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