Adjectives

Degrees of Comparison

June 18, 2010

Read the following sentences: John is tall. Peter is taller than John. Harry is the tallest of the three. In sentence 1, the adjective tall merely says something about John’s height. It doesn’t state how tall John is. In sentence 2, the adjective taller is used to compare John’s height with Peter’s height. In sentence [...]

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Adjectives used without nouns

June 4, 2010

Adjectives are often used without nouns. To refer to some well-known groups of people The structure the + adjective is used to talk about some well-known groups of people. Examples are: the blind, the deaf, the unemployed, the rich, the poor, the young, the old, the dead etc. He is collecting money for the blind. [...]

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What are adjectives?

June 2, 2010

An adjective is a word like kind, happy, smart and intelligent. An adjective typically modifies a noun and denotes a temporary or permanent quality associated with that noun. For example, a smart boy is a boy who is distinguished from other boys by being smart. Not all adjectives are used to denote a quality associated [...]

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