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Adjectives
•Adjectives tell us more about nouns (someone or something).•An adjective usually comes before a noun.Examples:• John lives in a new house.
(adjective) (noun)
•She tells an exciting story. (adjective) (noun)
•I met a handsome man.•
(adjective) (noun)
Adjectives
• An adjective usually comes after a verb ‘to be’.
• The following are different forms of the verb ‘to be’:
am, is, are, was, were, shall be, will be.Examples: Your house is large. (verb) (adjective)
That insect is tiny. (verb) (adjective)
Oder of Opinion and Fact Adjectives
• Adjectives like big, new, old, large, round, brown, Malaysia, wooden are Fact Adjectives.
• They give us objective information about something. (e.g. : its age, size, shape, colour, origin, material)
• Adjectives like beautiful, pretty, cute, ugly, attractive, interesting are Opinion Adjectives.
• They tell us what someone think of something. (e.g. :its quality, appearance)
Oder of Opinion and Fact Adjectives
• Notice the order when opinion and fact adjectives are used together.
• Opinion adjectives usually appear before fact adjectives.
Examples: John lives in a beautiful, new house. (Opinion) (Fact ) (Noun)
Meena is the pretty, plump, short, Indian girl (Opinion) (Fact ) (Fact) (Fact) (Noun)
standing over there.
Oder of Opinion and Fact Adjectives
Article a, an theOpinion beautiful cuteF Size big littlea Age old newc Shape round ovalt Colour brown white
Origin Malaysian EuropeanMaterial wooden leathered
Noun chair purse
Fact Adjectives• Size and colour are two groups of fact adjectives
which we use very commonly.• When we use both before a noun, we follow this
order and do not use a comma or and: 1 2
Example: There is a big yellow hat on the shelf. There is a tiny white pearl in the oyster.
SIZE COLOURbig yellowtiny white
Fact Adjectives• When we use two fact adjectives from the colour
group, we place and between them. We can use the adjectives in any oder.
Examples: Her shoes are black and brown. Her shoes are brown and black.• The word colour is not used after a colour
adjective.Example: the red colour book. false the red book. true