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    This document provides information about adjectives, including their definition, uses, types, order, forms, and comparisons. It explains that adjectives describe nouns and can come before or after verbs. Common types are descriptive, quantity, demonstrative, and possessive. Adjectives often follow an order like opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. They can have endings like -able or -ish and be made comparative or superlative with -er, -est or more, most. The document also includes examples and a link to an adjective quiz.

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    This document provides information about adjectives, including their definition, uses, types, order, forms, and comparisons. It explains that adjectives describe nouns and can come before or after verbs. Common types are descriptive, quantity, demonstrative, and possessive. Adjectives often follow an order like opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. They can have endings like -able or -ish and be made comparative or superlative with -er, -est or more, most. The document also includes examples and a link to an adjective quiz.

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    This document provides information about adjectives, including their definition, uses, types, order, forms, and comparisons. It explains that adjectives describe nouns and can come before or after verbs. Common types are descriptive, quantity, demonstrative, and possessive. Adjectives often follow an order like opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. They can have endings like -able or -ish and be made comparative or superlative with -er, -est or more, most. The document also includes examples and a link to an adjective quiz.

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    ADJECTIVES

    & -ing forms

    Ilse C.
    A MAN'S CHAR ACTER M AY BE LEA RN ED FR OM
    THE ADJECTIVES W HICH HE HABITU ALLY USE S
    IN CONVERSATION.
    -Mark Twain
    ADJECTIVES
    Adjectives are words that describe the qualities
    or states of being of nouns

    Possessive
    Descriptive
    Quantity My, your, his
    Big, Green, Cold
    Enough, six, few
    HOW TO USE THEM
    An adjective often comes BEFORE a noun:
    The green car
    And sometimes an adjective comes AFTER
    a verb: The car is green
    Adjectives can also modify pronouns: She is
    beautiful
    We can often use two or more adjectives
    together: She is beautiful and smart
    1. Descriptive
    Describe nouns that refer to action, state, or
    TYPES OF quality

    ADJECTIVES
    careless, dangerous, excited, sad, black, white…
    2. Quantity
    Tells us the number (how many) or amount (how
    much) of a noun
    three, much, plenty, many, six…
    3. Demonstrative
    Before a noun to specifically state the noun is being
    referred to.
    This, that, this, former, the other
    4. Possessive
    possession of a noun by someone or something
    My, your, his, her, its…
    ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
    adjectives before a noun often follow this order: MEXICAN
    RED Origin
    ROUND
    OLD SILK
    Colour

    LITTLE
    Shape
    SLEEPING Material
    GREAT PILLOW
    Age
    Size Purpose

    Opinion
    Noun
    ADJECTIVE FORM
    Some adjectives have particular endings, for example:
    -able/-ible: washable, credible
    -ish/-like: childish, childlike
    -ful/-less: careful, careless
    -ous: dangerous, harmonious
    -y: dirty, pretty
    COMPARATIVE/ SUPERLATIVE

    -ER, -EST MORE, THE MOST

    big, bigger, biggest beautiful


    more beautiful
    the most beautiful
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    QUIZ!
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