Adjectives

This a small village. It looks peaceful. There are some lovely old houses.

Adjectives describe nouns (a big car). They have the same form in sigular and plural.

e.g. : a small house_small houses

  • There are two places where we can use an adjective:

    These positions are called 'attributive' and 'predicative'.

    • Attributive: It is a large stadium. (before a noun)

    • Predicative: The stadium is large. (as complement)

BEFORE A NOUN ----------------------AFTER A LINKING VERB

Claire's got a new car.----------------Claire's car is new.

It was a dark night.--------------------It was getting dark.

This is good coffee.--------------------This coffee tastes good.

-----------------------------------------Some linking verbs are: appear, be, become, feel,get, look, seem, smell, stay, taste

Kinds of adjectives : The main kinds are:

(a) Demonstrative: this, that, these, those.

(b) Distributive: each, every; either, neither

(c) Quantitative: some, any, no; little/few; many, much; one, twenty

(d) Interrogative: which, what, whose

(e) Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their

(f) Of quality: clever, dry, fat, golden, good, heavy, square