Adjective Cluster

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Adjective Cluster

What are adjective?

Adjective Order

Comparative Adjectives

Superlative Adjectives

Gradable and Non-gradable Adjectives

Possessive Adjectives

An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. (By

"noun" we include pronouns and noun phrases.)

An adjective "qualifies" or "modifies" a noun (a big dog).

Adjectives can be used before a noun (I like Chinese food)

or after certain verbs (It is hard).

We can often use two or more adjectives together (a

beautiful young French lady).

What are adjective?

There are 2 basic positions for adjectives:

1. before the noun

We sometimes use more than one adjective before the noun:

I like big black dogs.

She was wearing a beautiful long red dress.

2. after certain verbs

An adjective can come after some verbs, such as: be, become,

feel, get, look, seem, smell, sound.

Ram is English.

Because she had to wait, she became impatient.

Adjective Order

We use comparative adjectives when talking about 2 things

(not 3 or 10 or 1,000,000 things, only 2 things).

Often, the comparative adjective is followed by "than".

There are two ways to make or form a comparative adjective:

1. short adjectives: add "-er“

John is 1m80. He is tall. But Chris is 1m85. He is taller than

John.

2. long adjectives: use "more"

I want to have a more powerful computer.

Comparative Adjectives

We use a superlative adjective to describe one thing in a group of

three or more things. As with comparative adjectives, there are

two ways to form a superlative adjective:

1. short adjectives: add "-est“

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.

2. long adjectives: use "most"

Neptunus planet is the most distant from the Sun.

Another example:

quiet → the quietest/most quiet

clever → the cleverest/most clever

simple → the simplest/most simple

Superlative Adjectives

Adjectives describe qualities (characteristics) of nouns.

1. Some qualities can vary in intensity or grade (for example:

rather hot, hot, very hot, hotter, the hottest).

The adjective hot is gradable.

2. Other qualities cannot vary in intensity or grade because they

are:

extremes (for example: freezing)

absolutes (for example: dead)

classifying (for example: nuclear)

The adjectives freezing, dead and nuclear are non-gradable.

Gradable and Non-gradable Adjective

We use possessive adjectives to show who owns or

"possesses" something. The possessive adjectives are:

my, your, his, her, its, our, their

whose (interrogative)

Example:

Possessive Adjectives

Number Person GenderPossessive adjective

Example

singular 1st male/female my This is my book.

  2nd male/female your I like your hair.

  3rd male his His name is “John”.

    female her Her name is “Mary”.

    neuter its The dog is licking its paw.

plural 1st male/female our We have sold our house.

  2nd male/female your Your children are lovely.

  3rd male/female/neuter their The students thanked their teacher.

         

singular/plural 1st/2nd/3rd male/female (not neuter)

whose Whose phone did you use?

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