Adjetives

Adjectives

• Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The Articles — a, an, and the — are adjectives.

• the tall professor

• the lugubrious lieutenant

• a solid commitment

• a month's pay

• a six-year-old child

• the unhappiest, richest man

Clases de adjetivos:

Existen ocho clases de adjetivos:

1. Calificativos: good, bueno; thin, delgado; dry, seco; bad, malo; short, corto

2. Demostrativos: this, este; that, aquel; these, estos; those, aquellos

3. Distributivos: each, cada; every, todo; either, uno y otro; neither, ni uno ni otro.

4. De cantidad: some, algún; any, cualquier; little, poco; few, pocos; many,

muchos; much, mucho; enough, bastante

5. Interrogativos: which?, cual?; what?, ¿qué?; whose?, ¿de quién?, etc.

6. Posesivos: my, mi; your, tu, su, vuestro, his, su (de él); her, su (de ella); its, su

(de ello), our, nuestro; your, vuestro, their,

suyo (de ellos/as)

7. Propios: French, francés; English, inglés; Spanish, español; etc.

8. Numerales: one, uno; ten, diez; first, primer, second, segundo; etc.

Generalidades:

• Los adjetivos en inglés son invariables en género y número.

yellow = amarillo, amarilla, amarillos, amarillas

• Normalmente se ponen delante del sustantivo:

I have a big book / Tengo un libro grande

• Verbo To be + (am/is/are/was, etc.) + adjetivo

These pictures are beautiful / Esas imágenes son bonitas

• To be + adjetivo tiene en ocasiones la equivalencia a «Tener»

I'm hungry / Tengo hambre, I'm thirsty / Tengo sed

I'm cold / Tengo frio, I'm hot / Tengo calor

Let´s practice!

1.Hair can be long or ___ 2.People can be short or ___ 3.Problems can be big or ___ 4.Food can be expensive or ___ 5.Legs can be fat or ___ 6.A car can be new or ___ 7.A train can be fast or ___ 8.A face can be beautiful or ___ 9.Elevators go up or ___ 10.Roads can be narrow or ___

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Find 9 Adjectives Describing Yourself

Write your name and draw a picture of yourself in the center oval. Write nine

adjectives describing yourself. Then use each adjective in a sentence.

A THING

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Find 9 Adjectives Describing a THING

Write A THING and draw a picture of IT in the center oval. Write nine

adjectives describing IT. Then use each adjective in a sentence.

Find an Adjective for Each

Letter

See if you can think of and

write down words that

describe a person, place or

thing (a noun) for each letter

of the alphabet.

A N

B O

C P

D Q

E R

F S

G T

H V

I U

J V

K W

L Y

M Z

Circle Adjective, Underline Noun it Describes

Circle the adjective and underline the noun it describes

in the sentences in this printable worksheet.

1. The big cat sat down.

2. The librarian read a long book.

3. The new movie starts tomorrow.

4. Roberts buys red buttons.

5. Mary writes a long essay.

6. The big dog eats fast.

7. She had a difficult test today.

8. The boys ate a large pizza.

9. He waits in a long line.

10. She arrives for the late show.

11. I see a purple car.

12. Today is very cold.

13. She held her hat in the strong wind.

Read and match

Instructions: Listen to the word by clicking the AUDIO link. Then, find the word that is the

opposite of the word you hear.

1. slow | ugly | good

2. clean | interesting | kind 3. unhappy | short | quick 4. soft | bad | small 5. low | smooth | hot 6. sad | funny | cheerful 7. hard | old | rich 8. tall | wide | busy 9. far | poor | thin 10. near | cheap | light

FORMA

FORMA

1.) Los adjetivos en ingles solo tienen una

forma, usada con el singular y el plural:

An old man old men

An old woman old women

An old car old cars

Excepto los adjetivos demostrativos:

This-That (Esto- aquello)

These-Those (Esos-aquellos)

FORMA

• 2.) Cuando un sustantivo es usado como un

adjetivo, no tiene una forma plural.

Compare:

Two hours a two-hour film

Three weeks a three-week holiday

POSICION Y ORDEN

1) POSICION:

a. Un adjetivo puede ser ubicado en dos lugares en la oración

i. Antes de un sustantivo:

A Young man.

An empty house.

New shoes.

