Adjectives + Adjectives describe nouns, go before nouns and have ‘he same form in the singular and plural. @ huge tee/ hugetrees + Adjectives can also be used alone after the verbs be, look, smell, sound, feel, taste, seem, appear, become, get, stay, etc. Heis handsome. (smells good. “+ There are two kinds of adjectives: opinion adjectives (interesting fantastic) which show what a person thinks ‘af somebody or something, and fact adjectives (ol, a, short which give us factual information about size, age, colour origin, material, etc “+ There are also compound adjectives which are formed with a). present participles: ong-lasting journey 'b) past participles: broken-down car ©) cardinal numbers + nouns: athe-day trp NOT ethreedayetrip well badly + past participle: weinformed people Comparisons As/Lke ‘We use ike ‘with nounsfpronounsing form to express similarity, ‘She eos hin ikea servant. (He sta servant) ‘+ with feel, look, smell, taste. Shelooks ike esse ‘We use as to say what somebody or something really i. He works asa oir Comparatives and Superlatives We use the comparative to compare one person or thing wth another We use the superitive (0 compre one person or thing with more tan one person of thing of he Same group, We cten use than ater a comparave ad the before supe. Heisler than me He he olds person interoom Formation of comparatives and superlatives fom adjectives, ‘and adverbs: + with one-slale adjectives, we add (eto form the comparative and est to form the superlative. close closer—closest Note: for one sylable adjectives ending in a vowel + a consonant, we double the consonant. big bigger biggest “with two-sylable adjectvs ending ny, We ‘oad er est. nom rarer -narowest Note: for asectves ending in a consonant + y, we replace the with an thy—ler—dhlest + wah ther two-sylable adjectives or ajectves wth ‘more than two slabs, comparatnes and superlatives are formed with morelmost Ingen -moreinligen-mostinaigent ‘with adverbs that have the seme form as thee fected erst, har—horder—hordest + Swo-yleble or compound adverbs ake more/most stoly-more sly ~most sony Note: clever, commen, uel, friendly, gentle, pleasant polite, shallow, simple, stupid, quiet can form their comparaves and superatnes ether with ser-est with more/mast + regular forms: good = better ~best/ bad worse —werst/ ‘much ~ more - most ile les least / far ~farentrther-frthestfurthest/ ‘manyflot = more ~ most Order of adjectives Opinion adjectives go before fact adjectives ‘beautifullalian gid When there are two or more fact adjectives in 3 sentence, they usually goin the following order: size ~ age ~ shape ~ colour — origin ~ material - used {fotlbe about - noun ‘asmall old, square, Chinese able We do not usually have a long Ist of adjectives before a single noun. A noun is usually described by one, two or three adjectives at the most.