Adjectives

What is an adjective?
Adjectives are words that describe or modify other words. They can identify or quantify
another person or thing in the sentence. Adjectives are usually positioned before the
noun or the pronoun that they modify.
In the following examples, the highlighted words are adjectives:
1.

They live in a beautiful house.

2.

Lisa is wearing a sleeveless shirt today.

WHAT IS AN ADJECTIVE?"
Simply put adjectives are descriptive words. Adjectives are used to describe or give
information about things, ideas and people: nouns or pronouns.
For Example:The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".)
The most common question an adjective might answer is "What kind of ...?"
The good news is that in English the form of an adjective does not change, once you
have learnt it that's it and it does not matter if the noun being described is male or
female, singular or plural, subject or object. Yay!
Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun - age, size colour etc (fact
adjectives - can't be argued with).
Some adjectives show what somebody thinks about something or somebody - nice,
horrid, beautiful etc (opinion adjectives - not everyone may agree).

If you are asked questions with which, whose, what kind, or how many, you need an
adjective to be able to answer.

There are different types of adjectives in the English

language:

Numeric: six, one hundred and one etc.

Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough etc.

Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc.

Possessive: my, his, their, your etc.

Interrogative: which, whose, what etc.

Demonstrative: this, that, those, these etc.

!Note - The articles a, an, and the are a special kind of adjective called articles, and
the possessives my, our, your, and their are sometimes known as possessive
adjectives.

Colour
Adjectives can be used to describe colour.

blue, red, green, brown, yellow, black, white, etc.

For Example:

"The blue bag." or "The blue bags".

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Los adjetivos son aqullas palabras que se unen a un nombre para ampliar,
complementar y cuantificar su significado.
En ingls hay ocho clases de adjetivos:
1. Calificativos: good, bueno; thin, delgado; dry, seco; bad, malo; short, corto
2. Demostrativos: this, este; that, aquel; these, estos; those, aquellos
3. Distributivos: each, cada; every, todo; either, uno y otro; neither, ni uno ni otro.
4. De cantidad: some, algn; any, cualquier; little, poco; few, pocos; many,
muchos; much, mucho; enough, bastante
5. Interrogativos: which?, cual?; what?, qu?; whose?, de quin?, etc.
6. Posesivos: my, mi; your, tu, su, vuestro, his, su (de l); her, su (de ella); its, su
(de ello), our, nuestro; your, vuestro, their, suyo (de ellos/as)
7. Propios: French, francs; English, ingls; Spanish, espaol; etc.
8. Numerales: one, uno; ten, diez; first, primer, second, segundo; etc.
GENERALIDADES
- Los adjetivos en ingls son invariables en gnero y nmero.
yellow = amarillo, amarilla, amarillos, amarillas
- Normalmente se colocan delante del sustantivo:
I have a big book / Tengo un libro grande
- Verbo To be + (am/is/are/was, etc.) + adjetivo
These pictures are very beautiful / Esas imgenes son muy bonitas
- To be + adjetivo tiene en ocasiones la equivalencia a "Tener"
I'm hungry / Tengo hambre