ADJECTIVE

BY ASTRI DEWI PRAMESTI

WHAT ARE ADJECTIVES ?
Adjectives tell us something about people, places and things, for example:
 tall man, big dog, noisy baby
 large garden, empty room, beautiful city
 red car, hot weather, expensive watch
There are 2 basic positions for adjectives:
1. Adjective Before Noun
2. Adjective After Verb
 Adjective Before Noun
We often use more than one adjective before the noun:
- I like big black dogs.
- She was wearing a beautiful long red dress.

What is the correct order for two or more adjectives?

1. First of all, the general order is:

opinion, fact
"Opinion" is what you think about something. "Fact" is what is definitely true about something.
 a lovely new dress (not a new lovely dress)
 a boring French film (not a French boring film)
2. The "normal" order for fact adjectives is
size, shape, age, colour / origin / material / purpose.
 a small 18th-century French coffee table
 a rectangular black wooden box

3. Determiners  usually come first, even though some grammarians regard them as fact adjectives:
 articles (a, the)
 possessives (my, your...)
 demonstratives (this, that...)
 quantifiers (some, any, few, many...)
 numbers (one, two, three)
Adjective After Verb
An adjective can come after some verbs, such as: be, become, feel, get, look, seem, smell, sound
Look at the examples below
 Ram is English.
 Because she had to wait, she became impatient.
 Is it getting dark?
 The examination did not seem difficult.
 Your friend looks nice.
 This towel feels soft.
 That new film doesn't sound  interesting.
 Dinner smells good tonight.
 This milk tastes sour.
 It smells bad.
NOTE

These verbs are "stative" verbs, which express a state or change of

state, not "dynamic" verbs which express an action.
Note that some verbs can be stative in one sense (she looks beautiful | it
got hot), and dynamic in another (she looked at him | he got the
money). The above examples do not include all stative verbs.
1. Andrea had a ________ in her hair yesterday.

A. nice yellow bow

B. yellow nice bow

C. bow nice yellow

2. She lost a ________ .

D. small white cat

E. cat small white

F. white small cat

3. I bought ________ oranges.

G. great some big

H. big great some

I. some great big

4. We met ________ people at the conference.
A. very smart two
B. two very smart
C. very two smart

5. The clown was wearing a ________ hat.

D. big green-yellow
E. big green and yellow
F. yellow and green big

6. The cookies that you ________ .

G. smell delicious baked
H. baked smell delicious
I. delicious smell baked
7. Is it ________ ?
A. cold getting outside
B. getting cold outside
C. getting outside cold

8. The course you are ________ .

D. taking sounds interesting
E. sounds interesting taking
F. interesting sounds taking

9. My uncle wore a ________ to the wedding.

G. silk blue ties
H. tie blue silk
I. blue silk tie
10. Have you met that _____ next door?
A. cute boy new
B. cute new boy
C. new boy cute