What is an adjective?

Adjectives are words that describe or modify other words, making your writing
and speaking much more specific, and a whole lot more interesting. Words like
small, blue, and sharp are descriptive, and they are all examples of adjectives. But
an easier way to look at the definition of adjectives is that an adjective tells us
more and gives us extra information about something. For example, if someone
said: “It’s a warm day”, the adjective warm is giving us extra information about
the noun day. What are adjectives? Adjectives are words that make sentences
more interesting and add spice to writing.
Adjectives Position – Where to Position an Adjective?
Normally, adjectives are positioned before the noun that they
describe: the yellow ribbon, the heavy box. These adjectives are
said to be attributive, meaning they qualify the nouns. However,
if a linking verb such as be or seem is used, the adjective
becomes predicative and can be placed after the noun: the
ribbon is yellow, the box seems heavy.

Attributive adjectives are used like this:

Poor, sick Robert won’t be coming to work today, he has a bad

cold.

It takes longer to get there on the two-lane bumpy road than on

the new fast highway.
Adjective Degrees – What are Adjective Degrees?
Adjectives can be used to describe different degrees of
comparison about something. For example, we can say that
something is large, but we could also say it is larger (than
something else) and the largest (of all) when comparing it to
other things. These terms seem complicated, but they are just a
way of using adjectives to compare one thing to another. Thus,
we can breakdown adjectives into the following degree groups:

Positive Adjectives: small, old, fast.

Comparative Adjectives: smaller, older, faster.

Superlative Adjectives: smallest, oldest, fastest.

I am small. The old men. The fast runner.

Examples of comparative adjectives:

Smaller
Older
Faster
I am smaller than you. The older men knew more than the
younger men. The faster runner won the race.
Examples of superlative adjectives:

Smallest
Oldest
Fastest
Bilbo was the smallest of all hobbits. She is the oldest woman in
America. Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet.

As you can see, a positive adjective can become a comparative

one by adding “er” and a superlative adjective by adding “est”.
However, a small group of adjectives do not follow this rule.
Those that don’t are called irregular comparative and
superlative adjectives. For example, the adjective good in its
comparative form is better, not good(er), and is best in its
superlative form, not good(est). Other examples include: far,
farther, farthest and bad, worse, worst.

Examples of irregular comparative and superlative adjectives:

Good, Better, Best

Bad, Worse, Worst
Far, Further, Furthest
Shakespeare is good, but Mark Twain is much better. However,
Hemingway is best of all.
In addition, some adjectives will not change at all when used as
comparative or superlative. Usually, these will take the addition
of the words ‘more’ and ‘most’ to make the comparison.

Examples:

I am an interesting person (positive)

He is more interesting than you (Comparative)
Sylvia Plath is the most interesting of all poets (Superlative)
Other examples:

Beautiful
More beautiful
Most beautiful
Intelligent,
More intelligent
Most intelligent
Practical
More practical
Most practical
Amy was beautiful, but Jo was more intelligent. Beth was
certainly more practical than Jo and Amy However, Meg was
the most practical, beautiful and intelligent of all the March
sisters
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