Adjective

What is an adjective?
• Adjectives are words that describe or modify other words.
• Adjectives are used to identify or quantify individual people and unique
things.
• Adjective tells us more and gives us extra information about something.
• Usually positioned before the noun or pronoun that they modify.

• They live in a big, beautiful house.

• Since it’s a hot day, Lisa is wearing a sleeveless.
• The mountaintops are covered in sparkling.
• On her birthday, Lisa received an antique vase filled with fragrant.
Types of Adjectives
• Articles
• Possessive adjectives
• Demonstrative adjectives
• Coordinate adjectives
• Numbers adjectives
• Interrogative adjectives
• Indefinite adjectives
• Attributive adjectives
Article (a, an, and the)
• Because they are used to discuss non-specific things and
people, a and an are called indefinite articles.
• I’d like a
• Let’s go on an

• The word the is called the definite article. It’s the only definite article,
and it is used to indicate very specific people or things:
• Please give me a banana. I’d like the one with the green stem.
• Let’s go on an adventure. The Grand Canyon mule ride sounds perfect!
Possessive adjectives
• Possessive adjectives also function as possessive pronouns.
• My
• Your
• His
• Her
• Its
• Our
• Their
Coordinate adjectives
• Coordinate adjectives are separated with commas or the word and,
and appear one after another to modify the same noun.
• In phrases with more than two coordinate adjectives, the
word and always appears before the last one.
• The sign had big, bold, and bright letters.

• Some adjectives that appear in a series are not coordinate.

• The green delivery truck.

• To eliminate confusion, just insert the word and between them.

Numbers adjectives
• When they’re used in sentences, numbers are almost always
adjectives.
• “How many?”

• The stagecoach was pulled by a team of six

• He ate 23 hotdogs during the contest, and was sick afterwards.
Interrogative adjectives
• Which, what, and whose
• Modify nouns.
• All three of these are used to ask questions.

• Which option sounds best to you?

• What time should we go?
• Whose socks are those?
Indefinite adjectives
• Indefinite adjectives are used to discuss non-specific things.
• Any, many, no, several, few.

• There are no bananas left in the fruit bowl.

• I usually read the first few pages of a book before I buy it.
• We looked at several cars before deciding on the best one for our family.
Attributive adjectives
• Attributive adjectives talk about specific traits, qualities, or features.
There are different kinds of attributive adjectives:
• Observation adjectives
• Size and shape adjectives
• Age adjectives denote specific age in numbers, as well as general ages.
• Color adjective
• Origin adjectives
• Material adjectives
• Qualifier adjectives
Find the adjective or adjectives that fit in each of the blanks best.

We visited the museum, where we saw ____________ artifacts.

• A lot of
• Ancient
• John’s
• A room filled with
I received ______________ awards at the ceremony today.
• The manager’s
• Two
• Information about
• Motivation at the
Please get me a bag of ____________ apples.
• Interesting
• Ripe red
• Oranges and
• Real
The president sat in a _______________ chair.
• Important
• Barber’s
• Funny
• Leather
________________ weather is the norm in San Francisco.
• Blue
• Big
• Foggy
• The best
Adjective Degrees
• What are adjective degrees?
• Adjectives degree groups:
• Positive: small, old, fast
• Comparative: smaller, older, faster
• Superlative: smallest, oldest, fastest

Irregular comparative and superlative:

• Good, better, best
• Bad, worse, worst
• Far, further, furthest
Order of adjective
• I love that really big old green antique car that is always parked at the
end of the street.
• My sister has a beautiful big white wolf.
• A big square blue box.
• My small new red sleeping bag.
• A disgusting pink plastic ornament.
Adjective clause
Which, who(m), whose, that, where, and when
Adjective clause as subject
• Who: people Which: things
• That: both, people or things
I thank the man
He helped me
I thank the man who helped me

The book on the table

The book is mine
My book on the table?
The book on the table that’s mine
The book which on the table is mine
Adjective clause as verb
• Who(m): used for people that, which
The man was Mr. Grata
I saw him
The man who(m) Mr. Grata saw was him
The man was Mr. Grata who(m) I saw
The man who(m) I saw was Mr. Grata

The book was good

I read it
The book whom I read is good (?)
The book which good I read it
The book which I read was good.
Adjective clause as preposition
• Who(m)
• That

He is the man
I told you about him
He is the man whom I told you about
He is the man about whom I told you.
Whose  possession
• His, her, its, their
• Connected to a noun
• Placed at the beginning of adj. Clause

I know the girl

Her motorbike was stolen

I know the girl whose motorbike was stolen

I apologized to the woman

I spilled her coffee
I apologized to the woman whose (the) coffee I spilled
Where  to modify a place
• The building is very old
• He lives there

The building is very old where he lives there

The building is very old where he lives
The building where he lives is very old.
When  modify time
There was a time
Dinosaurs dominated the earth then
There was a time when dinosaurs dominated the earth.
Choose 15 question from number 1 to
18.
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