This document provides information about adjectives including their characteristics, order of use when modifying nouns, comparative and superlative forms, exceptions to the rules, and examples distinguishing adjectives from other parts of speech like nouns and pronouns. It includes objectives, definitions of adjectives, explanations of comparative and superlative forms, irregular adjectives, choosing the correct adjective, misused words, comparisons within groups, and assignments for students to practice identifying and forming adjectives.

1. INTRODUCTION
Cute, handsome, intelligent, interesting,
beautiful, bad, nice, cheap, heavy, easy or
difficult are some of the words teenagers use
to describe a situation, event, task or person.
Teenagers usually talk about different topics.
They tend to compare each music genre, TV
program, singer or actor. They also like to
share information about authors of songs,
bands, books of their interest. Besides, some
of them learn adjectives to talk with their
classmates to give either negative or positive
attributes to them.

2. OBJECTIVES
 To help students to get more information about the
usage of adjectives, let them know about its
features, usual order, and rules to make
comparisons, include the exception of the
adjectives,
 To clarify how to choose the correct adjective
according to the context, and how to identify it
among pronouns and nouns in sentences.

3. ADJECTIVES
The word adjective brings to mind the following
characteristics:
 Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns by telling
which, what kind of, whose or how many.
 An adjective can be a word a phrase or a clause.
 Verbs have an adjective form called a participle.
 All possessive words are adjectives.

4.  One or more adjectives can modify a noun.
Usually, no more than three or four adjectives are
used to describe the same noun:
Order of the adjectives:
Number, Characteristic, Size, Shape, Age, Color,
Origin, Noun
Ex. A beautiful new green Italian suit
Three big long red pencils

5. COMPARATIVE FORM AND
SUPERLATIVE FORM OF
ADJECTIVES
 We use the comparative form of
adjectives when we compare two
persons, things or events.
 We use the superlative form of
adjectives when we compare three or
more things.

6. COMPARATIVE FORM
Short adjectives = adjective + -er
Examples: Shorter than
fatter than
taller than
Long adjectives = More +adjective + than
Examples: More intelligent than
More difficult than
More handsome than

7. SUPERLATIVE FORM
Short adjective = the + adjective + -est
Examples: The longest
The cheapest
The loudest
Long adjective= the + most + adjective
Examples: The most interesting
The most exciting
The most expensive

8. Certain adjectives are exceptions and do not follow
the other rules. You are probably already familiar
with these irregular adjective forms.
Possitive Comparative Superlative
(One) (Two) (Three or more)
Bad worse worst
Good better best
Little less least

9. CHOOSING THE CORRECT ADJECTIVE
MISSUSED WORDS
 Farther/farthest a measurable distance
 Further/furthest into depth
 Ex. China is farther away from here than England.
 I need further information about your work
experience.
COMPARISONS WITHIN A GROUP

Ex. Mrs. Grebe is better than any teacher in school.
Mrs. Grebe is better than any other teacher in the school.
 INAPROPRIATE USE OF THE SUPERLATIVE
Be sure to choose how many things are being compared.

10. DISTINGUISHING ADJECTIVES FROM NOUNS
AND PRONOUNS
Many times the same word can be used as different
parts of speech. You cannot tell what part of
speech a word is until you determine its use in a
sentence.

11. EXAMPLES
Pro.
 Each of the players did  I exchanged the book for
well. his. ( Pro.)
Adj. Adj.
 Each player performed  That is his book.
well.
N. N
 This tire is a radial tire.  Mary is my best friend.
Adj. Adj.
 This tire marks were  Mary’s hair always looks
examined attractive.

12. ASSIGNMENT
 Underline any adjectives in the following sentences:
 Did you see the tall, skinny, girl on the diving board?
 My sister Maude is tall and skinny.
 Seven unhappy children were crying at the overcrowded
beach.
 Having had a miserable, depressing day, I walked to the bus
stop in the pouring rain.
 After a long morning the tense, understaffed accounting group
left for a much-needed lunch.
 He is the friendliest, most sincere person I know.
 Where’s my dirty, ragged high school sweater?
 Over the muddy river, through the spooky woods, and pass
the old haunted house is how we get to Grandmother’s house.
 Most people don’t like disorganized, boring English classes.
 She has seventy baseball cards that were worth several
dollars each.

13. ASSIGNMENT
 Write the comparative and the superlative form of the adjectives.
 Possitive Comparative Superlative
 Tall
 Efficient
 Good
 Busy
 Big
 Little
 Beautiful
 Unique
 Strong
 Witty
 Modern
 Durable
 Tan
 Difficult
 Merry
 Perfect
 Friendly
 Successful