This document discusses adjectives and how to classify them. It defines adjectives as words that describe or provide more information about nouns or pronouns. Adjectives can be classified as gradable or non-gradable. Gradable adjectives can vary in degree and take comparative and superlative forms, while non-gradable adjectives do not. The document also discusses attributive adjectives, compound adjectives, proper adjectives, and predicative adjectives using examples from the sentence provided.

1. ADJECTIVES
Understanding
and how to use them

2. The weary painter took of his blue,
green, and white overalls and ate a
day-old Chinese meal before he felt
ravenous.
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3. ADJECTIVE
is a word that describes
or gives more
information about nouns
or pronouns.

4. In this sentence:
The weary painter took of his blue,
green, and white overalls and ate a
day-old Chinese meal before he felt
ravenous.
The underlined words
are all adjectives.

5. ADJECTIVES can be classified as :
Gradable and Non-gradable
GRADABLE ADJECTIVES are adjectives that
can vary in degree. These adjectives can
take comparative and superlative forms
or can be accompanied by an adverb of
degree such as very.
NON-GRADABLE ADJECTIVES are
adjectives that do not take a
comparative or superlative form and
cannot be modified by an adverb of
degree.
He owns a big car.
Their car is bigger than my sister's.
Their car is the biggest in the
neighborhood.
It was a plastic car.
They live in a Georgian mansion.
We have an annual party every 3rd
of March.

6. In this sentence:
The weary painter took of his blue,
green, and white overalls and ate a
day-old Chinese meal before he felt
ravenous.

8. The weary painter
Adjectives which are placed in front of the word they
describe is called an ATTRIBUTIVE adjective.
The word WEARY describes the noun "painter."
ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVE

9. Each adjective should be separated from the next by a
comma. If it is a list of adjectives, the last adjective must
be preceded by "and."
The adjectives above are still attributive adjectives.
When listing adjectives:
blue, green, and white overalls

10. Compound adjectives are made
up of more than one word. When
two or more words are used as
an adjective, usually, it is
hyphenated. This shows that
these 2 words are acting
together as a single adjective."
COMPOUND ADJECTIVE
day-old Chinese meal
There are some nouns that can
be used to modify another noun
as an adjective. Usually, these
nouns are nationalities and start
with a capital letter.
PROPER ADJECTIVE

11. he felt ravenous
Predicative adjectives are joined to their relevant nouns
by a verb. They are so-called because they help form the
predicate of a sentence.
PREDICATIVE ADJECTIVE