LET'S LEARN ENGLISH (PART 5)

LET'S LEARN ENGLISH

-in collaboration with Pekula International Language-

          

LESSON 5: ADJECTIVES
Adjectives are words which tell you more about nouns or pronouns.
Examples:

A cold drink

A pretty girl

A happy boy

‘cold’ is an adjective. It describes the noun ‘drink’
‘pretty’ is an adjective. It describes the noun ‘girl’
‘happy’ is an adjective. It describes the noun ‘boy’

There are three main types of adjectives
1. Descriptive adjective
e.g. good, beautiful, young, blue, straight, deep, loud, pain

   The music is too loud.








2. Adjectives of quantity

e.g. a few, a hundred, both, second, all, many, some, much

A few apples are red.

3. Adjectives of distinction
e.g. this, that, those, which, what, whose, each, every, either

What colour do you like?

Comparison of Adjectives
Adjectives have three degrees of comparison
The Positive is used to describe an object or a person.
Aida's hair is long.
The Comparative is used to describe two objects/people
Arina's hair is longer.
The Superlative is used to describe more than two objects/people
Amira's hair is the longesr

Note: The comparative may be formed by adding “-er’ to the Positive and the Superlative may be formed by adding ‘-est’ to the Positive.

Note: Some adjectives are used with more and most.
Examples:
beautiful             more beautiful           most beautiful
comfortable        more comfortable      most comfortable

Irregular adjectives change in form
Examples:
good       better       best
bad        worse       worst
little        less          least

We can make our descriptions more interesting by using adjectives.
Compare the two descriptions:
1. We walked up the hill on the beach. We saw flowers. There were boys picking shells.

2. We walked up a steep hill on the white, sandy beach. We saw beautiful flowers. There were three boys picking green-coloured shells.