A. Read the words in italics in the following captions:
What are the words in italics for?
What are the functions of these words?
The words 'good', 'happy', 'fine' and 'hilly' modify the nouns after them.
These words are to provide some information about nouns i.e. they state the quality of nouns.
When someone wants to present information about something, one can do it by using a Noun alone; but, one can use an Adjective to modify or describe it in more detail. Therefore, adjectives give additional information about a Noun or Pronoun.
Note: The form of an Adjective does not change with singular and plural. |
B. Identify adjectives in the following passage:
Muntaha is Bani's best friend. Bani is a brilliant student. She borrowed three books from Muntaha. All the books are new. The books are interesting as well.
Do all the above adjectives take the same position in the sentences?
In some sentences, the adjective is used before a noun. But in other sentences, the adjective comes after the verb. The adjectives that come before a noun are called attributive adjectives and those coming after a verb are called predicative adjectives.
C. Use the following adjectives in different positions. One is done for you:
Safe, interesting, new, old, unsafe, excellent, huge, quite, cold, yellow, nice, hot, enormous, furious, gorgeous, crazy, tiny.
Safe: We had a safe journey. (before a noun)
Our journey was safe. (after a verb)
I found him safe. (after an object)
D. Match the following adjectives with the nouns they go with:
gorgeous | crowd |
terrifying | insect |
tiny | experience |
exhausted | music |
soaked | temperatures |
huge | dress |
starving | customer |
freezing | clothes |
furious | meal |
terrible | comedy show |
hilarious | refugee |
deafening | runner |
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