Transcript ADJECTIVES BETÜL BAK

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Adjectives describe people, places, things, ideas,
etc. They have only one form in all genders,
singular and plural, and can be placed before
nouns or after verbs such as appear, keep, make,
feel, sound, smell, look, taste, etc.
She is a pretty girl.
It smells horrible.
• Most common adjectives (large, long,
heavy, late, etc) do not have a particular
ending. However, there are certain
common endings for adjectives which are
formed from nouns and verbs. These are:
-able fashionable
-al
classical
-ant petulant
-ar
angular
-ary imaginary
-ate fortunate
-en
wooden
-ent
dependent
-ean Shakespearean
-ous
-esque
-ful
-ian
-ible
-ic
-ical
-ious
-ish
courageous
picturesque
careful
Canadian
possible
historic
historical
hilarious
reddish
Imimpossible
Inintolerant
Irirregular
mal- malnourished
non- non-stop
over- overgrown
postpost-modern
prepremature
ununtrue
1-Write the adjectives made from the following
words.
day daily
use useful
humour humorious
fool
foolish
Notes on Adjectives
• Compound adjectives are formed with:
Present participle
long-standing debt
Past participle
self-employed carpenter
Cardinal numbers + nouns
one-year-old girl
Prefixes and suffixes
non-stop show
Well, badly, ill, poorly + participles well-paid clerk
• Some adjectives ending -ly look like adverbs (friendly, motherly,
lonely , lovely). These adjectives form their adverbs by adding
the word way/manner/fashion.
• Some adjectives such as poor, late and old have different
meanings, according to where they are placed in the sentence.
My grandfather is very old.(in years)
Tony is an old friend of mine.(I’ve known him for a long time)
• Certain adjectives can be used with the to represent
a group of as a whole:the rich, the dead, the young,
the unemployed, the homeless, the blind etc.
• Present and past participles can be used as
adjectives .
• Present participles describe the quality of a noun.
Annoying behaviour (what kind of behaviour?
Annoying)
Past participle describe how the subject feels.
Annoyed teacher (How does the teacher feel?
Annoyed)
• Nouns describing materials, substances,
purpose and use can be can be used as
adjectives, but they do not have comparative
or superlative forms and cannot be modified
by very.
a cotton shirt
a gold necklace
a silver brooch
a summer dress
a stone wall
a chopping board
• However, there are adjectives derived from
the above nouns, These adjectives have a
metaphorical meaning. Silky hair(hair like silk),
golden hair, silvery moon, stony look etc.
• Like, old and young are often used in fixed
adjective-noun combinations, so they are
always placed next to the noun they modify.
This young man spends too much money.
That little girl seems to be lost.
• ORDER OF ADJECTİVES
A general guide to the ordering of adjectives is
given below.
number opinio
n
Size/
weight
age shape colour
verb
origin
material
three
small
old
carved Japan
wooden
nice
round brown
Notes
• When two or more adjectives of the same
category are used, the more general adjective
comes before the more specific one.
a kind, gentle man
• Commas are only used to separate adjectives
which are equally important; they are never
used to separate the final adjective from the
noun it modifies.
a long, distinguished career
• Put the adjectives into the correct order.
• The screenplay was written by a(n)
eccentric, brilliant, French writer.
• The flower girl wore a pretty, white, satin
dress at the wedding ceremony.
• The fruit tart is made with delicious , red,
fresh strawberries.
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