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How to Create Adjective Clauses in English

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COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES 🤔| English grammar | Learn the rules with examples

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Como sabes, los adjetivos son palabras que acompañan a los sustantivos y designan sus cualidades. Por norma, en español el adjetivo suele ir justo detrás del nombre, pero en inglés las reglas cambian. ¿Quieres conocer el orden de los adjetivos en inglés y su importancia? ¡Sigue leyendo!

¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué en inglés decimos un big black dog y no un black big dog? Es porque en inglés tenemos un orden establecido para el uso de adjetivos para describir objetos.

El orden de los adjetivos en inglés

Ahora, esta es una descripción bastante detallada de una bolsa y generalmente no utilizaríamos tantas palabras seguidas para describir una cosa. Es una descripción larga, pero es una buena manera de demostrar el orden.

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Así que, ¿por qué es importante el orden de los adjetivos? Si tienes dos palabras en el orden incorrecto al describir un objeto, la gente de todas formas te entenderá. Aunque si sonaría extraño para un hablante nativo de inglés si tienes las palabras en el orden incorrecto. Por lo tanto, si deseas que tu inglés suene más fluido, será importante colocar los adjetivos en el orden correcto.

Aquí te damos un sencillo consejo para ayudarte a recordar cuál es el orden. En primer lugar, busca la imagen de un objeto que encuentres fácil de recordar. Esto funciona mejor si puedes elegir un objeto que sea importante para ti o que sea parte de tu vida, como tu vieja mochila.

Ahora, haz una lista de todos los adjetivos que podrías utilizar para describir ese objeto y colócalos en el orden mencionado anteriormente. Mira tu imagen y repite la descripción hasta que puedas hacerlo de memoria. Ahora, cuando necesites recordar el orden de los adjetivos, cierra los ojos y recuerda tu objeto importante y tendrás un ejemplo para ayudarte a recordar el orden de los adjetivos en inglés.

Tipos de adjetivos en inglés

Lista de adjetivos en inglés más comunes con su significado en español

A continuación, no te pierdas la lista que hemos preparado con los 100 adjetivos en inglés que deberías conocer para tener una base sólida de vocabulario.
Adjetivo en inglés Adjetivo en español
Acid

Ácido

Angry

Enfadado

Asleep

Dormido

Awake

Despierto

Bad

Malo

Beautiful

Precioso

Bitter

Agrio

Bright

Brillante

Cheap

Barato

Clean

Limpio

Clear

Claro

Cold

Frío

Cool

Fresco

Cruel

Cruel

Deep

Profundo

Delicate

Delicado

Different

Diferente

Dirty

Sucio

Dry

Seco

Early

Temprano

Exhausted

Agotado

False

Falso

Far

Lejos

Fat

Gordo

Feeble

Débil

Flat

Llano

Foolish

Tonto, estúpido

Free

Libre

Full

Lleno

Generous

Generoso

Good

Bueno

Great

Estupendo

Handsome

Atractivo

Happy

Feliz

Hard

Duro

Healthy

Saludable

Heavy

Pesado

High

Alto

Hollow

Hueco

Hot

Caliente

Huge

Enorme

Hungry

Hambriento

Ill

Enfermo

Left

Izquierda

Light

Ligero

Long

Largo

Loud

Ruidoso

Lovely

Bonito

Mean

Tacaño

Messy

Desordenado

Natural

Natural

Narrow

Estrecho

Near

Cerca

Necessary

Necesario

New

Nuevo

Old

Viejo

Open

Abierto

Opposite

Contrario

Parallel

Paralelo

Poor

Pobre

Private

Privado

Quick

Rápido

Quiet

Tranquilo

Ready

Preparado

Rich

Rico

Right

Derecha, correcto

Rough

Áspero

Sad

Triste

Safe

Seguro

Serious

Serio

Sharp

Afilado

Short

Corto

Shut

Cerrado

Simple

Simple

Smooth

Fino, delicado

Soft

Suave

Solid

Sólido

Special

Especial

Spicy

Picante

Steep

Empinado

Sticky

Pegajoso

Straight

Recto, directo

Strange

Extraño

Strong

Fuerte

Sudden

Repentino

Sweet

Dulce

Thick

Grueso

Thin

Delgado

Tight

Ajustado, ceñido

Tired

Cansado

True

Verdadero

Ugly

Feo

Violent

Violento

Warm

Caluroso, caliente

Weak

Débil

Wet

Húmedo

Wide

Ancho

Wise

Sabio

Wrong

Erróneo

Young

Jóven

Seguro que conoces muchos más adjetivos en inglés, te animamos a que los añadas en la sección de comentarios a continuación.
Artículo relacionado: Cómo describir a la familia en inglés

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What is an adjective?

