one of the most common word types and integral parts of English language. This part of speech is used to modify, describe or quantify a noun or pronoun. By using adjectives you will be able to paint a clearer picture and provide more comprehensible message to the audience.

1. What is an adjective?
• A word that modifies a noun or a pronoun by providing additional
information about them.
Example:
1. There are three small black wooden tables in my cabin.
-Answer the questions how many, what size, what colour, what
material etc.
2. The food is hot and delicious.

2. TYPES OF ADJECTIVES
•DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
•DETERMINERS

3. DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
Most commonly used type of adjectives which describes the
qualities of a noun/ pronoun
-A huge dog, courageous firefighters, an annoying classmate, a
playful kitten, an intelligent speaker, three men etc.

4. DETERMINERS
Words like
-Possessives: my, our, your, his, her
-Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
-Interrogatives: What, which, whose
- Quantity words: numbers and quantity expressions like a
few, some, many, little, much.
- Articles: (a/an/the)

5. Using adjectives correctly
-ing (reason/cause) -ed (effect/result)
Bore boring bored
Confuse confusing confused
Excite exciting excited
1. My wife and I went to see a movie. The movie was ……….. So we
were………..(boring)
2. The students felt really ……..because the teacher’s lecture was
so………………! (confuse)
3. The story was…………., and the children were……..to hear it.(excite)

6. DEGREES OF COMPARISON
 The three forms positive, comparative, and superlative help to accomplish
this.
“There were three nice, fat little pigs. The first was small, the second was
smaller, and the third was the smallest of all."
• Positive adjective does not make a comparison . (In other words, the
"positive degree" is the normal form of an adjective.
• Comparative adjectives enable us to express the difference between two
people or things (larger, smaller, faster, higher) they are used in sentences in
the following pattern
• Superlative adjectives are used to compare one person or thing to several
others.

7. How to form comparative and
superlative adjectives
1. We usually add –er and –est to one-syllable words to make
comparatives and superlatives:
Old- older- oldest
Long-longer- longest
2. If an adjective ends in –e, we add –r or –st to make
comparatives and superlatives:
Nice- nicer- nicest
Large- larger- largest

8. 3. If an adjective ends in a vowel +a consonant, we double
the consonant:
Big- bigger- biggest
Fat- fatter- fattest
4. If an adjective ends in a consonant + –y, we change –y to –i
and add –er or –est:
Happy- happier- happiest
Silly- sillier- silliest

9. 5. We use more and most to make comparatives and
superlatives for two or more syllables adjectives:
Careful - more careful- most careful
Interesting- more interesting- most interesting
6. The adjectives good, bad, far and little have irregular
comparatives and superlatives:
Good- better- best
Bad- worse-worst
Far- farther/ further- farthest/ furthest.
Little- less- least