A nice girl.

ii. Después de los verbos be, look, appear, seem, feel, taste, smell, sound,

(entre otros) cuando se describe el sujeto de una oración:

He is young

The house looks empty

The soup smells good

These shoes are new

She seems confident

b. Algunos adjetivos (asleep, alone, alive, awake, afraid, ill,

well) pueden ser ubicados después del verbo pero no antes

de un sustantivo:

He is asleep. (NO An asleep man) or A sleeping person

He is alive or A living person

They are ill or Sick children.

They are well or Healthy people

It is afraid or A frightened animal.

c. En expresiones de medida, el adjetivo

normalmente viene después del sustantivo

que denota medida:

He’s eighteen years old.

I’m 1.80 meters tall.

2.) ORDEN:

• Cuando se usan dos o más adjetivos juntos,

los adjetivos de “opinión” (eg. interesting,

beautiful) normalmente van antes de los

adjetivos que denotan “hechos” (eg. new,

blue):

An interesting new film

A beautiful blue dress

I) En las frases siguientes verifique si el adjetivo esta

colocado correctamente, sino corríjalo:

• This is a pen red

• She is a girl beautiful

• He is a good friend

• She is a teacher good

• That is a book bad

• They are good friends

• These are my shoes old

• Those flowers yellow are very beautiful

• This is a beautiful house

• Kevin Costner is an actor American

3.) Cuando dos o más adjetivos que denotan “hechos” vienen antes de un sustantivo,

normalmente van en el siguiente orden:

TAMANO + EDAD + FORMA + COLOR + ORIGEN + MATERIAL + PROPOSITO + SUSTANTIVO

A small rubber ball (TAMANO + MATERIAL)

A young Spanish woman. (EDAD + ORIGEN)

White leader running shoes (COLOR + MATERIAL + PROPOSITO)

TAMANO EDAD FORMA COLOR ORIGEN MATERIAL PROPOSITO

SUSTANTIVO

QUANTITY OPINION SIZE AGE SHAPE COLOR ORIGIN MATERIAL PURPOSE NOUN

five big young black Canadian bears

battered old shapeless gray cotton work pants

many magnificent antique British reference books

A studious teenaged American boy

few shiny round blue Indian gems

many well-made small elongated brown wooden fishing boats

several cheap large purple polyester sleeping bags

Write Adjectives by

Category

Write 5 adjectives for

each category.

The categories

include: quantity,

opinion, size/weight,

age, shape, color,

origin, material,

purpose.

ADJECTIVE CATEGORIES

1 QUANTITY

2. OPINION

3. SIZE, WEIGHT

4. AGE

5.SHAPE 6. COLOR

7. ORIGIN

8. MATERIAL

9. PURPOSE

EJERCICIOS:

• Como podemos llamar a estas personas y cosas. Ver 2.)

a. A child who is four years old. A four-year-old child.

b. b. A journey which takes six hours. A six-hour journey.

c. A concert which lasts for two hours.

__________________________________________________________

d. A man who is fifty years old.

__________________________________________________________

e. A delay which lasts for twenty minutes.

____________________________________ ______________________

f. A letter which has ten pages.

___________________________________________________________

g. A meeting which lasts for two hours.

____________________________________________________________

• Cuáles de estas palabras son adjetivos:

a. You look tired. Yes, I don’t feel very well.

b. It’s a very long book.

c. Were you late for work today?

d. You seemed sad. Is something wrong?

e. The boss sounded angry when I spoke to him on

the phone.

f. He’s a shy person. He feels embarrassed when

he meets people.

• Coloque las palabras en el orden correcto:

a. Is/a/generous/Kate/woman. Kate is a very generous woman.

b. Look/very/Simon/angry/did/? Did Simon look very angry?

c. Children/the/are/asleep.__________________________________________

d. Very/city/is/Sydney/modern.______________________________________

e. Bridge/long/is/55km/the._________________________________________

f. Development/community/interesting/subject/is/an._____________________

Coloque los adjetivos debajo del

encabezado correcto

Short, plastic, Italian, beautiful, sports, ugly, square, leather, red, German, small, Young,

White, writing, curly, large, middle-aged

OPINION - TAMANO - EDAD - FORMA - COLOR - ORIGEN - MATERIAL - PROPOSITO

Horrible - - - short - - -old - - - round - - grey - - English - - - -glass - - - - shopping

Reordene las siguientes oraciones

a. A (fat/short) man. A short fat man.

b. A (middle-aged, tall) woman._____________________________

c. Two (white/small/paper) cups. ____________________________

d. A (young/handsome) doctor._______________________________

e. A pair of (leather/expensive/black) shoes._____________________

Exercise

Order the sentences according to The

Rules

Answers