Adjective
The /∧/ sound- To make the /∧/ sound, the middle of the tongue is raised. Like all vowel sounds, the air passes through the mouth only and the sound is voiced. Try it, say these words.
u 0 ou 00
sun son young flood
hundred company country bloody
jumping nothing cousin
Adjective
Adjective is a describing word: this means that when writing a description, we often use adjectives to help us.
Exercise
Pick out the adjectives in the story below.
The wanted woman is slim, and in her thirties. She is about 194cm tall. She is smart, and well dressed. She often wears a dark blue skirt and a light grey jacket. She has been seen in a dark blue Japanese saloon car.
An adjective describes the person, or object. Adjectives can give information about
Quality: a beautiful day;a good man
Size: a big car, a short woman
Age: a young woman
Temperature: a warm evening; a cold bath
Shape: a square table;a round box
Color: a red shirt, a white horse
Origin: a french car; a Japanese watch
Adjectives can be form from verb
enjoy- enjoyable
agree- agreeable
Kinds of adjectives
Descriptive adjective or adjective of quality
Descriptive adjectives are the most numerous of the different types of adjectives. These adjectives describe nouns that refer to action, state, or quality (careless, dangerous, excited, sad, black, white, big, small, long, fat, English, Mediterranean, three-cornered).
- a cold morning
- a true story
- English language
- Mediterranean country.
An adjective of quantity tells us the number (how many) or amount (how much) of a noun.
- I don’t have much money.
- There is so much wine for the guests.
Demonstrative adjective
A demonstrative adjective (this, that, these, those) shows the noun it modifies is singular or plural and whether the position of the noun is near or far from the person who is speaking or writing. A demonstrative adjective also points out a fact about the noun.
- This red balloon is mine and those three yellow ;ones are yours.
- This cute baby is his brother. That cute baby is his sister.
- These two fat cats have tails, but that thin cat doesn’t have a tail.
A possessive adjective expresses possession of a noun by someone or something. Possessive adjectives are the same as possessive pronouns. All the possessive adjectives are listed in the following table:
| Possessive adjectives/pronouns | |
| Singular | Plural |
| my | our |
| your | your |
| his | their |
| her | their |
| its | their |
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