THE PAPER ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ADJECTIVE PHARSE
Compiled to complete the task of English course

Compiled By :
Pebri Ika Ndani
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Fendy Budi Cahyono
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ADJECTIVE .........................................................................................................
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1. Definition of Adjective....................................................................................
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2. Type of Adjective.............................................................................................
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3. Suffix form Adjective......................................................................................
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4. Preffix form Adjective.....................................................................................
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5. Adjective Order...............................................................................................
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REFERENCES...........................................................................................................
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ADJECTIVE

1. Definition
Adjective is a word that modifies noun or pronoun. An adjective is a word that
gives more information about the noun or pronoun that goes with it.
Nouns are words that name a place, a person, a thing, or an idea
Pronoun is a word that substitutes a noun.
2. Type of adjective
a. Descriptive adjective or adjective of quality
Descriptive Adjective is the adjective that is used to tell the sorts of noun
or quality.These adjectives describe nouns that refer to action, state, or quality
(careless, dangerous, excited, sad, black, white, big, small, long).
Example:
She is a beautiful girl
Drilling is cutting process that used a drill bit to produce a cylindrical
holes
b. Numeral Adjective
Numeral Adjective is the adjective which is used to show the number of
noun. There are three types of. Numeral Adjective as follow :
Definite Numeral Adjective
Definite Numeral Adjective is the adjective that is used to denote an exact
number of noun as first, second, third or one, two, three.
Example:
Ankor Wat is the seventh wonders of the world.
There are three types of twist drill that have different helix angle.
Indefinite Numeral Adjective
Indefinite Numeral Adjective is the adjective which is used to denote an
inexact number of nouns as some, any, much, many, little, a few.
Example:
She has a few pictures.
If the drilling process produce too many chips we have to clean it
frequently.
Distributive Numeral Adjective
Distributive Numeral Adjective is the adjective that is used to cache one
noun. They are every, each, another, other...
Example:
Vertical drilling machine is one type of drilling machine. Other
types are coordinate drilling machine, hand drilling machine and
radial drilling machine.
They speak to another person
c. Possessive adjective

Possessive Adjective is the adjective which is used to point out the noun
that belongs to someone and there are seven Possessive Adjectives. They
are My, Your, Our, Their, His, Her and Its.
Example:
His girl friend is waiting
In this workshop there are two kind of drilling machine - hand drilling
machine and bench drilling machine, their specification are different
from other.
d. Demonstrative adjective
A demonstrative adjective (this, that, these, those) shows the noun it
modifies is singular or plural and whether the position of the noun is near or
far from the person who is speaking or writing. A demonstrative adjective also
points out a fact about the noun.
Example:
These girls are good-looking
That drilling machine is not operating
e. Interrogative Adjective
Interrogative Adjective is the adjective that is used to ask the question. They
are what, which.
Example:
Which animal do you like?
What material can be drilled by type W twist drill?
3. Adjective formed with prefixes
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Adding it to
the beginning of one word changes it into another word.
Prefix
aabanticounter-

Examples
asymmetric, asymptotic, asynchronous
abnormal
anticlockwise, anticorrosive, antiresonant, antistatic
counterclockwise, counterproductive

dedishyperil-

decentralized, decoded, deformed, demagnetizing, demotivating

disagreeable, disconnected, discontinuous, disintegrated, displaced
hyperactive, hypercritical, hypersensitive
illegal, illegible, illogical

imininter-

imperceptible, imperfect, impossible, impractical, improbable,

impure
inappropriate, inexperienced, infinite, informal, infrequent, insoluble,
insolvable, insufficient,
interdepartmental, interdisciplinary, interfaculty, international,
interrelated

irmisnonoverpresubsuperununder-

irregular, irrelevant, irreparable, irreplaceable, irresponsible,

irreversible
miscalculated, misguided, misinformed, misleading, mistaken,
misunderstood,
misused
non-controversial, non-corrosive, non-existent, non-flammable, nonlinear, nonprofit, non-standard,
overheated, overloaded, oversized, overworked
predetermined, premature, preset
subnormal, subtropical, suburban
superhuman, supernatural
unable, unaffected, unaware, unbalanced, uncertain, unclear,
uncontrollable, unusable, unusual
underdeveloped, underestimated, underfunded, underpaid,
underrated,

Notes:
- Some adjectives can have two forms with the same meaning,
e.g.counterclockwise/anticlockwise, non-existent/inexistent, nonscientific/unscientific.
- Most adjectives formed with prefixes are written as one word. In
some cases, e.g. after non-, a hyphen is used; however, usage varies.
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With some adjectives the prefix is different from the one used in nouns:
unable
inability
unstable
instability
unbalanced
imbalance (unbalance is less common)
unjust
injustice
unequal
inequality

4. Adjective formed with suffixes

Suffix is the ending part of a word that modifies the meaning of the word

Suffix
-able/-ible
-al
-ant

Example
admissible, possible, probable, reasonable
final, global, special
resistant, resultant

-ent
-ar
-ed
-ful

dependent, different, excellent, frequent, urgent

perpendicular, popular, regular, similar
interested, limited, related
harmful, helpful, successful
atomic, basic, economic(al), electric(al), mathematical,
scientific

-ic, -ical

-ive
-less
-ory

active, illustrative, indicative, sensitive

harmless, helpless, hopeless
introductory, preparatory, satisfactory

-ous
-y

porous, serious, various

busy, early, happy, healthy

5. Adjective Order
When we group adjectives together there is a general (sometimes flexible)
rule for the position of each type of adjective, these are:
Positio
n

1st*

2nd
*

3rd

4th

Opinio
n

Size

Ag
e

Shape

Nice

Smal
l

Old

Ugly

Big

Ne
w

5th

6th

7th

8th

Colou
r

Materi
al

Origin

Purpose

Square

Black

Plastic

British

Racing

Circul
ar

Blue

Cotton

America
n

Running

Example:
She has a big, ugly, old, baggy, blue, stripey, cotton, British, knitting bag

REFERENCES

Pengertian dan Contoh Kalimat Adjective (Kata Sifat Bahasa

Inggris)
http://www.wordsmile.com/pengertian-macam-contoh-kalimat-adjectives.
Accessed on 1 April , 2015.
Types Of Adjective
http://advancegrammar.blogspot.com/2009/07/types-of-adjective.html. Accessed
on 1 April , 2015.
Types of Adjectives
http://fos.iloveindia.com/types-of-adjectives.html. Accessed on 22 April 2015
Vocabulary Building
http://www.uefap.com/vocab/build/building.htm. Accessed on 1 April 2015
Adjective formed by prefixes
http://en.fel.zcu.cz/AE%20I%20A%20Remedial%20Course%20in%20English
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Adjective formed by suffixes
http://en.fel.zcu.cz/AE%20I%20A%20Remedial%20Course%20in%20English
%20Grammar/Adjectives/Adjectives%20formed%20with%20suffixes.pdf.
Accessed on 26 April 2015
Adjective Order
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adjectiveorder.html#sthash.uRbxbYug.dpuf.
Accessed on 26 April 2015