1. GRAMMAR & STRUCTURE
Adjectives
Definition
An adjective gives more information about a noun.
Example
Dave has a red car.
adjective
Explanation
Adjectives --
• give more information about nouns.
"He drank a fine, Spanish wine."
• give information about someone's opinion.
"This is delicious food."
• give information about age.
"This is an old book."
• give information about colour.
"She is wearing a green coat."
• give information about size and measurement.
"She is wearing a short skirt."
• give information about shape.
"Dave has a round face."
• give information about origin.
"Dena has an Italian boyfriend."
• give information about characteristics.
"He is wearing a soft sweater."
• give information about what something is made of.
"He has a leather jacket."

2. • give information about purpose.
"He teaches at a driving school."
• do not change form for plural nouns.
"He has two leather jackets."
• go before the nouns they describe.
• follow the verbs "to be," "to feel," "to taste," "to smell," "to look," and "to
sound."
"This jacket feels soft."
• can show possession.
"This is my jacket."
• follow the verb "get" to show a change to the situation.
"It is 8:00 at night. It is the end of the day. The sun is gone. It is getting
dark."

3. GRAMMAR & STRUCTURE — Examples
Adjectives
Sentences using adjectives
Example Explanation Other Examples
John is a tall man. "Tall" gives Other examples of size and
information about size. measurement adjectives: short,
small, big, long, wide
John is a young "Young" gives Other examples of age adjectives:
man. information about age. old, ancient, new
John is a handsome "Handsome" gives Other examples of opinion
man. information about a adjectives: expensive, beautiful,
person's opinion of lovely, cheap, boring, delicious,
John's appearance. quiet, ugly, terrible
John is a Canadian "Canadian" gives Other examples of origin
man. information about adjectives: Japanese, Mexican,
origin, where German, Greek, Spanish, Korean,
something comes from. Taiwanese. NOTE: These words
begin with Capital Letters.
John has a blue car. "Blue" gives Other examples of colour
information about adjectives: red, white, yellow,
colour. green, black, brown
His car is blue. "His" gives information Other examples of possessive
about possession. adjectives: my, your, his, her, our,
their
John has two blue "Two blue" gives Other examples of numbers:
cars. information about the three, four, five, six blue cars

4. number. There is no
change in the adjective
form.
John has a round "Round" gives Other examples of shape
face. information about adjectives: square, triangular,
shape. circular, straight, crooked
John has a soft "Soft" gives Other examples of characteristic
face. information about the adjectives: sharp knife, hard bed,
characteristics of an solid table, gentle touch, rough
object. surface
John has a steel "Steel" gives Other examples of material
car. information about the adjectives: plastic, wooden,
material and about metal, leather, cotton
what something is
made of.
John has a racing "Racing" gives Other examples of purpose
car. information about the adjectives: baseball (bat), doll
purpose. (house), drawing (pencil), reading
(glasses)
John feels happy. "Happy" describes a Other examples of verbs that are
feeling. Adjectives followed by adjectives:
follow the verb "to to seem: dark, strange, different,
feel." new, cold
to become: cold, dark, light, tired,
angry
to taste: sweet, sour, bitter, spicy,
delicious
to look: good, bad, different, nice,
beautiful
to smell: sour, rotten, sweet,
good, bad

5. to sound: loud, quiet, interesting,
boring
to be: good, bad, new, sad, happy,
cheerful
It gets cold in the "Get + cold" describes Other examples of "get +
winter. a change in the weather adjective": get tired, get hungry,
from not cold to cold. get angry, get excited, get fat, get
old
GRAMMAR & STRUCTURE — Exercises
Adjectives
Answer the following questions to check your knowledge of adjectives.
Choose the adjectives in the following sentences.
Example
Katy is a hard worker.
Katy
worker
hard
is
The correct answer is "hard".

6. 1. This sandwich tastes delicious.
This
delicious
sandwich
tastes
2. Vera is taking a Spanish course.
Spanish
Vera
taking
course

7. 3. The CN Tower is a tall building.
tower
tall
building
is
4. My pillow is very soft.
pillow
very
is
soft
5. Grady does not like black cats.
Grady
black
cats
like
6. Choose the correctly written sentence.
We have a table wooden.
We have a wooden table.
7. Choose the correctly written sentence.
Our table is wooden.
Our wooden table is.
8. Choose the correctly written sentence.
We have two woodens tables.
We have two wooden tables.
9. Choose the correctly written sentence.
The table is Canadian maple.

8. The table is maple Canadian.
10 Choose the correctly written sentence.
.
The wooden table looks beautiful.
The wooden table beautiful looks.