ADJECTIVES

ADJECTIVES

1. Words that modify a noun or a pronoun

   • Sofia is beautiful
   • They can appear in the subjective, predicative and postpositive case
     • The beautiful girl in the garden is my girlfriend
     • Mariela is a good person
     • They found the young boy guilty

2. Never pluralize adjectives

   • x The girls in the classroom are beautifuls
     • However, you can say
       • The girls in the classroom are beautiful

3. They can be

   • Gradable
     • They can be compared
       • Iris is the most beautiful girl in the Grammar class
   • Nongradable
     • They cannot be compared
       • Juana is more pregnant than Micaela
         • The correct sentence is: Juana is pregnat
       • Tancho is very dead
         • Tancho is dead is the correct statement

4. They can be compound

   • Two or more words to create one adjective
     • Hyphenated
       • A two-kilometer lake
         • Never say: A two-kilometers lake
       • Cold-storage vaults
         • modifying the noun
       • Blue-green algae
         • When preciding the noun
       • A odd-sounding name
         • Before the noun or after it
       • able-blodied
         • In any position in the sentence
       • The desition-making process
         • Noun plus gerund preceding the noun
       • The trickle-down theory
         • Noun plus adverb of place preceding the noun
       • After-tax income
         • preposition plus noun
       • a would-be writer
         • with a finite verb
       • The cost-of-living index
         • More than two words, at least one of which is and adverb or preposition, used as attributive adjectives
       • a calcium nitrate deposit
         • Do not hyphenate chemical terms used as adjectives
       • Hyphenate compound proper adjectives that form a true compound, but do not hyphenate those in which a proper adjective is cobined with a simple modifier
         • Middle Eastern affairs

5. NOSASCOMP

   • Number
   • Opinion
   • Size
   • Age
   • Shape
   • Color
   • Origin
   • Material
   • Purpose

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