ADJECTIVES

Read the sentences in the pictures below. Guess what are they?

    

John is angry because somebody   spilled the ink on his new novel.

A tall man is looking at the short boy.

The words bolded are round, tall, short and angry.

 

These words are Adjectives that is, words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.

Types	Meanings	Examples
Descriptive Adjective	Including description on size, shape, colour and conditions of nouns	I bought a new black bicycle yesterday.
Possessive Adjectives	Are used with nouns to show possession.	I am lending my book to Ji Hyo
Adjectives of Quantity	Describe more on the amount or the number of things; answering the questions How much? How many?	There are two apples on the table.
Distributive Adjectives	Also use to show amount	Every woman is given a rose.
Demonstrative Adjectives	Used to point out the nouns that are being referred to	That man gave me a lift home.
Interrogative Adjectives	Used before nouns to begin questions.	Whose umbrella is it outside?

Sometimes, we could also combine numbers of adjectives to describe a noun like the sentence below:
         * She bought a captivating new Morocco dining table 
            last month.

The sequences of the categories of the adjectives can be referred to the table:

Let’s try some exercises!                                                    

Fill in the blanks with a suitable adjective.

1. She baked a ……. cake for the party.

2. The …..cat walked silently towards the unwary bird.

3. I cannot lift the …… box by myself.

4. Who is …. man standing near our gate?

5. The …. child fell asleep in her mother’s arms.

6. The …. driver knocked his car against the lamp-post.

7. Her husband gave her an …… diamond earrings during their 

     anniversary.

8. We need a ….. rope to haul that crate up.

9. At the party there were …. people whom I had not met before.

10.The old shed was …. and had cobwebs in every corner.

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