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Module: Grammar Lesson 3 Date : Friday 11/ 6th /2023

Lecture: Adjectives Level : 1st Year Tech Eng

-Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns (people, places, things, or animals) or pronouns.
They describe the noun by telling us its size, shape, age, colour, etc. Adjectives usually come before the
noun or pronoun, or sometimes they can come after it.
Position of Adjectives
1- Adjectives coming before nouns are attributive adjectives
E.g: Today, we have blue sky.
2- Adjectives coming after nouns are predicative adjectives
E.g: The sky is blue.
3- An adjective can take up any position in a sentence
E.g: His big house must be expensive to maintain.

Kinds of Adjectives
Descriptive adjectives are the most numerous of the different types of adjectives. These adjectives
escribe nouns that refer to action, state, or quality (careless, dangerous, sad, white, big, English).

 E.g green vegetables

Adjective of quantity
An adjective of quantity tells us the number (how many) or amount (how much) of a noun.

E.g: He has eaten three apples.

E.g: I don’t have much money.
Demonstrative adjective
A demonstrative adjective (this, that, these, those) shows the noun it modifies is singular or plural and
whether the position of the noun is near or far from the person who is speaking or writing. A
demonstrative adjective also points out a fact about the noun.
E.g: This red balloon is mine and those three yellow ;ones are yours.
 Possessive adjective
 A possessive adjective/pronouns expresses possession of a noun by someone or something.

Possessive adjectives/pronouns

Singular Plural

my our

your your

his their
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its their

o E.g: Our grandmothers were classmates.

Comparison of Adjectives

+Y
comparative superlative
One syllable Adjective+ er+ than the+ adjective+ est
Ahmed is taller than his sister Ahmed is the tallest among all his friends
One syllable We double consonant and we We double consonant and we add the+
(consonant+ vowel+ add er+ than adjective+ est Summer is the hottest season of
consonant) Hot/big the year
CVC Summer is hotter than spring

Two syllables ending in (-y)

Happy==Happier than The happiest

Multi-syllables (two or more) less/ more+ adjective+ than- the least /The most+ adjective
or participle adjectives Physics is more difficult than physics is / / the most difficult subject
English

Equality adjectives As+ adjective+ as

Mohammed is as intelligent as
his friend Islem

Irregular adjectives
adjective Comparative Superlative
good Better than The best
bad Worse than The worst
far Farther than The farthest

Forming Adjectives
ed ing Able/ible Al/ial Ful less ish ive ous ic y
polluted interesting invisible presidential beautiful priceless childish creative famous classic wealth

Adjectives Function as Nouns

Some adjectives are used as nouns to describe groups of people. Each of these groups follows the
determiner the (definite article). There are the blind, the deaf, the elderly, the homeless, the old,
the rich, the sick, the young, etc.
E.g : They provide help to the homeless.
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