ADJECTIVE

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 ADJECTIVES
How does it look like?
 -able/-ible – adorable, invisible, responsible, uncomfortable
 -al – educational, gradual, illegal, nocturnal, viral
 -an – American, Mexican, urban
 -ar – cellular, popular, spectacular, vulgar
 -ent – intelligent, potent, silent, violent
 -ful – harmful, powerful, tasteful, thoughtful
 -ic/-ical – athletic, energetic, magical, scientific
 ADJECTIVES
How does it look like?
 -ine – bovine, canine, equine, feminine, masculine
 -ile – agile, docile, fertile, virile
 -ive – informative, native, talkative
 -less – careless, endless, homeless, timeless
 -ous – cautious, dangerous, enormous, malodorous
 -some – awesome, handsome, lonesome, wholesome
 ADJECTIVES
Adjectives have 3 distinctive features:
1. They immediately precede the nouns that
they modify
2. They have comparative and superlative forms
3. They can be used as predicative adjectives
 ... slow ...
 They immediately precede the nouns that they
modify
Slow car should stay in the right lane.

 They have comparative and superlative forms

Comparative : slower
Superlative : the slowest

 They can be used as predicative adjectives

The car is slow.
Let’s find other examples ...
 COMPARATIVE -
SUPERLATIVE
BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
strong stronger the strongest
fast faster the fastest
sweet
loud
weak
small

Summarize!
We form comparative and superlative forms of
one-syllable adjectives with –er and –est ending.
 COMPARATIVE -
SUPERLATIVE
BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
beautiful more beautiful the most beautiful
elegant
expensive
nutritious
impossible
mysterious
magnificent

Summarize!
We form comparative and superlative forms of
three or more-syllable adjectives with more and
the most.
WHAT ABOUT TWO-SYLLABLE
ADJECTIVES?
handsome?
clever?
polite?
A few adjectives can even use both ways.
• Susan is politer than Alice.
Susan is the politest student in her class.
• Susan is more polite than Alice.
She is the most polite person I know.
 -er  the ...-est
Two-syllable adjectives end in -le and
-y
BASE COMPARATIV SUPERLATIVE
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simple simpler the simplest
gentle
noble
BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIV
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happy happier the happiest
noisy
pretty
more  the
most
Adjectives that derived from verbs
ending in -ing or -ed.

BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

charming more charming the most charming
trusting
tempting

BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

respected more respected the most respected
rejected
exploited
Irregular Comparative and
Superlative Forms

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good better best
bad worse worst
little less least
much
many more most
some
far further furthest
 BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE E
sad
valuable
X
sunny E
patient
improved R
normal
strange
C
bad I
available
shady S
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LIST OF ADJECTIVES:
http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-adjectives.html
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 ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
We often use two or three adjectives to modify a
single noun. For example, consider the following
phrase:
huge old white house
Here the adjectives huge, old, and white all
modify the noun, house.
When multiple adjectives modify the same
noun, there is a fixed left-to-right order to the
adjectives based on their meaning.
 SEQUENCE
OF MULTIPLE ADJECTIVES
I. DETERMINERS eg. the, a/an, this, that,
II. OPINION eg. beautiful, interesting
III. SIZE AND SHAPE eg.large, round
IV. AGE eg. young, old, new, ancient
V. COLOR eg. red, black, pale
VI. ORIGIN French, American, Canadian
VII. MATERIAL eg. woolen, metallic, wooden
 THE ROYAL ORDER OF ADJECTIVES 
DETER MATERI
OPINION PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION ORIGIN NOUN
MINER AL
  Size Shape Age Color  

a beautiful old Italian car

an expensive antique silver mirror

long-
four gorgeous red silk roses
stemmed

her short black hair

our big old English sheepdog

those square wooden boxes

that dilapidated little cabin

several enormous young American players

some delicious Thai food

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PUT INTO THE RIGHT ORDER
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Italian / sports / fantastic CAR
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1.
2. French / nice / old TEACHER
3. alarm / red / small CLOCK R
4. African / delicious / green GRAPES
5. plastic / red / new CHAIR C
6.
7.
large / grey / aged CAT
modern / black / long DESK
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8. blue / tiny / ancient BIKE S
ONLINE PRACTICE: E
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl_adjectiveorder4.html
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