TYPES OF ADJECTIVES

- Dr. Maunas Thaker

Assistant Professor,
 Dr. babasaheb Ambedkar Open Univessity,
Ahmedabad

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INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES:

1. To enable the student recall their pre-knowledge

about a part of speech- adjective.
2. To enable the student to place the adjectives properly
in a sentence.
3. To enable the student to correct the mistakes
regarding order of adjectives in a spoken Sentence.
4. To enable the student to frame sentences with proper
order of more than one adjectives.
5. To enable the student to frame correct sentences
having different types of adjectives.
6. To make the student participate in various activities
in the class.

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TESTING PREVIOUS
 The students KNOWLEDGE:
know Parts of Speech in general and
Adjective in particular.
 A word used with noun to describe or point out, the
person, animal, place or thing which the noun names,
or to tell the number or quantity, is called an adjective.
 Students know the (traditional) types of Adjective. i.e.
 Adjective of Quality: large, nice, honest, foolish,
english, round, red, Indian etc.
 Adjective of Quantity: some, much, little, enough, all,
no, any, great, half, whole, sufficient etc.
 Numeral Adjective etc. few, five, no, all, much, all,
some, most, several, first, etc.

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INTRODUCTION
 Conventionally we learn the above mentioned types of
adjectives (Quantitative, Qualitative etc.). But we commit
mistakes when many different types of adjectives are used
in a sentence. e.g.‘Mohan had an old nice book.’: What
mistake is committed in this sentence?
Check out some more sentences.
 My black new bicycle is stolen.- new black bicycle.
 Harish bought an old nice Gujarati book. -nice old Gujarati book.
 I have a red round rubber ball.-round red rubber ball.
We often make mistakes in placing adjectives at proper
place. So it is necessary to learn the correct order or
sequence of the adjectives to be written in a sentence. Let
us ldiscuss then about the order of adjectives.

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PRESENTATION OF THE CONTENT MATERIAL:

 Adjectives are of following types. These adjectives are placed in a

sentence in the order given bellow. “OPSHACOM”
 1.Opinion: lazy, good, bad, nice, fine, simple, modern, ordinary,
extraordinary, etc.
 2.Shape: round, square, rectangular, circle, triangle,
 3. Age:new, novel, old, latest, aged, fresh, stale, musty, decayed, recent
etc.
 4.Colour:White, black, Red, Blue, Brown, Violet, Pink, Orange,
Yellow.
 5. Origin: Indian. American, Gujarati, Australian, British, English,
Spanish, etc.
 6. Material: wooden, iron., metal, silver, golden, plastic, paper, air,
liquid, rubber Eg. I have a nice square old brown Indian wooden table.
 She has a black and white T.V.( adjectives of same type are joined by
‘and’)

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TEACHING METHODS:

 Inductive- Deductive Method

 Structural approach.

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
Mention the parts of speech used in the following
sentence

Neha has worn a beautiful pink sari today.

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

Mohan had an old nice

book.

Mohan had a nice old book

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
1. My black new bicycle is stolen.

2. Harish bought an old nice Gujarati book.

3. I have a red round rubber ball.

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
1. My new black bicycle is stolen.

2. Harish bought a nice old Gujarati book.

3. I have a round red rubber ball.

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

I bought a nice round

old brown Indian
wooden table.

Made
Madeinin
India
India

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 OP SH A C O M
ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

OP - OPINION
SH - SHAPE
A - AGE
C - ORIGIN
O - COLOUR
M - MATERIAL

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Prepare one sentence having more
than one adjectives on the pictures
shown below.

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Thank You
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Source:
ES- 344, IGNOU B.Ed. Programme
Professor Grammar
http://professorgrammar.com/
http://professorgrammar.com/opshacom1.shtml

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