Grammar - adjectives

1. ADJECTIVES
Effective Grammar’s Book page 21

2. Position of Adjectives
Before
Nouns
After
Verbs
After Nouns
or Pronouns
1. That beautiful girl is my mother.
2. I buy an expensive wallet.
1. These students are smart.
2. Some subjects are boring.
1. She meets the Princess Royal.
2. I like something spicy.

3. A suffix is a word part
added to the end of a word
Suffixes

4. Formation of Adjectives : Suffixes
Common
Suffixes
Examples
- able, - ible enjoyable, knowledgeable, flexible,
- al, - ial personal, accidental, controversial
- ing annoying, boring, confusing
- ful beautiful, careful, colourful, helpful
- ical comical, historical, magical
- ant, - ent pleasant, confident, excellent
- y funny, messy, rainy

5. Comparison of Adjectives
Regular Forms
Positive Comparative Superlative
sweet sweeter sweetest
simple simpler simplest
pretty prettier prettiest
colourful more colourful most colourful
interesting more interesting most interesting

6. The Positive Degree. This offers no comparison. It
just tells us about the existence of a quality.
The Comparative Degree. This compares two things
to show which has the lesser or greater degree of the
quality.
The Superlative Degree. This compares more than
two things to show which has the least or greatest
degree of the quality.
Degree of
Comparison

7. Comparison of Adjectives
Irregular Forms
Positive Comparative Superlative
Good Better Best
Bad Worse Worst
Little Less Least
Few Fewer Fewest
Far Further Furthest
Many More Most

8. Exercise of Adjectives
Read the question and write your answer using comparatives.
1. Which is faster? A motorbike or a cheetah?
2. Which is taller? A giraffe or an elephant?
3. Which is bigger? America or Russia?
4. Which is heavier? A blue whale or a bus?
5. Which is slower? A tortoise or a snail?
6. Which is shorter? A kangaroo or an ostrich?
7. Which is smaller? A basketball or a soccer ball?
8. Which is quicker? Light or sound?

9. Comprehension
Rewrite the sentence below with the correct comparison adjectives!
1. The students in this school are more smart than them.
2. National monument is the most tall building in Indonesia.
3. Cleopatra was the beautifulest queen in Egypt.
4. Kiki and Lala are the most young kids in our big family.
5. That accident was the most bad thing I ever had.
6. He is more nice than his cousin.
7. She was famous as the most strong athlete in her country.
8. Jeffrey’s house is the most far from school compared to his friends.
9. Neil’s grandfather is not as oldest as his grandmother.
10. The comedian tells a joke more funny than mine.

10. Complete the chart below of adjective of comparison.
Fast Faster Fastest
High
Lower
Slowest
Quicker
Hardest
Loud
Softer

11. Use the adverbs in the chart and other adjectives you may
know to complete the paragraph below.
In our family, Shamila is the ___________, as she always takes
forever to finish things. Ismael is the ___________ because his
voice is just, well, very loud. I am _____ than Shamila at
finishing things and __________ than Ismael when I speak,
and because I try my ___________ at school I am the
__________ in our family.

12. Modifying Adjectives
adjectives can be modified with the help of adverbs.
Salty Very salty
Spicy Quite spicy
Tired Extremely tired
Challenging Incredibly challenging
Funny Ridiculously funny
Late Almost always late

13. Nouns Functioning as Adjectives
Nouns can behave like adjectives when used together with another noun.
Example :
1. Fiction book
2. Gift bag
3. Race horse
4. Tennis shoes
5. War story
6. History teacher
7. Bicycle shop
8. Sports club
9. Clothes shop

14. Adjectives Functioning as Nouns
Some adjectives are used as nouns to
describe groups of people. For example :
when we refer to sick people, we can
simply say the sick.
Each of the adjectives must follow the
definite the.

15. Example :
1. The seaside resort is frequented by the rich and
famous.
2. Every year, millions join the ranks of the unemployed
worldwide.
3. There seems to have no plans to provide cheap
housing for the homeless.
4. The injured were in the thousands.
5. The disabled have found it very difficult to get a job.
6. The accused is found guilty.
7. The deceased was believed to have killed himself.

16. LET’S ANSWER
EXERCISE 8 & 9
EFFECTIVE GRAMMAR
BOOK PAGE 25 AND 26