MPU 3022

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Adjectives

To talk more about nouns

Adjectives

 Adjectives are words used to tell you

more about someone or something.
 Eg. A blue sky, a round table, a cute
baby, etc
Kinds of Adjectives
 Colour of things
 Size of people or things
 Quality of people or things (adjectives
that describe shape, size or quality come
before colour adjectives)
 Origins (adjectives that describe shape,
size or quality come before adjectives of
origin).
 Classifying.
Adjectives come before the
nouns:
 a red dress
 a kind lady
 a close friend
 a sharp knife
 a sour fruit
Adjectives can come after the
described person or thing:
 Honey is sweet.
 The children are keeping quiet.
 Why are you so impatient?
 Everyone is equal before the law.
 Adjectives have lots of
endings:
 -en
 -ful  -al
 -less  -ic
 -ous  -ive
 -ty  -ish
 -ly
 -y
 -able
 -ing  -ible
 -ed
Comparisons of Adjective
 Positive forms: to compare two equal
things or persons (as……as).
 Comparative forms: to compare two
unequal things or persons (add ‘er’ or
‘more than’).
 Superlative forms: to compare three or
more things or persons (add ‘the –est’ or
‘the most’)
Possessive Adjectives
 Used to show possession
 My, your, his, her, its, our, their
 Eg. Show possession: This is my
necklace.
 Eg. Followed by nouns: her cat, their
mother.