Adjectives

Adjectives

1. Adjectives can describes nouns

   • clean- dirty-intelligent- good
     • The CLEAN house * The INTELLIGENT boy

2. Comparative

   • compare two things
     • Short words
       • Ending +ER
         • clean- cleaner* dirty- dirtier
     • Long words
       • more
         • more intelligent * more beautiful-

3. Demonstrative

   • this-these-that-those
     • This car-these cars
     • That book- Those books

4. Descriptive adjectives can be divided into specific adjectives

   • Proper Adjectives are form from nouns
     • Chinese- American
   • common
     • old- young

5. N-O-S-A-S-C-O-M-P

   • NUMBER
     • I wrote TWO letters
   • OPINION
     • The PRETTY girl
   • SIZE
     • The TALL guy
   • AGE
     • The OLD man
   • SHAPE
     • The LITTLE dog
   • COLOR
     • The BLACK car
   • ORIGIN
     • The MEXICAN girl
   • MATERIAL
     • The METAL chair
   • PURPOSE
     • The SLEEPING bag

6. SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES

   • COMPARE THREE THINGS OR MORE
     • Short word ending +EST/ Y ending
       • clean- cleanEST
       • dirty- dirtIEST
     • long words THE MOST
       • THE MOST intelligent guy in the class
       • THE MOST beauttiful girl in the class.