INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU

KAMPUS SULTAN ABDUL HALIM

08000, SUNGAI PETANI, KEDAH DARUL AMAN.
PROGRAM IJAZAH SARJANA MUDA PERGURUAN
(PISMP-SEJARAH)
AMBILAN JUN 2016

NAME OF COURSE: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

PROFICIENCY
CODE OF COURSE: MPU3022
NAME OF LECTURER: MR. MOHAMMAD
ZEEREE KANRENG

By:
CHING LEE PENG
YOO WEN WEN
YU YEN XIN
Parts of Speech:
ADJECTIVES
 Adjectives
An Adjective is a word which
qualifies or adds to the meaning of a
noun.
An Adjective is a word that
describes a noun.
Adjectives may be divided into three
main classes.
Descriptive Adjectives
Adjective of Quantity
Adjectives of Distinction
 Descriptive Adjectives
Strictly speaking, a typical
adjective is descriptive in nature,
used to show the quality of a person,
animal or thing (Tan, 2012).
Example: Old, young, pale, red,
good, bad, hard, soft, beautiful, ugly.
Sample sentence: The man is old
but he still can work as a
construction worker.
 Adjective of Quantity
a) Definite (including numerals)
Example: One, three, seven, third, fifth,
both, double.
Sample sentence: I have three bars of
chocolate and I would like to share it with
my friends.

b) Indefinte
Example: All, any, few, much, many,
several, some.
Sample sentence: I have some ideas
about how to complete the puzzle in three
minutes.
 Adjectives of Distinction
a) Demonstrative
Example: This, that, these, those, yon, yonder.
Sample sentence: This is my neighbour,
James.

b) Interrogative
Example: Which, what, whose.
Sample sentence: What time should we
have to pass up our assignments today? asked
Bill.

c) Distributive
Example: Each, every, either, neither.
Sample sentence: I had to tidy up my room
every week.
 Comparison of Adjectives
There are three grades of
adjective:
positive,
comparative and
superlative.
(Jeremy J. Smith, 2001)
 Positive
The Positive is simply descriptive,
describing a noun or pronoun, e.g.
beautiful dress, intelligent students,
a short holiday.
Sample sentence: Susans family
live in a beautiful house.
 Comparative
The Comparative is used in
comparing some creature, thing or
group with one other. e.g. the taller of
the two; taller than the Kuala Lumpur
Twins Tower; mice are smaller than
rats.
If the positive is a short word the
comparative is usually formed by
adding er to the positive, e.g. slow-er;
great-er.
Sample sentence: Jeff is taller than
 Superlative
The Superlative is used in comparing
some creature, thing or group with
more than one other, e.g. the tallest
of the three; the wisest of men.
It is usually formed by adding est to
the positive, if a short word (Maciver, A.,
2004).
When one thing or creature is compared
with more than one other treated as a
group, the comparative is used.
Sample sentence: Janet is the tallest
among her friends.
***Adjectives of three syllables or
more and most adjectives of two
syllables form their comparative by
placing more in front of the positive,
and the superlative by placing most in
front (Maciver, A., 2004).

***Some of the adjectives have quite

different words for the comparative
and superlative.
 Positive Comparati Superlative

ve
a) Small word happy happier happiest

in positive big bigger biggest

b) Different bad worse worst

word for good better best

comparative

and

superlative
c) Longer comfortable more comfortable most comfortable

word in careful more careful most careful

positive
 Bibliography
Books
Dr. Tan, C.L. Strengthen English
Grammar. Selangor Darul Ehsan: SAP
Publications (M) Sdn. Bhd., 2012.
Jeremy J. Smith. Chambers School
Grammer. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap,
2001.
Maciver, A. The New First Aid In English
Second Edition. London: Hodder Gibson,
2004.

Websites
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