Adjectives are words that describe or modify other words, making your writing and speaking much more specific, and a whole lot more interesting. Words like small, blue, and sharp are descriptive, and they are all examples of adjectives. Because adjectives are used to identify or quantify individual people and unique things, they are usually positioned before the noun or pronoun that they modify. Some sentences contain multiple adjectives.

In the following examples, the highlighted words are adjectives:

1. They live in a big, beautiful

2. Since it's a hot day, Lisa is wearing a sleeveless

3. The mountaintops are covered in sparkling

4. On her birthday, Brenda received an antique vase filled with fragrant

Types of Adjectives

Remember that adjectives can modify as well as describe other words, and you'll find it much easier to identify different types of adjectives when you see them.

Articles

There are only three articles, and all of them are adjectives: a, an, and the. Because they are used to discuss non-specific things and people, a and an are called indefinite articles. For example: Neither one of these sentences names a specific banana or a certain adventure. Without more clarification, any banana or adventure will do. The word the is called the definite article. It's the only definite article, and it is used to indicate very specific people or things:

Please give me a banana. I'd like the one with the green stem.

Let's go on an adventure. The Grand Canyon mule ride sounds perfect!

Possessive Adjectives

As the name indicates, possessive adjectives are used to indicate possession. They are: Possessive adjectives also function as possessive pronouns.

Demonstrative Adjectives

Like the article the, demonstrative adjectives are used to indicate or demonstrate specific people, animals, or things. These, those, this and that are demonstrative adjectives.

These books belong on that

This movie is my favorite.

Please put those cookies on the blue plate.

Coordinate Adjectives

Coordinate adjectives are separated with commas or the word and, and appear one after another to modify the same noun. The adjectives in the phrase bright, sunny day and long and dark night are coordinate adjectives. In phrases with more than two coordinate adjectives, the word and always appears before the last one; for example: The sign had big, bold, and bright letters. Be careful, because some adjectives that appear in a series are not coordinate. In the phrase green delivery truck, the words green and delivery are not separated by a comma because green modifies the phrase delivery truck. To eliminate confusion when determining whether a pair or group of adjectives is coordinate, just insert the word and between them. If and works, then the adjectives are coordinate and need to be separated with a comma.

Numbers Adjectives

When they're used in sentences, numbers are almost always adjectives. You can tell that a number is an adjective when it answers the question "How many?"

The stagecoach was pulled by a team of six

He ate 23 hotdogs during the contest, and was sick afterwards.

Interrogative Adjectives

There are three interrogative adjectives: which, what, and whose. Like all other types of adjectives, interrogative adjectives modify nouns. As you probably know, all three of these words are used to ask questions.

Which option sounds best to you?

What time should we go?

Whose socks are those?

Indefinite Adjectives

Like the articles a and an, indefinite adjectives are used to discuss non-specific things. You might recognize them, since they're formed from indefinite pronouns. The most common indefinite adjectives are any, many, no, several, and few.

Do we have any peanut butter?

Grandfather has been retired for many

There are no bananas in the fruit bowl.

I usually read the first few pages of a book before I buy it.

We looked at several cars before deciding on the best one for our family.

Attributive Adjectives

Attributive adjectives talk about specific traits, qualities, or features - in other words, they are used to discuss attributes. There are different kinds of attributive adjectives:

Observation adjectives such as real, perfect, best, interesting, beautiful or cheapest can indicate value or talk about subjective measures.

Size and shape adjectives talk about measurable, objective qualities including specific physical properties. Some examples include small, large, square, round, poor, wealthy, slow and

Age adjectives denote specific ages in numbers, as well as general ages. Examples are old, young, new, five-year-old, and

Color adjectives are exactly what they sound like - they're adjectives that indicate color. Examples include pink, yellow, blue, and

Origin adjectives indicate the source of the noun, whether it's a person, place, animal or thing. Examples include American, Canadian, Mexican, French.

