used to describe or give information about things, ideas and people: nouns or pronouns.

For example:-

The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".)

The most common question an adjective might answer is "What kind of ...?"

The good news is that in English the form of an adjective does not change, once you have learnt it that's it and it does not matter if the noun being described is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object. Yay!

Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun - age, size colour etc (fact adjectives - can't be argued with).

Some adjectives show what somebody 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, or how many, you need an adjective to be able to answer.

There are different types of adjectives in the English language:

·         Numeric: six, one hundred and one etc.

·         Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough etc.

·         Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc.

·         Possessive: my, his, their, your etc.

·         Interrogative: which, whose, what etc.

·         Demonstrative: this, that, those, these etc.

!Note - The articles a, an, and the are a special kind of adjective called articles, and the possessives my, our, your, and their are sometimes known as possessive adjectives.

Colour

Adjectives can be used to describe colour.

blue, red, green, brown, yellow, black, white, etc.

For example:

·         "The blue bag." or "The blue bags".

Opinion

Adjectives can be used to give your opinion about something.

good, pretty, right, wrong, funny, light, happy, sad, full, soft, hard etc.

For example:

·         He was a silly boy. / She was a silly girl.

Size

Adjectives can be used to describe size.

big, small, little, long, tall, short, same as, etc.

For example:

·         "The big man." or "The big woman".

Age

Adjectives can be used to describe age.

For example:

·         "He was an old man." or "She was an old woman."

 

SUPERLATIVES

 Comparative is the name for the grammar used when comparing two things. The two basic ways to compare are using as .. as or than. Examples of each are shown below:

  • She's twice as old as her sister.
  • He's not as stupid as he looks!
  • I'm almost as good in maths as in science.
  • This book is not as exciting as the last one.
  • The cafeteria is not as crowded as usual.
  • Russian is not quite as difficult as Chinese.
  • This computer is better than that one.
  • She's stronger at chess than I am.
  • It's much colder today than it was yesterday.
  • Our car is bigger than your car.
  • This grammar topic is easier than most others.
  • I find science more difficult than mathematics.
  • Today's ESL lesson was more interesting than usual.

Note: In each of the example sentences above, the comparative form of the adjective is shown. See the foot of this page for information about the comparison of adverbs.


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