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Example
Slow car should stay in the right lane.
Slow car should stay in the right lane.
1) It immediately precedes the noun being modified.
2) It has comparative and superlative forms.
BASE FORM COMPARATIVE FORM SUPERLATIVE FORM
slow slower the slowest
3) It can be used as a predicative adjective (an
adjectives that function as predicates of linking
verbs).
The car is slow.
BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
strong stronger the strongest
fast faster the fastest
sweet
loud
weak
small
Summarize!
We form comparative and superlative forms of
one-syllable adjectives with –er and –est ending.
BASE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
beautiful more beautiful the most beautiful
elegant
expensive
nutritious
impossible
mysterious
magnificent
Summarize!
We form comparative and superlative forms of
three or more-syllable adjectives with more and
the most.
handsome?
clever?
polite?
A few adjectives can even use both ways.
• Susan is politer than Alice. Susan is the politest
student in her class.
• Susan is more polite than Alice. She is the most
polite person I know.
Two-syllable adjectives end in -le and -y
LIST OF ADJECTIVES:
http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-adjectives.html
We often use two or three adjectives to modify
a single noun. For example, consider the
following phrase:
huge old white house
Here the adjectives huge, old, and white all
modify the noun, house.
When multiple adjectives modify the same
noun, there is a fixed left-to-right order to the
adjectives based on their meaning.
eg. the, a/an, this, that,
eg. beautiful, interesting
eg.large, round
eg. young, old, new, ancient
eg. red, black, pale
French, American, Canadian
eg. woolen, metallic, wooden
THE ROYAL ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
DETER MATERI
OPINION PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION ORIGIN NOUN
MINER AL
Size Shape Age Color
long-
four gorgeous red silk roses
stemmed
ONLINE PRACTICE:
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl_adjectiveorder4.html