Types of adjectives

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But…. it is better to be good that to be ugly. Oscar Wilde

Adjectives

• Adjectives describe noun and are used in front of nouns. They have the same form for singular and plural. They do not change for male and female.
• We use adjectives to say how something is, seems, becomes, looks, feels, sounds, tastes or smells.

• Nilufar is kind
• Saida felt angry
• Zumrad seems shy
• It’s getting cold
• That smells wonderful!!!
• Barno looks sad

• Order of adjectives
• 1.Opinion: lovely, difficult, heavy
• 2. Size: large, long, short
• 3. Age: old, second –hand, brand-new
• 4. Shape: round, square, triangle
• 5. Temperature: hot, cold, warm
• 6. Colour: green, blue, purple
• 7. Material: wooden, plastic, silk
• 8. Purpose (what is for?): swimming pool
• 9. Final noun: swimming pool

Examples:

• An old leather football boot.
• (age, material, purpose, noun)
• A lovely green silk shirt.
• (opinion, colour, material, noun)

Adjectives ending –ing describe something that we are reacting to (outside us). Adjectives ending –ed desribe our feelings and reactions (inside us).

• My work was tiring. It made me tired.
• This film is interesting. I’m interested in the film.

Adjectives

• Morphological characteristics
• Syntactical characteristics.

Morphological characteristics

• Making comparisons
• A) Positives
• B) Comparatives
• C) Superlatives

¤Comparatives compare two separate things. Aziza is a better player than Dildora. One syllable: - er big-bigger, dry-drier, brave-braver Two or more syllables: more more modern, more interesting

¤Superlatives compare one thing

• ¤Superlatives compare one thing
• Feruza is the best player in the team.
• One syllable: -est
• long-the longest, big – the biggest
• Two or more syllables: most
• modern-the most modern,
• interesting-the most interesting

Note

• The (definite article) is used with superlatives.
• The + Superlatives

Irregular forms

• Good better the best
• Bad worse the worst
• Far farther/further the farthest
• the furthest
• little less the least
• Much/many more the most

Syntactical characteristics

• An attribute
• A predicative
• A little fat chap thrust out his under lip and the tall
• fellow frowned. (Mansfield) Attribute
• Laura was terribly nervous. (Mansfield) Predicative

Morphological composition of the adjectives

• Simple good, red, black
• Derivative beautiful, foolish, unimportant
• Compound short-sleeved, badly-behaved

Classification of adjectives

• Qualitative
• soft, necessary, high, warm, important
• Relative
• wooden, Italian, monthly, plastic

• You are incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, adorably beautiful.
• Rupert Brooke