ADJETIVE

ADJETIVE

1. DEGREE OF COMPARISON

   • Positive degree
     • No features of comparison
   • Comparative degree
     • The feature of restricted superiority (which limits the comparison to two elements only)
       • Short word
         • + -er
           • clean - cleaner
         • y ending => -ier
           • dirty - dirtier
       • Long word
         • More or less
           • interesting - more/less interesting
       • Irregular
         • good - better bad - worse
   • Superlative degree
     • The feature of unrestricted superiority
       • Short word
         • + -est
           • clean - cleanest
         • y ending => -iest
           • dirty - dirtiest
       • Long word
         • The most or the least
           • interesting - the most/the least interesting
       • Irregular
         • good - the best bad - the worst

2. CHARACTERISTICS

   • Syntactical
     • An attributive
       • A group of words which describes a noun
         • long way, yellow balloon
     • A predicative
       • A group of words with a verb which describes a noun
         • ...who is wearing a baseball cap... ...which is drinking milk...
   • Semantic
     • Describe nouns *do not possess a full nominative value
       • -if the adjective is placed in a nominatively self-dependent position, this leads to its substantivisation
         • E.g.: Outside it was a beautiful day, and the sun tinged the snow with red. Cf.: The sun tinged the snow with the red colour.
   • Morphological
     • The category of comparison

3. POSITION OF ADJETIVES

   • Attributive position
     • The new secretary doesn't like me. The luxurious car costs a lot.
   • Predicative Position
     • My best friend is tall. Diana looks angry. I feel unhappy.
     • BE/SEEM/LOOK / BECOME / FEEL

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5. WHAT ARE ADJETIVES?

   • Adjetives are words that describe nouns
     • The blue car The old house
   • A Word that gives information about how, when, where, why and to what extent an action occurs.

6. ORDER OF ADJETIVES

7. ADVERBS MODIFY

   • Adjectives
     • She had a surprisingly high score!
   • Verb
     • He behaved abnormally!
   • Adverbs
     • He comes relatively often.
   • Clauses
     • Surprisingly, she cooked a delicious meal.

8. TYPES OF ADVERBS

   • Manner
     • How the action is carried out?
   • Frequency
     • How often does the action occur?
   • Degree
     • How much or to what degree the action is carried out?
   • Duration
     • How long does the action go on?

9. How to compare?

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