To enlarge, quantify or modify the meaning of a noun.
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They serve to qualify the noun, add more information and description about it.
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Examples
The cat is too fat.
That is not a good idea.
I live in a big house.
Where is my green book?
It is cold today.
They indicate the proximity of the person with whom or about who we are talking. They determine the location of the noun with respect to the elements in the sentence.
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Examples
This car is powerful.
Those apples look delicious.
That cat is going to jump!
These pencils are mine.
These drawings are perfect.
I like those jeans.
They express quantity imprecisely. They also qualify the noun imprecisely.
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Examples
I do not have enough money.
I want some biscuits, please.
There is not much time.
How many bottles are there?
I need a little change.
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Examples
What are you doing?
Where is your bag?
Who are you looking for?
When are they coming?
How much is it?
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Examples
This is my car.
The dog is eating its bone.
They are our new friends.
She lost her bag.
Tom closed his shop.
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Examples
It is on the second floor.
I need one pencil.
There are five flowers.
Do you have ten minutes?
This is her first job.
- Good
- Fat
- Pretty
- Fast
- Cold
To identify the genre of the adjective, generally we have to take into account the attached noun.
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Examples
She is a pretty girl.
This is a fast car.
This coffee is cold.
This dog is fat.
My book is good.
Excluding the quantitative and demonstrative adjectives, which have different form in singular and plural.
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Examples
This flower.
These flowers.
Much milk.
Many biscuits.
Before The Noun
Generally, the adjectives are written before the noun.
The Tall Boy.
The (article) tall (adjective) boy (noun).
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Examples
The tall boy.
My little dog.
The red bike.
I bought a pink dress.
She made a delicious cake.
When the adjective depends on the verb, it is written after it. Some examples...
- She looks beautiful.
- Andrew is intelligent.
- He feels bad.
- It smells good.
- They are blue.
We can use many adjectives together, there is an established order that has to be respected when we use several adjectives in the same sentence.
ORDER |
TYPE |
EXAMPLE |
1° |
Opinion |
Expensive |
2° |
Size |
Big |
3° |
Shape |
Round |
4° |
State |
Dirty |
5° |
Age |
Old |
6° |
Color |
Brown |
7° |
Origin |
Irish |
8° |
Material |
Wooden |
9° |
Noun |
Table |
It is not necessary to use all the adjectives at the same time, generally we use no more than 3 of them in the same sentence to describe a noun. Some examples...
- A small pink bike.
- An awful new cotton hat.
- This is an enormous broken old American car.
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Generally, to describe a noun, we don't use more than 2 or 3 adjectives.
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There is not an established order to be respected when we use many adjectives in a sentence.
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When the adjective depends on the verb, it is written…
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...after it.
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...at the beginning of the sentence.
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Which of the following is an Interrogative Adjective?
That
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Any
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How
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"FIRST" and "TEN" are examples of Quantitative Adjectives.
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"THAT" and "THOSE" are considered Quantitative Adjectives.
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The Numeral Adjectives are used to talk about amounts.
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The Adjectives have no gender.
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The Demonstrative adjectives have different form in Singular and Plural.
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Generally, the adjectives are written after the noun.
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There is an order to be followed when we use more than one adjective in a sentence.
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To identify the gender of the adjective, we generally take into account the noun next to it.
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Which of the following sentences is written correctly?
A car yellow small.
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A small yellow car.
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A yellow small car.
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_ _ _ _ _ flowers are pink.
This
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Much
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These
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The Interrogative Adjectives are used…
… in affirmative sentences.
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… in negative sentences.
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… in interrogative sentences.
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