ADJECTIVES

ADJECTIVES

1. TYPES

   • GRADED
     • UNGRADED
       • COLOR
         • EMPHASIZING
           • SPECIFYING
             • additional; certain; chief; entire; existing; first; following; further; last; main; next; only; opposite; other; particular; past; present; previous; principal; remaining; same; specific; usual; whole
             • Special ending: -ed/-ing; -ic/-ical; -ly
               • Compound: part-time job; light-hearted talk
           • absolute; awful; complete; dead; entire; mere; outright; perfect; positive; pure; real; sheer; simple; supreme; terrible; total; true; utter
         • plural: greens; determiner: a deep blue (for the most common colors)
       • particular type: financial aid
     • Comparative: taller
     • Superlative: tallest
     • quality of someone/sth: sad, pretty

2. AFTER LINK VERB

   • be, become, get, seem, feel
   • only after: afraid, alike, alive, alone, ashamed, asleep, awake, glad, ill, ready, sorry, sure, well
   • coordination: and
   • followed by preposition so the meaning is complete
     • accustomed to; adapted to; allergic to; attributable to; attuned to; averse to; conducive to; devoted to; impervious to; injurious to; integral to; prone to; proportional to; proportionate to; reconciled to; resigned to; resistant to; subject to; subservient to; susceptible to; unaccustomed to
     • aware of; bereft of; capable of; characteristic of; desirous of; devoid of; fond of; heedless of; illustrative of; incapable of; indicative of; mindful of; rreminiscent of; representative of
     • unhampered by; descended from; inherent in; lacking in; rooted in; steeped in; swathed in; contingent on; conversant with; filled with; fraught with; riddled with; tinged with
     • burdened by/with; dependent on/upon; immune from/to; inclined to/towards; incumbent on/upon; intent on/upon; parallel to/with; reliant on/upon; stricken by/with

3. NOUNS

   • coordination: comma
   • BEFORE:
     • GRADED: opinions - size - quality - age - shape
     • UNGRADED: age - shape - nationality - material
   • AFTER
     • prepositional clause (eager for) or to-infinitive clause (likely to)
     • Adjectives that are only used after a link verb but can be used after a noun if preceded by superlatives, adverb, first, last, only, every, any
     • formal, used "only" after a noun: designate, elect, emeritus, extraordinaire, incarnate, manqué, par excellence
     • when indicates measurement - e.g. six feet tall - deep, high, long, square, tall, thick, wide
   • BEFORE OR AFTER
     • WITHOUT CHANGING THE MEANING
       • affected, available, deluxe, enough, payable, required, suggested
     • IF PRECEDED BY SUPERLATIVE, FIRST, EVERY, LAST, ONLY, ANY
       • free, imaginable, necessary, open, possible, vacant, visible
     • CHANGE THE MEANING
       • concerned, involved, present, proper, responsible