Adjectives are used to describe and provide details about nouns. They help readers visualize and form opinions. Adjectives describe qualities like size, color, or number. They are essential for making meanings clearer. Adjectives are widely used in descriptive writing, advertising, everyday speech, crime reports, insurance claims, and flirting. They can precede or follow verbs and come in many forms like suffixes or compounds. There are different types of adjectives including descriptive, proper, quantity, order, demonstrative, possessive, interrogative, and compound adjectives.

1. ADJECTIVES
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2. Purpose of adjectives:
• Adjectives are used in descriptive writing.
• Adjectives help the reader/listener to visualize
the nouns/pronouns.
• Adjectives help the reader listener form an
opinion about something or someone.
• Adjectives can describe quality, quantity,
order, position, differentiate between and
point out ownership.
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3. It is almost impossible to communicate
effectively without the use of adjectives.
Adjectives are added to nouns to
state what kind, what colour, which one or
how many. Adjectives modify nouns and are
necessary to make the meanings of
sentences clearer or more exact. My lesson
was a basic introduction to adjectives, and
future lessons can
include adjective phrases, adjective clauses
and degrees of comparison.
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4. Where are adjectives used in the real world:
Advertisement:
Delicious, smooth and cream-filled wafers
coated with full-cream chocolate and
sprinkled with crispy-toasted pecan
nuts.
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5. Where are adjectives used in the real world:
Everyday speech:
That brainless, naive blond girl at the
expensive supermarket gave me the
wrong change.
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6. Where are adjectives used in the real
world:
Identifying a suspect of a crime:
He was skinny, dark-haired and unshaven.
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7. Where are adjectives used in the real
world:
Describing an accident to your insurance
company:
I did not notice that the light-blue car was
changing into my narrow lane, and before I
knew it, he drove right into my shiny new car.
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8. Where are adjectives used in the real
world:
Flirting with a man/woman:
Hi, you are a gorgeous young woman and I
would really like to show you this romantic
little restaurant, where we can enjoy ice-cold
beers.
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9. What are adjectives?
• Adjectives describe or qualify nouns and
pronouns.
• Adjectives add interest and colour to
sentences by describing or giving more
information.
• Adjectives tell you more about nouns and
pronouns, and the details help the reader to
picture what is happening.
• Adjectives are used in descriptive writing.
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10. Discussion and examples of adjectives:
Adjectives can come before a noun:
• “But the hideous corpse shuffling slowly,
painstakingly over the sodden ground of the
nearby woods paid no attention to the rain”.
Adjectives can follow a linking verb, such as is, am,
are, was, were:
• The corpse is hideous.
• The ground is sodden.
• The woods are nearby.
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11. Discussion and examples of
adjectives:
Adjectives can be formed from nouns:
• “It turned its eyeless skull this way”.
(It turned its skull without eyes this way).
• The corpse made history. It is now historical
woods.
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12. Discussion and examples of
adjectives:
Adjectives can be formed/recognised by certain
suffixes (endings):
• “The pitiless executer had carried out the
sentence”. (The executer had no Pity).
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13. Adjectives can be formed/recognised
by certain suffixes (endings):
• able – comfortable.
• ant – constant.
• ary – ordinary.
• en – proven.
• ent – permanent.
• ful- hopeful.
• ible – convertible.
• ish – feverish.
• ive – possessive.
• less – painless.
• ory – preparatory.
• ous – adventurous.
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14. Different kinds of adjectives:
Descriptive adjectives or adjectives of quality:
• The dull, grey afternoon.
• A few rotting rags hung from its ancient
bones.
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15. Different kinds of adjectives:
Proper adjectives:
• The Cape Town beaches are scattered with
shells.
• The August winds are good for flying kites.
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16. Different kinds of adjectives:
Adjectives of quantity/number:
• “Nearly two hundred years had passed since it
had been a living, breathing being.”
• Many, several, few, some, most corpses.
• Each, every, neither corpse.
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17. Different kinds of adjectives:
Adjectives of order:
• He came first, second, last in the race.
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18. Different kinds of adjectives:
Demonstrative adjectives:
• This, that corpse.
• These, those corpses.
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19. Different kinds of adjectives:
Possessive adjectives:
• My, its, his, her, our, their, your missing left
arm.
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20. Different kinds of adjectives:
Interrogative adjectives:
• Which, what, whose missing left arm.
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21. Different kinds of adjectives:
Compound adjectives:
• “Rage that fuelled its ever-increasing
strength”.
• Well-deserved death.
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