LÚRIO UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Architecture and Physical planning

English Language

ADJECTIVES

STUDENT:

Walter Guto Da Conceição Dias

TEACHER:

MA. Hermenegildo Manuel

Nampula, December 2021

Index
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................

ADJECTIVE..........................................................................................................................

Qualitative......................................................................................................................4

Types of Adjectives.......................................................................................................4

Descriptive Adjectives...................................................................................................4

Proper Adjectives...........................................................................................................4

Limiting Adjectives.......................................................................................................4

Interrogative Adjectives.................................................................................................4

Coordinate Adjectives....................................................................................................4

Compound Adjectives....................................................................................................5

Determiners as Adjectives.............................................................................................6

Placement and Order of Adjectives........................................................................................

Using Adjectives....................................................................................................................

Possessive Adjectives....................................................................................................8

Demonstrative Adjectives..............................................................................................8

Coordinate Adjectives....................................................................................................8

Numbers Adjectives.......................................................................................................8

Indefinite Adjectives......................................................................................................9

Attributive Adjectives....................................................................................................9

CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................

BIBLIOGRAPHY................................................................................................................
INTRODUCTION
In The present work I will speak about the adjetives where I will bring conceive of what
are adjectives, their function, and the convenient way to use adjectives.

Here we need to know that adjectives are information gatherers. Specifically, they
provide further information about an object’s size, shape, age, color, origin or material
ADJECTIVE
The adjective is a word expressing a quality of a substance. In English adjectives are
divided into

Qualitative
Types of Adjectives
Remember that adjectives can modify as well as describe other words, and you’ll find it
much easier to identify different types of adjectives when you see them.

Descriptive Adjectives

Tom bought a used car. (used describes what kind of car Tom bought.)
Sally baked ten pies for the school bake sale. (ten tells how many pies Sally baked.)
Bob climbed that tree in the backyard. (that specifies which tree Bob climbed.)

A descriptive adjective names a quality of the noun or pronoun that it modifies.

Example: brown dog bigger house fluffy cat.

Proper Adjectives

A proper adjective is derived from a proper noun.

Example: French class Spanish food European car.

Limiting Adjectives

A limiting adjective restricts the meaning of the word it modifies.

Example: that car this room the tree.

Interrogative Adjectives

An interrogative adjective is used to ask a question.

Example: Whose book is this?

Coordinate Adjectives

A coordinate adjective consists of two or more adjectives separated by a comma instead

of by a coordinating conjunction.
Example: a cold, rainy day

To determine if you can replace the coordinating conjunction with a comma, see if the
adjectives can be reversed or if and can be added between the adjectives without
changing the meaning. If the adjectives can be reversed, they are coordinate and a
comma can be used.

Example:

The clowns arrived in a bright, shiny car.

The clowns arrived in a shiny, bright car. (Reversing bright and shiny does not change
the meaning.)
The clowns arrived in a bright and shiny car. (Adding and between bright and shiny
does not change the meaning.)

However, if the adjectives cannot be reversed or if and cannot be used, a comma cannot
be used.

Example: The clowns arrived in two colourful cars.

The clowns arrived in colourful two cars. (Reversing two and colourful changes the
meaning.) The clowns arrived in two and colourful cars. (Adding and between two and
colourful changes the meaning.)

Compound Adjectives

Compound adjectives consist of two or more words that function as a unit. Depending
on its position within the sentence, the compound adjective is punctuated with or
without a hyphen. When a compound adjective comes before the noun it modifies, use a
hyphen to join the adjectives. When a compound adjective follows the noun it modifies,
do not use a hyphen to join the adjectives.

Example: She is taking a class on nineteenth-century literature. (The adjective

nineteenth-century precedes the noun literature so a hyphen is used.)

She is studying literature from the nineteenth century. (The adjective nineteenth
century comes after the noun literature so no hyphen is used.)
 Determiners as Adjectives

Determiners, such as articles, pronouns, and numbers, can function as adjectives. When
a determiner is used as an adjective, it restricts the noun it modifies, like a limiting
adjective. Determiners functioning as adjectives tell Which one?, How many?, and
Whose?

Articles (a, an, the)

Possessive pronouns (my, our, your, his, her, its, their) Relative pronouns (whose,
which, whichever, what, whatever) Demonstratives (this, these, that, those)
Indefinite pronouns (any, each, other, some, etc.)
Cardinal Numbers (one, two, three, etc.)
Ordinal Numbers (last, first, second, etc.)
Possessive proper nouns (Bob’s, Sarah’s)

Example: Bob’s house is only three blocks from that house. (Bob’s answers the
question: Whose house? Three answers the question: How many blocks? That answers
the question: Which house is three blocks from Bob’s house?)

