Adjectives presentation, definition and its types

this presentation discusses the different types of adjectives. Each type is accompanied with examples to illustrate the differences.

1. Adjectives

2. What is an adjective? An Adjective is a word that describes a noun, noun phrase or pronoun and provides more information . Adjectives can come either before or after a noun. An adjective that comes before a noun is an ‘Attributive adjective’ . An adjective that comes after a noun is a ‘Predicative adjective’.

3. Descriptive Adjectives Numeral Adjectives Quantitative Adjectives Demonstrative Adjectives Interrogative Adjectives Possessive Adjectives Proper Adjectives Types of Adjectives 1 2 4 3 5 6 7 Exclamatory Adjectives 8

4. These adjectives describe the quality or nature of the noun or pronoun by giving an idea about the characteristics of the noun or pronoun, such as appearance, positive or negative personality, colour, shape, size, time, sound, touch, taste, condition etc. Descriptive Adjectives Ex: I have a pink book.

5. Numeral Adjectives show how many persons or things are meant. They represent numeral value. They are further divided into two kinds i.e. Definite Numeral adjectives and Indefinite Numeral adjectives and distributive numeral adjectives Numeral Adjectives Ej: Few students came to class.

6. Adjectives of quantity show how much quantity of a thing is meant. Quantitative Adjectives Ej: I have three books in my bag.

7. Demonstrative Adjectives Demonstrative adjectives are mainly used to describe the position of a subject (a noun or pronoun) in space or time. This, that, these and those are the demonstrative adjectives in English. Ex: This is my favorite song.

8. An adjective that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun by asking a question is called an interrogative adjective. There are only a few adjectives that can be termed as interrogative adjectives. They are whose, what and which. Interrogative Adjectives Ex: Whose book is this?

9. These adjectives are used to show or represent possession of a quality. For example: my, your, his, her, their, its, whose, etc. Possessive Adjectives Ex: This is my classroom.

10. A proper adjective is the type of adjective that relates to the proper noun. When a proper noun describes a noun or a pronoun then the adjective called a proper adjective. Proper Adjectives Ex: Japanese cars are very fast.

11. The word what is sometimes used as an Exclamatory Adjective. Exclamatory Adjectives Ex: What a beautiful day!

12. COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES

13. COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES Let’s look at: When we use comparative and superlative adjectives. How we make comparative adjectives. How we make superlative adjectives.

14. That blue bag is bigger than the backpack, but the backpack is more comfortable to carry. The yellow bag is smaller. Backpacks are better for school. FUNCTION - WHEN DO WE USE COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES?

15. That blue bag is bigger than the backpack, but the backpack is more comfortable to carry. The yellow bag is smaller. Backpacks are better for school. FUNCTION - WHEN DO WE USE COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES? Is he describing the bags? Or is he comparing them? How many examples of comparing can you find in the conversation?

16. The boy is comparing bags. There are four examples of comparative adjectives: bigger, smaller more comfortable, better. FUNCTION - WHEN DO WE USE COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES? Comparative adjectives: to compare two people, things or places. NOTE:

17. FUNCTION - WHEN DO WE USE SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES? The blue bag is the biggest of all, and the red one is the smallest. Among the options, the backpack is the best choice for carrying many things.

18. The blue bag is the biggest of all, and the red one is the smallest. Among the options, the backpack is the best choice for carrying many things. When the boy says: “The blue bag is the biggest of all” is he comparing it to another one? How many examples of superlative adjectives can you find? FUNCTION - WHEN DO WE USE SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES?

19. The boy isn’t comparing the bags to one another. He is comparing within the group of bags. He uses three superlative adjectives: biggest, smallest, best. FUNCTION - WHEN DO WE USE SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES? Superlative adjectives: to compare one person, thing, etc. to a group. NOTE:

20. TYPES OF ADJECTIVES FORM - HOW DO WE MAKE COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES? COMPARATIVE short (one syllable) + -er smaller one syllable adjectives ending in a vowel and then a consonant double consonant + -er bigger two syllable adjectives ending in - y delete -y +-ier heavier long adjectives (more than two syllables) more + adjective more comfortable SUPERLATIVE the + -est the smallest the + double consonant + -est the biggest the + delete y + -iest the heaviest the most + adjective the most comfortable irregular adjectives good, bad no rule better worse no rule the best the worst

21. LET’S PRACTICE My pencil is _____ (long) than yours. Her backpack is _____ (heavy) than mine. The red crayon is _____ (bright) than the blue one. This lunchbox is _____ (small) than that one. Your eraser is _____ (big) than mine. COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES The yellow marker is _____ (thin) in the box. This is the _____ (soft) pillow in the room. His lunchbox is _____ (colorful) of all. The green scissors are _____ (sharp) in the class. The blue backpack is _____ (heavy) of all.

22. LET’S PRACTICE KEY My pencil is longer than yours. Her backpack is heavier than mine. The red crayon is brighter than the blue one. This lunchbox is smaller than that one. Your eraser is bigger than mine. COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES The yellow marker is thinnest in the box. This is the softest pillow in the room. His lunchbox is the most colorful of all. The green scissors are the sharpest in the class. The blue backpack is the heaviest of all.

23. ORDER OF ADJECTIVES white few ghoulish several round wicked six

24. Highlight the adjectives in the sentences. Seven ghastly goblins haunted the young children. We saw many pumpkins glowing orange that scary night. My blonde wig didn’t match my costume, so I had to buy one black wig for fourteen dollars.

25. Which sentence sounds better? The old green wicked witch cackled out loud. The green wicked old witch cackled out loud.

26. Adjectives have an ORDER!

27. Ordering Adjectives opinion size age shape color origin material purpose

28. Ordering Adjectives An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you). For example: silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult OPINION

29. Ordering Adjectives A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. For example: large, tiny, enormous, little SIZE

30. Ordering Adjectives An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. For example: ancient, new, young, old AGE

31. Ordering Adjectives A shape adjective describes the shape of something. For example: square, round, flat, rectangular SHAPE

32. Ordering Adjectives A color adjective, of course, describes the color of something. For example: blue, pink, reddish, gray COLOR

33. Ordering Adjectives An origin adjective describes where something comes from. For example: French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek ORIGIN

34. Ordering Adjectives A material adjective describes what something is made from. For example: wooden, metal, cotton, paper MATERIAL

35. Ordering Adjectives A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with “- ing ”. For example: sleeping (as in “sleeping bag”), catching (as in “catching mitt”) PURPOSE

36. Some Examples of Adjective Order OPINION SIZE AGE SHAPE COLOR ORIGIN MATERIAL PURPOSE NOUN silly young English man huge round metal bowl small red sleeping bag old green wicked witch

37. Thank you!