The document provides an overview of adjectives in English, defining them as words used to describe nouns and enrich the reader's understanding. It includes various activities to help learners identify, match, and classify adjectives, emphasizing the importance of order and types of adjectives. The content is part of a multidisciplinary flipped learning project funded by the Erasmus+ program.

1. ADJECTIVES IN ENGLISHprepared by Joanna Wilczyńska
Multidisciplinary Flipped Learning with ICT
Erasmus+ KA2 Project
FLwICT
(2015 – 2017)
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2. What is an adjective?
The simplest definition of an adjective is …
An adjective
is
a word used to describe
a noun
IT GIVES THE READER EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT IT

3. Activity 1. Match adjectives with nouns

4. Activity 1. Match adjectives with nouns

5. When you write the noun "dog"
you give the reader basic information.
What is an adjective?

6. When you add an adjective,
you give the reader information that
they can use
to create a more detailed picture of the
dog.

7. In this way, adjectives transform the
general idea of a dog
into the more specific idea of a "muddy
old sheep dog".

8. Activity 2. Find the adjectives

9. Answers:

10. Add adjectives

11. Add adjectives
scared
frightened
small
temporary
curious
brave
crazy
fast
electric
old-fashioned
porcelain
new
big
sleezy
dangerous
wild
happy
relaxed
satisfied
excited
modern
huge

12. Activity 2. Can you recognize an adjective when you see one?
Underline the adjectives in the following sentences.
1.He is an honest man.
2. The wretched girl sat in the back row.
1.The racing boat zoomed over the calm surface of the lake.
2.Our adventurous tour guide led us up the rocky, mountainous path.
3.The tall, creamy, delicious milkshake melted on the counter while the
inattentive waiter flirted with the pretty cashier.
4.Jeanne's two fat Siamese cats hog the electric blanket on cold winter
evenings.

13. 1.He is an honest man.
2. The wretched girl sat in the back row.
1.The racing boat zoomed over the calm surface of the lake.
2.Our adventurous tour guide led us up the rocky, mountainous path.
3.The tall, creamy, delicious milkshake melted on the counter while the
inattentive waiter flirted with the pretty cashier.
4.Jeanne's two fat Siamese cats hog the electric blanket on cold winter
evenings.
Answers:

14. Sometimes we use more than one adjective in front of a noun.
• We often have 2 adjectives in front of a noun:
• We sometimes have 3 adjectives in front of a noun, but this is unusual.
• It is very unusual to have more than 3 adjectives.
It’s a nice
comfortable car.
It’s a nice
comfortable
convertible car
How many adjectives before a noun?

15. Some adjectives give a general opinion.
BIG
Some adjectives give a specific opinion.
COMFORTABLE
Order of Adjectives
Place
general opinion adjectives
before
specific opinion adjectives
Use a comma
when writing similar adjectives.
“It was a dark, gloomy night”.
However,
if the adjectives
have different meanings,
skip the comma.
“It was a dark sad night”
A big comfortable car



Adjectives cannot be written in any order. There are rules.
When you list several adjectives in a row, you have to put them in the right order.

16. Types of adjectives
NUMBER A number adjective gives information about how many of the noun.
Five, several
OPINION An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree
with you). Silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult, interesting, stupid
SIZE A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is.
Large, tiny, enormous, little, big, thin
AGE An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is.
Ancient, new, young, old, modern
SHAPE A shape adjective describes the shape of something.
Square, round, flat, rectangular
COLOUR A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something.
Blue, pink, reddish, grey
ORIGIN An origin adjective describes where something comes from.
French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek, beach
MATERIAL A material adjective describes what something is made from.
Wooden, metal, cotton, paper, plastic
PURPOSE A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with “-
ing”. Sleeping (as in “sleeping bag”), roasting (as in “roasting tin”)

17. Types of adjective
opinion size age shape colour origin material
Activity 4. What type of adjectives are these? Can you make a sentence?
Activity 3. Classify the adjectives according to their type.
It’s a beautiful big new square brown Indian wooden box.
BEAUTIFUL - BIG - BROWN - INDIAN - NEW - SQUARE - WOODEN
It’s a table.
opinion size age shape colour origin material purpose
lovely big old round brown English wooden coffee

18. Adjectives describing the noun CAR
It's a convertible car
It's a black carIt's a new car
It's an expensive car
It's a beautiful car.
It’s a comfortable car
It’s a big car
It’s a German car
It’s an elegant carIt’s a sports car

19. Can you describe the car using sentences with more than one
adjective?

20. Answers:
It’s an expensive new car.
It’s a modern fast German car.
It’s a convertible sports big black car.

21. Thanks to Maria Vidal