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Adjectives
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Examples Henry and Claire are having dinner in a quiet restaurant. It’s a warm evening. The food is delicious. Henry is feeling romantic.
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Use Adjectives are words like dark, warm, new, good that describe a noun. For example: Clair’s got a new car. (new describes the car.) This is dark coffee. (dark describes the coffee.) My dog is old. (old describes my dog.) The hamburger tastes good. (good describes the hamburger.)
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Word Order There are two places where we can use an adjective: Before a noun Example: That is a fast car. After a linking verb Example: This food smells funny. Some linking verbs are: appear, be, become, feel, get, look, seem, smell, stay, taste.
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Word Order It’s possible to use more adjectives together. Examples: It’s a quiet little restaurant. Mike was wearing a dirty old coat. We can also put words like very or quite before an adjective. Examples: It was a very dark night. Henry was feeling quite romantic.
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Making Comparisons To make comparisons with short adjectives (e.g. cheap) we use adjective + er or est Example: This car is cheaper than mine, but that one is the cheapest.
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Making Comparisons For long adjectives (e.g. expensive) we use more or most + adjective. Example: This car is more expensive than mine, but that one is the most expensive I’ve ever seen. Notes: One-syllable adjectives ending in ed use more and most as well. Some two-syllable adjectives use both er/est and more/most (e.g. narrow,pleasant, simple, useful, hopeless, etc.)
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Making Comparisons Some adjectives have irregular forms. Some examples are: good-better-best bad-worse-worst far-farther-farthest
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Making Comparisons Spelling (1) Words ending in a consonant + y have er, est. and the y becomes an i. Example: I’m happy, but he is happier. They are the happiest by far. Words ending in e just get r or st Example: My car is safe, but his car is safer. That car is the safest.
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Making Comparisons Spelling (2) Words ending in a single vowel letter + a single consonant letter get a double consonant. Examples: Today is hot. Tomorrow is hotter. Yesterday was the hottest.
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