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1. Defining Adjectives
2. Adjectives Modifying Nouns
3. Adjectives Modifying Pronouns
4. Different Types of Adjectives
4.1 Personal Titles
4.2 Possessive Adjectives
4.3. The Articles
4.4. Demonstrative Adjectives
4.5. Indefinite Adjectives
4.6 Numbers
4.7 Interrogative Adjectives
4.8 Compound Adjectives
4.8.1 Compound Adjectives from Proper Nouns
4.8.2 Compound Adjectives with Quotation marks & Italics
4.8.3 Adverbs & Compound Adjectives
5. Forming Adjectives
5.1 Forming adjectives from Nouns
5.2 Forming adjectives from Verbs
5.3 Forming adjectives form adjectives
5.4 Forming adjectives from proper nouns
6. Degree of Adjectives
7. Comparison of Adjectives
8. Adjective Order
9. Coordinated Adjectives
PART 1 Presentation
Outline
Topic
1. Defining Adjectives
2. Adjectives Modifying Nouns
3. Adjectives Modifying Pronouns
4. Different Types of Adjectives
4.1 Personal Titles
4.2 Possessive Adjectives
4.3 The Articles
ADJECTIVES
Are describing words
A word whose main role is to qualify a noun
or noun phrase giving more information
about the object signified.
They give the reader more information
about a noun and pronoun and to make
your writing more interesting.
Examples
Adjectives Modify
Pronouns
Examples
It is a blue one.
Different Types of
Adjectives
1. Personal Titles
Examples
2. Possessive Adjectives
Examples
She is my sister.
The doctor is waiting for your laboratory results.
Today is our duty to prepare their coffee.
The documents are lost in his office.
3. The Articles
Examples:
A cup.
(any cup)
The cup.
(specific cup)
We need an office big enough. (any office)
We need the office clean today. (specific office)
PART 2 Presentation
Outline
Topic
4. Demonstrative Adjectives
5. Indefinite Adjectives
6. Numbers
7 Interrogative Adjectives
8 Compound Adjectives
8.1 Compound Adjectives from Proper Nouns
8.2 Compound Adjectives with Quotation marks &
Italics
8.3 Adverbs & Compound Adjectives
4. Demonstrative Adjectives
are words to demonstrate or indicate
specific things.
It shows whether the noun they refer to is
singular or plural, whether it is located
near to or far from the speaker or narrator.
4. Demonstrative Adjectives
Singula
r
This
Plural
That
Those
These
Examples:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Indefinite Adjectives
Every
Certain
Few
Another
Each
Both
Both
Many
All
Several
other
Examples:
1.
2.
3.
4.
INDEFINITE ADJECTIVES
6. Numbers
Examples:
1. Four dolphins stayed with the boat until dawn.
2.
The book has 200 pages left for me to read.
3.
The ladder had twelve steps.
7. Interrogative Adjectives
An interrogative adjective which or what
is like an interrogative pronoun, except
that it modifies a noun or noun phrase
rather than standing on its own.
Interrogative adjectives stand for the thing
we do not know.
Examples:
1.
2.
3.
4.
INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVES
7. Compound Adjectives
A compound adjective is an adjective that
comprises more than one word. They are
group of words that are not all adjectives,
but make a meaning that is just one
adjective.
Is made of two or more words together to
show that it is one adjective. Usually,
hyphens are used to link the words
together.
check-in
check-out
part-time
take-out
low-budget
fine-tune
look-out
all-too-common
high-end
up-town
low-class
Sub-class
tune-up
COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
Examples
1. Please request a four-foot table.
(adjective four-foot is describing the table, hyphen
is used to link four and foot to show that it is one)
2. It is a 6-page document.
3. Nena worked as a part-time keeper at the safari park.
4. That is an all-too-common mistake.
5. This low-budget film got a first-class review.
6. It was a well-written report.
COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
Middle Ages
Pepsi Cola
Christian Dior
Hyatt Hotel
National Day
Eiffel Tower
New York
Grand Mosque
New Year
Ramadan Kareem
National Geographic
Green Peace
Examples
1. Did you manage to get a Harry Potter tickets?
2. Student is encouraged to watch the National
Geographic episodes.
3. Let us all support Green Peace activities in the
world.
