ADJECTIVESMs. Shahnawaz

My uncle is an adventurous person. Loin is a wild animal. Could I have five sweet buns, please? She bought me stripped shirt. I have ash-brown hairs.

Describes nouns or pronouns

1. Descriptive adjectives: tells about kind or quality of nouns or pronouns

Pretty girl, white rose,Good student, soft dough,Large sack, funny man

TYPES OF ADJECTIVES

2. Quantifiers and 3. Ordinals

Comes before nouns to show how much and how many

Definite : they are also called as Ordinalsone, eleven, first, double, both, fifty, etc.

Indefinite : they are also known as QuantifiersAll, many, much, few, a little, any, some, etc.

I met four ladies on seventh floor.I need several envelope and some papers.

With a noun (attributive position)tall boy, soft bed

sweet voice, good bargain After certain verbs (predicative position)

be, look, feel, sound, taste, smell, seem and appear They are tall.

The bed feels soft. Bourneville tastes bitter.

Doesn’t dad look good in that shirt?

POSITION OF ADJECTIVES

POSITIVE : speaking or describing an objectShe is tall.

Idris is young. COMPARATIVE: comparing two objects

She is taller than me.Ali is younger than me.

SUPERLATIVE: comparing more than 2 objects

She is the tallest girl in school.Ismail is the youngest in the family.

COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES

Comparatives are followed by “than”

She is smarter than me.

The… the… can be used with the comparatives to say

that 2 changes happen together

The older you get, the wiser you become.

The more famous he gets, the less privacy he has.

POINTS TO REMEMBER

The is used before superlativesHe is the best singer.

Superlatives can be used without nounsWhich one is the prettiest?

He is the best.

Thank-you!