Adjectives

Adjectives

1. It is a word that modifies

   • Nouns
     • Pronouns
   • Adjectives answer the questions
     • Which one
       • What kind
         • How much
           • Whose
             • Rafa's car is expensive
           • Is there enough bread?
         • He likes beautiful girls
       • I bought that car.
     • They can be
       • Proper
         • Compound
           • Common
             • She is beautiful
           • black-and blue mark
             • They are hyphenated (-)
         • German food
       • They have characteristics
         • Morphological
           • Derivations
             • Affixes
               • a-, -y, -ful, -less, -able, -ic(al)
           • Invarable words
             • Gender
               • Case
                 • Number
           • Inflections
             • -er & -est
         • Notional
           • They qualify
             • Things
             • People
             • States
             • They can be modified
               • Gradable
                 • Stative
                   • Inherent
                     • Nongradable
                       • Dynamic
               • Noninherent
         • Functional
           • Atributide
             • Predicative

2. They have

   • Syntactic Functions
     • Atributive
       • Predicative
         • Postposive
           • something funny
           • Different Combinations
             • Noun + Adjactive
               • Noun+ Pres.Partic.
                 • Noun+ Past Partic.
                   • Adjective+ Noun
                     • Adjeec+ Past Partic
                       • Number + Noun
                         • Adv. + Past Partic.
                           • Adjec. + Present Partic
         • He seems careless
       • A small garden
     • Semantic classification
       • Gradable/Nongradable
         • Stative/Dynamic
           • Inherent/Noninhirent

3. Order

   • N
     • O
       • S
         • A
           • S
             • C
               • O
                 • M
                   • P
                     • Purpose
                   • Material
                 • Origen
               • Color
             • Shape
           • Age
         • Size
       • Opinion
     • Number