1. Adjective

2. Definition
• Adjectives are words that
describe or modify another
person or thing in the sentence.

3. For example:
• A wooden
chair

4. • A beautiful
flower

5. • A new
Lamborghini

6. • Some fresh
vegetables

7. Your turn now(1)
• Some/three
thick books

8. Adjectives can be formed
by adding:
• able • ish
• al • ive
• ar • ful
• ary • less
• ate • ly
• en • some
• ible • ous
• ic • y

9. For example:
reasonable foolish
national talkative
regular careful
imaginary fearless
legitimate lovely
wooden quarrelsome
flexible cautious
energetic healthy

10. Adjective patterns
• Adjectives expressing
emotion or desire are usually
followed by an infinitive.
Such as: sorry, glad, happy,
anxious, eager, curious,
(un)willing, reluctant.

11. • Present participles & past
participles also follow the same
pattern.
• Present participles:delighting,
interesting, surprising.
• Past participles:pleased,
delighted, shocked.

12. For example:
• We are glad to know that you
have recovered.
• I am pleased to meet you.
• The crying baby is my sister.

13. Personal qualities
• kind, good, bad, nice, naughty,
wise, foolish, cruel
may be used in any of these
patterns:
You were kind to help us.
It was kind of you to help us.
How kind of you to help us.

14. Impersonal Adjectives
• Necessary, dangerous, easy,
difficult, (im)possible, important,
essential, etc are used in this
pattern:
It was easy (for him) to work out
the problem.

15. Which of the following
clauses are correct?
1a. little brown house
b. brown little house b
2a. Italian red sports car b
b. red Italian sports car

16. Order of Adjective:
Ⅰ Determiners Ⅴ Color
Ⅵ Origin
Ⅱ Observation Ⅶ Material
Ⅲ Size & shape Ⅷ Qualifier
Ⅳ Age

17. More examples:
delicious Some delicious
Thai Thai food
some
food

18. Your turn now(2a)
hair Her long, black
her hair.
black
long

19. Your turn now(2b)
my My lazy,
younger selfish, fat,
lazy younger
selfish brother.
fat
brother

20. Adjective clause
• If a group of words
containing a subject and
verb acts as an adjective,
it is called an Adjective
Clause

21. For example:
• My sister, who
is much older
than I am, is a
computer
engineer.

22. Adjective Phrase
• If an adjective clause is
stripped of its subject and
verb, the resulting
modifier becomes an
Adjective Phrase

23. For example:
• He is the
man who is
keeping my
family in
the
poorhouse.

24. Position of Adjectives
• In a sentence, adjectives
nearly always appear
immediately before the noun
or noun phrase that they
modify.

25. For example:
• Stella is a careful girl.
• It is a red book.

26. Degree of Adjective
• Positive
• Comparative than
• The Superlative

27. For example:
Positive Comparative Superlative
rich richer richest
lovely lovelier loveliest
beautiful more beautiful most beautiful

28. Irregular comparative &
superlative forms
Positive Comparative Superlative
good better best
bad worse worst
far further furthest
little less least

29. Adjective & preposition
about it?
• Are you
sure of his
good at honesty?
• She is tennis.
fond of
interested
in

30. Adjective & preposition
absent from different from independent of
busy with excited about keen on
certain free from loyal to
about/of
common to hard on similar to

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