Description of Adjective

Adjective tells you something about the noun.

Examples: yellow, tall, amazing, bad, green, high, quick, important.

Adjective also can be described as word or combination of words that modifies a noun (blue-green, central, half-baked, temporary).

Here are some characteristic of adjective:

-Adjective is a word that expresses an attribute of something.

- Adjective is the word class that qualifies nouns.

- An adjective is almost always placed before a noun in English.

- Adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, refining, or qualifying it.

- Adjective is having grammatical function of comparison

- An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually making its meaning more specific. Adjectives are used in a predicative or attributive manner.

- The most usual positions of adjectives is before the noun it modifies. There are some positions of adjectives at other positions, e.g. fifteen feet deep, the sky above, chapter five, etc.

- Adjective can be identified by special derivational endings or by special adverbial modifiers that precede it.

- Examples of the sequence of adjectives in a noun phrase:

1.            Both the gifted young Negro college students

2.            Those three self-conscious little women

3.            The first ten four multi-purpose aluminum kitchen utensils

4.            That temperamental Korean opera singer.

Grammatical Structures as Adjectives:

1. The boy who is standing over there (adjective clause)

2. The boy sitting over there (participial phrase)

3. The boy at the desk over there (prepositional phrase)

4. The boy over there (adverbial)

5. The boy to finish on time (infinitive phrase)

Adjectives as others:

1. The great, the waken (noun)

2. Hold tight (adverb)