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What are some common suffixes for adjectives?
What is the attributive position of the adjective?
What is its position?
What meaning is suggested by –ing participles as adjectives (active meaning)
What meaning is suggested by –ed participles as adjectives (passive meaning)
Give some examples of a compound adjective – an English-speaking audience
Groups of Adjectives – order – What is the usual order?
Opinion- size- quality/ character – age- shape –colour-participles-origin-material-type-purpose
I. Attributive Function – pre-modify a noun, positioned between Determiner and the Head of
the noun phrase
III. Can be pre-modified by intensifiers (are gradable) – very, not very, somewhat, rather
NOTE:
1. Not all adjs. exhibit all features;
2. Features 3 and 4 may be exhibited in the same way in words
3. Adjs that are both Attributive and Predicative are called Central Adjectives
Note : passive meaning with –ed adjectives when there si a corresponding verb.
Eg. Lost property – property that has been lost.
5. Compund Adjectives :
Rarely-performed; slow-moving
6. Ordering of Adjectives