Adjectives are one of the traditional eight English parts of speech, though linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that were formerly considered to be adjectives. In this paragraph, "traditional" is an adjective, and in the preceding paragraph, "main" and "more" are.
Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. They give you more information about
people, places, and things.
Kinds of Adjectives
Some adjectives tell about the size of people or things.
Some adjectives
tell about the color
of things.
Some adjectives
tell what people or things are like by describing their
quality.
Some adjectives
tell what
things are made of. They refer to
substances.
Some adjectives
are made from proper nouns of place. These adjectives are
called adjectives of origin.
Sometimes several adjectives are used to describe a single noun or pronoun.
When you use two or more adjectives, the usual order is: size, quality, color,
origin, substance. For example:
a small green plastic box
size color substance
a stylish red Italian car
quality color origin
Here are more examples.
Adjectives of quality sometimes come before adjectives of size.
For example:
beautiful long hair elegant short hair
But adjectives of size always come before adjectives of color. For example:
beautiful long black hair elegant short red hair
If you use any adjective of substance, it comes after the color adjective.
For example:
When you use two or more adjectives, the usual order is: size, quality, color,
origin, substance. For example:
a small green plastic box
size color substance
a stylish red Italian car
quality color origin
Here are more examples.
Adjectives of quality sometimes come before adjectives of size.
For example:
beautiful long hair elegant short hair
But adjectives of size always come before adjectives of color. For example:
beautiful long black hair elegant short red hair
If you use any adjective of substance, it comes after the color adjective.
For example:
a beautiful long black silk dress
taken from, BASIC
ENGLISH GRAMMAR for english language
grammar learners. Howard Sargeant.
*Note: if you
want the example of exercises, just request and write your comment about the
article. So, this article can be longer exist to help others.
Reference: wikipedia
No comments:
Post a Comment