4. The company is giving away free Pepsi Cola bag.
5. Once a year we visit Jose Rizal shrine in Luneta
Park area.
ab initio
haute couture
de facto
de jure
ceteris paribus
Schindlers List
Mary Celeste
do it yourself
Phantom of the
Opera
Examples
1. It is an ab initio course. (i.e. for beginners)
2. The latest haute couture plays an important part in the
fashion world.
3. Steven Spielberg won his Oscar for Schindlers List
film.
4. My sister was my de facto mother all these years. (by
practice)
5. They ended de jure black segregation in 1955. (by law)
6. For more than ten years, Wilma claimed to be part of the
Mary Celeste crew before admitting to his cousin at a
party that she is not.
7. Amber looked at the stick in the water, looked me in the
eye and then turned away, giving me a get it
yourself look.
Fast
Far
Least
Quite
Well
Less
almost
Never
there
most
Often
extremely
gracefully
lovely
skillfully
friendly
kindly
Examples
1.
Part 3 Presentation
Outline
Topic
5. Forming Adjectives
5.1 Forming adjectives from Nouns
5.2 Forming adjectives from Verbs
5.3 Forming adjectives form adjectives
5.4 Forming adjectives from proper nouns
6. Degree of Adjectives
7. Comparison of Adjectives
8. Adjective Order
9. Coordinated Adjectives
FORMING ADJECTIVES
Adjectives can be formed from: NOUNS, VERB,
ADJECTIVES &
PROPER
Noun NOUNS
Adjective
Verb
Adjective
Accident
Accidental
Enjoy
Enjoyable
Danger
Dangerous
Help
Helpful
Star
Starry
Obey
Obedient
Wind
Windy
Talk
talkative
Adjective
Adjective
Comic
Comical
Correct
Corrective
Red
Reddish
Sick
Sickly
Proper
Noun
Proper
Adjectives
Canada
Canadians
Christianity Christian
France
French
Britain
British
DEGREE OF ADJECTIVES
1. Positive degree the simplest form
2. Comparative degree comparing
two things or person
3. Superlative degree comparing
three or more things or person
COMPARISON OF
ADJECTIVES
1. Add er and est to short adjectives of
one syllables (sometimes two syllables)
Positive
Superlative
Short
Comparativ
e
Shorter
Great
Greater
Greatest
Small
Smaller
Smallest
Shortest
COMPARISON OF
ADJECTIVES
2. If the short adjective ends with
consonant and y, change the y to i and
add er and est.
Positive
Superlative
Lucky
Comparativ
e
Luckier
Heavy
Heavier
Heaviest
Silly
Sillier
Silliest
Luckiest
COMPARISON OF
ADJECTIVES
3. If the short adjective ends with e add er
and st
Positive
Fine
Comparativ
e
Finer
Superlative
Finest
COMPARISON OF
ADJECTIVES
4. Put more (less) and most (least) in
front of longer adjectives (with two or more
syllables) to show comparison.
Positive
Appealing
Remarkable
Beautiful
Comparativ
e
Less
appealing
More
remarkable
More
beautiful
Superlative
Least
appealing
Most
remarkable
Most
beautiful
COMPARISON OF
ADJECTIVES
Some adjectives are irregular adjectives
and dont follow the rules. They change form
considerably from one degree to the next.
Positive
Bad
Good
Many
Little
well
Comparativ
e
Worse
Better
More
Less
Better
Superlative
Worst
Best
Most
Least
Best
ADJECTIVE ORDER
In many languages, attributive adjectives usually occur in a
specific order or the order of adjectives in a series
The categories are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Quantity or number
Quality or opinion observation
Size and Shape adjectives subject to objective measure
Age adjectives denoting age
Color adjectives denoting color
Origin adjective denoting source of noun (proper
adjective)
7. Material adjective denoting what something is made of
8. Qualifier or purpose final limiter often regarded as part of
the noun
Quality
Size
ten
huge
several
smart
excelle
nt
some
shiny
one
pretty
hand
made
expensi
ve
few
some
one
tiny
mediu
m
Shape
Age
Color
young
black
square
old
brown
round
antique
white
tall
young
Origin
Material
Purpose
Noun
Arabian
Chines
e
leather
racing
Horses
Indian
English
large
oval
red
Persian
big
round
white
African
Europe
an
Swedis
h
famous
grand
nice
small
classic
gold
brown
orange
referenc
e
arm
books
bracele
ts
fashion
model
wool
Carpets
diamon
d
woode
n
brick
Piano
cottage
house
Examples: