Elements of english grammar

Carried out by:

Carolin Daniela Díaz Palacio

Teacher:
Marco Antonio Saldarriaga Herrera

Career :
International Business Administration

Semester 4

Idiomas 2

Universidad Remington
WHAT IS ADJECTIVE:

An adjective is a class of word or part of a sentence that qualifies a noun, and that
provides additional information or complements its meaning. The adjective is
placed before or after the noun in agreement in gender and number.
Adjectives determine nouns by specifying or highlighting their characteristics. For
example, 'the yellow ball', 'the old car'. They are also widely used for general or
abstract descriptions. For example, 'the yellow color of flowers', without specifying
the type of flower, or' it was a difficult competition ', with 'difficult' being an abstract
adjective. From the semantic point of view, the adjective can express different
characteristics such as: qualities (beautiful, tall), states (single, sad, happy),
attitudes (active, idealistic), possibilities (probable, incredible), origin or nationality
(Mexican, Argentine), among others.
The adjective is characterized by having inflection, that is, morphemes that
combine with its lexeme agreeing in gender (female/male) and number
(singular/plural). If the noun has no gender variation, the accompanying article
should be used.
Therefore the adjective depends on the adjacent noun to establish its form,
whether it varies or not. For example, 'free/free', 'infantile /infantile', 'good/good',
'isosceles'.

TYPES OF ADJECTIVES
There are different types or categories of adjectives that are used daily in order to
highlight the characteristics or determine the nouns to which we refer. The
following are the most commonly used adjectives.
Qualifying adjectives
Adjectives describe or qualify the noun or subject of a sentence by highlighting
one or more qualities. Some of the most used are: cute, ugly, tall, short, friendly,
kind, slow, fast, attentive, small, big, fat, thin, curious, happy, sad, new, old, yellow,
blue, red, green, simple, dirty, clean, strong, fragile, cruel, wide, thin, cheerful,
affectionate, among others.
For example:
'your daughter is too tall for her age.'
The blue car is my uncle's.
'the book is short and easy to read.'
'I feel happy this evening.'

DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES

They determine a relationship of proximity that exists in relation to the noun being
spoken of. They are: this, that, that, that, that, that, that, these, those, those, those,
those.
For example:
'this apartment is mine.'
'that washing machine is good.
"Those blankets must be washed."
'your kitchen gloves are these'

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
Are characterized by attributing to the noun an idea of belonging or possession.
These adjectives can come before or after the noun and are: my, your, his, our /
our, your / yours, my, your, their, our / our, your / yours. For example: ʽMy bracelet
and your earringsʼ. That book is mine. 'In our house we have a fireplace.' 'Are
those shoes yours?' "His presentation was brief."
ADJECTIVES BELONG TO THE CATEGOR
Of descriptive adjectives, and are those adjectives that express a quality of the
subject. For example: the powerful computer. / the blue sky. / the huge planet....
For example: an old friend. / an old friend.

QUALITATIVE ADJECTIVES
An adjective used to identify the qualities or characteristics of a person or thing.
Unlike adjective classification, qualitative adjectives are usually qualifiable, i.e. they
have positive, comparative and superlative forms.

ADJECTIVES OF COLOR
If the adjective is only colored (red, green, blue, yellow, etc.), the adjective
matches the noun: red shirts, blue pants. If the adjective is originally a noun that
designates fruits, flowers, etc.

WHAT ARE SIMPLE ADJECTIVES?

Simple adjectives are those that come from a single root, unlike compound
adjectives, which come from the union of two or more words.

EXAMPLES OF SIMPLE ADJECTIVES:

Here are some examples of simple adjectives:
White.
Black.
Falco.
High.
Quick.
Beautiful.
Compounds.
Simple.
Simple.
Cultural.
Artistic.
Literary.
Narrative.
Linguistic.
Fat.
Own.
Alien.
Distant.
Luminous.
Dark.
Hot.
Cold.
Bad.
Okay.

CLASSIFIER ADJECTIVES OR RELATIONAL ADJECTIVES

They express the belonging of what is designated by the noun to a certain class.
Among them are the people and those who express relationship or belonging.