Functional English Presentation

2. TOPIC

5. The 3 Different Degrees of adjectives:
The three degrees of an adjective are positive, comparative and
superlative.
A positive adjective is a normal adjective that’s used to describe, not
compare. For example: “This is good soup” and “I am funny.”
A comparative adjective is an adjective that’s used to compare two
things (and is often followed by the word than). For example: “This soup is
better than that salad” or “I am funnier than her.”
A superlative adjective is an adjective that’s used to compare three or
more things, or to state that something is the most. For example: “This is
the best soup in the whole world” or “I am the funniest out of all the other
bloggers.”

6. Adjectives:
An adjective is a word tells us more about a noun.(By ''noun'' we include pronouns and
noun phrases.)
An adjective ''qualifies'' or ''modifies'' a noun.
For Example:
(a big dog).
(a big city)
Adjectives can be used before a noun
For Example:
(I like Chinese food)

7. Types of adjectives
> Adjective of Quality
> Adjective of Quantity
> Adjective of Number or Numeral Adjective
> Demonstrative Adjective
> Interrogative Adjectives
> Possessive Adjectives
> Distributive Adjective
> Descriptuive Adjective

8. Adjective of Quality:
Adjective of quality is also called Descriptive adjective. It shows kind or quality of a
person or thing. (Answer the question of what kind )
He is a handsome man.
He is a tall man.
They are good students

9. Adjective of Quantity:
Adjective of quantity shows how much of a thing is meant. (Answer the question how much)
I ate some rice.
He has little intelligence.
You have no sense.

10. Adjective of Number or Numeral Adjective:
Adjective of number shows how many persons or things are meant which is
reffered by a number, e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.
(Answers the questions how many)
Hand has five fingers.
All men must die.
Ahmad has four pencils.

11. Demonstrative Adjective:
Demonstrative adjective pointsout which person or thing is meant.
(Answer the question which)
That lawyer was accused by the judge.
This boy is stronger than you.
I really like those shoes.
These flowers are lovely.

12. Interrogative Adjective:
These adjectives are used to ask questions about nouns or in relation to nouns, they are
Where, What, Which and Whose.
> Where did he say he was going?
> What manner of man is he?
> Which is your favourite teacher?
> Whose book is this?

13. Possessive Adjective :
Possessive adjectives show possession. They describe to whom a
thing belongs.
>My Belonging to me > His — Belonging to him
>Their — Belonging to them >Your — Belonging to you
>Our — Belonging to us
All these adjectives, except the word his, can only be used before a
noun. You can’t just say “That’s my,” you have to say “That’s my
pen.” When you want to leave off the noun or pronoun being
modified, use these possessive adjectives instead:
>Mine >His >Hers >Theirs >Yours >Ours

14. Distributive Adjective:
 Distributive adjectives describe specific members out of a group.
These adjectives are used to single out one or more individual
items or people. Some of the most common distributive adjectives
include:
 Each Every single one of a group (used to speak about group
members individually).
 Every — Every single one of a group (used to make generalizations).
 Either — One between a choice of two.
 Any — One or some things out of any number of choices. This is also
used when the choice is irrelevant, like: “it doesn’t matter, I’ll
take any of them.”
 Examples:
 “Every rose has its thorn.”

15. Descriptive Adjective:
 A descriptive adjective is probably what you think of when you hear
the word “adjective.” Descriptive adjectives are used to describe
nouns and pronouns.
 Words like beautiful, silly, tall, annoying, loud and nice are all
descriptive adjectives. These adjectives add information and
qualities to the words they’re modifying.
 Examples:
 “The flowers have a smell” is just stating a fact, and it has no
adjectives to describe what the flowers or their smell are like.
 “The beautiful flowers have a nice smell” gives us a lot more
information, with two descriptive adjectives.
 You can say “The cat is hungry,” or “The hungry cat.” In both cases,
the word hungry is an adjective describing the cat.