📄️ Adjectives
Adjectives are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs and adverbs. Examples of adjectives are
📄️ Adjectives: forms
Unlike in many other languages, adjectives in English do not change (agree) with the noun that they modify:
📄️ Adjectives: order
Order of adjectives
📄️ Adjective phrases
An adjective phrase always has an adjective acting as the head. The adjective phrase may also contain words or phrases before or after the head (modifiers and complements):
📄️ Adjective phrases: position
When an adjective is used with a noun, the usual order in English is adjective + noun:
📄️ Adjective phrases: functions
Adjective phrases with nouns
📄️ Adjectives and adjective phrases: typical errors
We use -ing adjectives to describe an effect and \-ed adjectives to describe how a person feels:
📄️ Comparison: adjectives (bigger, biggest, more interesting)
Comparative and superlative adjectives