Placement and Order of Adjectives

A single noun can be described as a list of adjectives. When more than one adjective is
used to modify a noun, it is important to consider the order in which the adjectives
appear. Generally, the adjectives most important in completing the meaning of the noun
are placed closest to the noun. Following is the usual order of adjectives in a series:

1. Determiners: articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), and possessives (his,
our, Mary’s, everybody’s), amounts (one, five, many, few), order (first, next
last)
2. Coordinate adjectives (subjective evaluations or personal opinions): nice, nasty,
packed, pitiful
3. Adjectives describing size: big, huge, little, tiny
4. Adjectives describing shape: long, short, round, square
5. Adjectives describing age: young, old, modern, ancient
6. Adjectives describing colour: blue, green, red, white
7. Adjectives describing nationality: Italian, French, Japanese
 8. Adjectives describing architectural style or religion: Greek, Gothic, Catholic,
Jewish, Muslim
9. Adjectives describing material: cardboard, plastic, silver, gold
10. Nouns functioning as adjectives: soccer ball, cardboard box, history class

Example: a big brick house (article, size, and material)

these old brown cardboard boxes (demonstrative, age, colour, material)
a beautiful young Italian woman (article, personal opinion, age, nationality)

Using Adjectives

Adjectives as Subject Complements

The subject complement is a word that follows a linking verb and modifies the
sentence’s subject, not its verb. Linking verbs: appear, become, believe, feel, grow,
smell, seem, sound, remain, turn, prove, look, taste, and the forms of the verb to be.

Example: The crowd appeared calm. (The linking verb appeared links the noun the
subject crowd with the adjective calm)

Adjectives as Object Complements

The object complement is a word that follows a sentence’s direct object and modifies
that object and not the verb. An object complement answers the question what? after the
direct object.

Example: Bob considered the experiment a success. (Success is the object compliment
that modifies the sentences direct object experiment.)

Adjectives with Past and Present Participle Verbs

Adjectives are frequently formed by using the past participle (-ed, -t, or -en) and the
present participle (-ing) verb forms.

Example: The group of children scared the sleeping dog. (Sleeping describes the baby.)
The students refused to eat the dried fruit. (Dried describes the cookies.)
 Possessive Adjectives
As the name indicates, possessive adjectives are used to indicate possession. They are:
 My
 Your
 His
 Her
 Its
 Our
 Their
Possessive adjectives also function as possessive pronouns.
Demonstrative Adjectives
Like the article the, demonstrative adjectives are used to indicate or demonstrate
specific people, animals, or things. These, those, this and that are demonstrative
adjectives.
 These books belong on that
 This movie is my favorite.
 Please put those cookies on the blue plate.
Coordinate Adjectives
Coordinate adjectives are separated with commas or the word and, and appear one after
another to modify the same noun. The adjectives in the phrase bright, sunny day and
long and dark night are coordinate adjectives. In phrases with more than two coordinate
adjectives, the word and always appears before the last one; for example: The sign had
big, bold, and bright letters.
Be careful, because some adjectives that appear in a series are not coordinate. In the
phrase green delivery truck, the words green and delivery are not separated by a comma
because green modifies the phrase delivery truck. To eliminate confusion when
determining whether a pair or group of adjectives is coordinate, just insert the word and
between them. If and works, then the adjectives are coordinate and need to be separated
with a comma.
Numbers Adjectives
When they’re used in sentences, numbers are almost always adjectives. You can tell that
a number is an adjective when it answers the question “How many?”
 The stagecoach was pulled by a team of six
 He ate 23 hotdogs during the contest, and was sick afterwards.
 Indefinite Adjectives
Like the articles a and an, indefinite adjectives are used to discuss non-specific things.
You might recognize them, since they’re formed from indefinite pronouns. The most
common indefinite adjectives are any, many, no, several, and few.
 Do we have any peanut butter?
 Grandfather has been retired for many
 There are no bananas in the fruit bowl.
 I usually read the first few pages of a book before I buy it.
 We looked at several cars before deciding on the best one for our family.
Attributive Adjectives
Attributive adjectives talk about specific traits, qualities, or features – in other words,
they are used to discuss attributes. There are different kinds of attributive adjectives:
 Observation adjectives such as real, perfect, best, interesting, beautiful or
cheapest can indicate value or talk about subjective measures.
 Size and shape adjectives talk about measurable, objective qualities including
specific physical properties. Some examples include small, large, square, round,
poor, wealthy, slow and
 Age adjectives denote specific ages in numbers, as well as general ages.
Examples are old, young, new, five-year-old, and
 Colour adjectives are exactly what they sound like – they’re adjectives that
indicate colour. Examples include pink, yellow, blue, and
 Origin adjectives indicate the source of the noun, whether it’s a person, place,
animal or thing. Examples include American, Canadian, Mexican, French.
 Material adjectives denote what something is made of. Some examples include
cotton, gold, wool, and
Qualifier adjectives are often regarded as part of a noun. They make nouns more
specific; examples include log cabin, luxury car, and pillow cover.
• Please give me a banana. I’d like the one with the green stem.
• Let’s go on an adventure. The Grand Canyon mule ride sounds perfect!
Adjective Examples
In the following examples, the highlighted words are adjectives:
 They live in a big, beautiful
 Since it’s a hot day, Lisa is wearing a sleeveless
CONCLUSION
Concluding the present work of evaluation character I could perceive that: Adjectives
are words that describe or modify other words, making your writing and speaking much
more specific, and a whole lot more interesting. Words like small, blue, and sharp are
descriptive, and they are all examples of adjectives. All adjectives of two syllables may
form their degrees of comparison by adding “more” and “most” as well. Numbers 11
and 12 are in fact compound nouns, they are never separated.
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