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    Adjectives are words used to add meaning to nouns. Many common adjectives are derived from nouns by adding suffixes like "-ish", "-y", or "-able". Some examples provided are boyish, foolish, dirty, stormy, and gifted which come from the nouns boy, fool, dirt, storm, and gift respectively. Adjectives can also be formed from verbs by changing the verb form to an adjective, such as tiresome from tire or talkative from talk.

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    Adjectives are words used to add meaning to nouns. Many common adjectives are derived from nouns by adding suffixes like "-ish", "-y", or "-able". Some examples provided are boyish, foolish, dirty, stormy, and gifted which come from the nouns boy, fool, dirt, storm, and gift respectively. Adjectives can also be formed from verbs by changing the verb form to an adjective, such as tiresome from tire or talkative from talk.

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    Adjectives Grammar

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    Adjectives are words used to add meaning to nouns. Many common adjectives are derived from nouns by adding suffixes like "-ish", "-y", or "-able". Some examples provided are boyish, foolish, dirty, stormy, and gifted which come from the nouns boy, fool, dirt, storm, and gift respectively. Adjectives can also be formed from verbs by changing the verb form to an adjective, such as tiresome from tire or talkative from talk.

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    Adjectives

    Adjectives are words used with nouns to add to their meaning.

    Forming adjectives from nouns

    Many adjectives we use in daily life are derived from nouns. Some examples
    are given below.
    noun adjective
    boy boyish
    fool foolish

    dirt dirty
    storm stormy
    care careful/careless
    play playful

    hope hopeful/hopeless
    trouble troublesome
    shame shameful/shameless
    sense senseless/sensible

    silk silky
    gold golden
    pardon pardonable
    laugh laughable

    outrage outrageous
    courage courageous
    glory glorious
    envy envious
    man manly
    king kingly
    gift gifted

    health healthy
    heaven heavenly

    formed from verbs.


    verb adjective

    tire tiresome/tireless
    talk talkative
    cease ceaseless
    move moveable

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