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.

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:

A. Read the captions and mark the adjectives in different forms:

He was better than any other fielder in that match.

Mashrafe Mortaza is one of the most successful captains of Bangladesh.

B. Look at the adjectives in the following sentences:

Mahin is a tall boy. Safin is taller than Mahin. Raiyan is the tallest of the three. Mahin bought a big basket. Safin bought a basket bigger than that of Mahin. Raiyan bought the biggest basket of the shop.

There are three forms of Adjectives:

tall (positive) taller (comparative) — tallest (Superlative)

big (positive) — bigger (comparative) — biggest (Superlative)

C. Comparative and Superlative forms

i) Most positive adjectives of one syllable take 'er' and 'est' to form comparative and superlative degrees respectively.

iii) All adjectives of two syllables ending in le, y, er, and ow generally take 'er' and 'est' to form their comparative and superlative forms respectively.

iv) Some positive adjectives take comparative and superlative forms without following the regular norms.

v) Adjectives of more than two syllables and many of those with two form their comparative and superlative degrees by putting 'more' and 'most' before the positive respectively.

C. Complete the sentences using the words in the box:

It was their first ----- holiday and Jamie was so excited.
"I can't wait to go skiing," he said, "and all that sun and snow will be wonderful!"
The plane landed at a ----- airport and very soon Jamie and Jasmine and their parents were in a small, ------ hotel at the bottom of a mountain. They went outside and looked. They saw --- mountains all around them.

"Tomorrow I want to go up a mountain," said Jamie.

They went back to the hotel. There was a ------ fireplace and it was warm. In front of the fire they saw a big ------ dog. It was asleep and snoring happily.

Jasmine liked dogs. She patted the dog on the head. It opened one eye and yawned. Jasmine saw the dog's name on his collar - Bruno. The dog looked at Jasmine and smiled. Then it closed its' eyes, crossed its' paws and went back to sleep.

"What a ------ dog," said Jasmine. "He's a big ------ softie."

They left the ----- firelight and went upstairs to bed. In no time at all Jamie was dreaming of speeding up and down mountains as a champion skier.

D. Fill in the blanks with appropriate adjectives:

Sirajum Munira is a ------- girl. Bondhon is her cousin. Both of them read in the same school. Bondhon is ------ than Munira.Bondhon has a very -----brother, named Tanbin. He is so cute. To Munira's aunt, he is ----------- ---------- baby in the world. Munira loves Tanbin so much. She is Tanbin's --------- sister. She plays with him. She is ------- than Tanbin. Bondhon is ---------- about Tanbin, so is Munira about him. When Tanbin cries, Bondhon calls his mother and Munira gives him ------ toys. Tanbin loves ----- toys. Tanbin's father presents him with ----- toys too.