Adjectives have 3 distinctive features:

1. They immediately precede the nouns that

they modify
2. They have comparative and superlative
forms
3. They can be used as predicative adjectives

Example
Slow car should stay in the right lane.
 Slow car should stay in the right lane.
1) It immediately precedes the noun being modified.
2) It has comparative and superlative forms.
BASE FORM COMPARATIVE FORM SUPERLATIVE FORM
slow slower the slowest
3) It can be used as a predicative adjective (an
adjectives that function as predicates of linking
verbs).
The car is slow.
 BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
strong stronger the strongest
fast faster the fastest
sweet
loud
weak
small

Summarize!
We form comparative and superlative forms of
one-syllable adjectives with –er and –est ending.
 BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
beautiful more beautiful the most beautiful
elegant
expensive
nutritious
impossible
mysterious
magnificent

Summarize!
We form comparative and superlative forms of
three or more-syllable adjectives with more and
the most.
 handsome?
clever?
polite?
A few adjectives can even use both ways.
• Susan is politer than Alice. Susan is the politest
student in her class.
• Susan is more polite than Alice. She is the most
polite person I know.
 Two-syllable adjectives end in -le and -y

BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

simple simpler the simplest
gentle
noble

BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

happy happier the happiest
noisy
pretty
 Adjectives that derived from verbs ending
in -ing or -ed.

BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

charming more charming the most charming
trusting
tempting

BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

respected more respected the most respected
rejected
exploited
Irregular Comparative and
Superlative Forms
good better best
bad worse worst
little less least
much
many more most
some
far further furthest
 BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
sad
valuable
sunny
patient
improved
normal
strange
bad
available
shady

LIST OF ADJECTIVES:
http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-adjectives.html
We often use two or three adjectives to modify
a single noun. For example, consider the
following phrase:
huge old white house
Here the adjectives huge, old, and white all
modify the noun, house.
When multiple adjectives modify the same
noun, there is a fixed left-to-right order to the
adjectives based on their meaning.
 eg. the, a/an, this, that,
eg. beautiful, interesting
eg.large, round
eg. young, old, new, ancient
eg. red, black, pale
French, American, Canadian
eg. woolen, metallic, wooden
 THE ROYAL ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
DETER MATERI
OPINION PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION ORIGIN NOUN
MINER AL
Size Shape Age Color

a beautiful old Italian car

an expensive antique silver mirror

long-
four gorgeous red silk roses
stemmed

her short black hair

our big old English sheepdog

those square wooden boxes

that dilapidated little cabin

several enormous young American players

some delicious Thai food

1. Italian / sports / fantastic CAR
2. French / nice / old TEACHER
3. alarm / red / small CLOCK
4. African / delicious / green GRAPES
5. plastic / red / new CHAIR
6. large / grey / aged CAT
7. modern / black / long DESK
8. blue / tiny / ancient BIKE

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