ADJECTIVE

ADJECTIVE
WHAT IS ADJECTIVE?

-A word that describe a noun or pronoun.

-Adjective are one of the four major word classes,along with nouns,verbs and
adverbs.

Example for adjective:

 Big,small,blue,old,rich and nice.

They give us more information about people,animal or things represented by nouns

and pronouns.
Example:-
Example:-

 That’s
That’s aa big
big house
house

 Look
Look at
at the
the grey
grey house
house

 Some
Some dogs
dogs have
have long
long tails
tails

 She
She is
is tall
tall

MEANING OF ADJECTIVE

What is adjective mean???

Adjective
Adjective give
give us
us more
more information.They
information.They modify
modify or
or describe
describe feature
feature and
and
qualities
qualities of
of people,animals
people,animals and
and things.
things.
 EXAMPLES MEANING
 I am fond of ice cream Relations between people and things . These
 Cairo is different from Alexandria adjectives usually require a word or phrase
 His car is similar to mine (complement) to complete their meaning.

OTHER EXAMPLE:-
 Keen (on)
 Near(to)
 Aware (of)
 He’s generous Descriptions of people and things in terms of
 She’s a kind woman their actions.
 The waiter was very polite

OTHER EXAMPLE:-
 Talkative
 Cruel
 Cooperative
 Helpful
 Useful
 That’s an old house Features that will lost a long time or win
 The Olympic stadium is big not change (permanent)

OTHER EXAMPLE:-
 Tall
 Old
 Good
 Rough
 True
 Ugly
 Red
 heavy
 Anyone hungry? Lunch is nearly ready. States and conditions that can change.
 It’s so cold in Nick’s house.

OTHER EXAMPLE:-
 Absent >>Thirsty
 Ill >>Angry
 Dry
 Full
 Lonely
 Wet
 Hot
 I saw a great French film last night.  Classifying people and things into
 I don’t like modern paintings. types.
 I live in a detached house

OTHER EXAMPLES:-
 Organic(vegetables)
 Impressionist(painter)
 Wild(salmon)
 OPPOSITENESS
Most common adjectives are members of a pair of opposite (antonyms).

 Beautiful -> ugly

 Dead -> Alive
 Happy -> sad
 Rough -> smooth
 Dry -> wet
 Cold ->hot
 Heavy -> light
 GRADABLE AND UNGRADABLE
Many pairs of opposites are gradable.They have different degrees of the same
future.

SMALL
 This suitcase is extremely small
 This suitcase is very small
 This suitcase is quite small

HOT
 It was reasonably hot in Italy this summer.
 It was pretty hot in Italy this summer.
 It was extremely hot in Italy this summer.
One type of adjective is not gradable.These are the adjectives that we use
classify people and things into types

EXAMPLE:-
 These vegetables are organic
 I like salmon especially it is wild