Material adjectives denote what something is made of. Some examples include cotton, gold, wool, and

Qualifier adjectives are often regarded as part of a noun. They make nouns more specific; examples include log cabin, luxury car, and pillow cover.

Find the adjective or adjectives that fit in each of the blanks best. Answer Key:

1. A - We visited the museum, where we saw ancient artifacts.

2. B - I received two awards at the ceremony today.

3. B - Please get me a bag of ripe red apples.

4. D - The president sat in a leather chair.

5. C - Foggy weather is the norm in San Francisco.

Are you ready to keep learning how to use adjectives? Visit the adjective exercises page for more practice.

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adjective

Adjectives are used almost exclusively to modify nouns, as well as any phrase or part of speech functioning as a noun.

There is a huge variety of adjectives in English. While many words are inherently adjectival, such as colors ( red, black, yellow, etc.) or characteristics ( strong, weak, nice, etc.), there are also several categories of adjectives that are formed from other sources.

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ad·jec·tive
(ăj′ĭk-tĭv)

1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.

2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.

adj.

2. Law Specifying the processes by which rights are enforced, as opposed to the establishing of such rights; remedial: adjective law.

3. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent.

[Middle English, from Old French adjectif, from Late Latin adiectīvus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]

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adjective
(ˈædʒɪktɪv)
adj

1. additional or dependent

2. (Law) (of law) relating to court practice and procedure, as opposed to the principles of law dealt with by the courts. Compare substantive ⁷

[C14: from Late Latin adjectīvus attributive, from adjicere to throw to, add, from ad- to + jacere to throw; in grammatical sense, from the Latin phrase nōmen adjectīvum attributive noun]

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ad*jec*tive
(ˈædʒ ɪk tɪv)

n.

1. a member of a class of words functioning as modifiers of nouns, typically by describing, delimiting, or specifying quantity, as nice in a nice day, other in other people, or all in all dogs, and in many languages distinguished by formal characteristics, as often in English by the ability to be used in comparative and superlative forms. Abbr.: adj.

adj.

2. of, pertaining to, or functioning as an adjective; adjectival: an adjective phrase.

3. not able to stand alone; dependent.

4. Law. pertaining to rules of procedure, rather than those of right (opposed to substantive).

5. (of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed to substantive).

[1350-1400; Middle English < Late Latin adjectīvum, neuter of adjectīvus= Latin adject(us), past participle of ad(j)icere to attach, add ( ad- ad- + -(j)icere, comb. form of jacere to throw) + -īvus -ive]

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adjective

A word that modifies or describes a noun, for example, green" or "happy."

Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited

Noun 1.
adjective - a word that expresses an attribute of something

adjective - the word class that qualifies nouns

positive, positive degree - the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

comparative, comparative degree - the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; "`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'"; "`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'"

superlative degree, superlative - the superlative form of an adjective or adverb; "`fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast'"; "`least famous' is the superlative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`most surely' is the superlative of the adverb `surely'"

2.
adjective - the word class that qualifies nouns

adjective - a word that expresses an attribute of something

Adj. 1.
adjective - of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; "adjectival syntax"; "an adjective clause"

2.
adjective - relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law"

law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

substantive, essential - defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; "substantive law"

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adjective
(ˈӕdʒiktiv) noun ˌadjecˈtival (-ˈtai-) adjective

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In linguistics, an adjective ( abbreviated adj) is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.

Traditionally, adjectives were considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. Nowadays, certain words that usually had been classified as adjectives, including the, this, my, etc., typically are classed separately, as determiners.

Adjective comes from Latin nōmen adjectīvum, a calque of Ancient Greek: ἐπίθετον ὄνομα, epítheton ónoma, 'additional noun'. In the grammatical tradition of Latin and Greek, because adjectives were inflected for gender, number, and case like nouns (a process called declension), they were considered a type of noun. The words that are today typically called nouns were then called substantive nouns ( nōmen substantīvum). The terms noun substantive and noun adjective were formerly used in English but are now obsolete.

Types of use

Depending on the language, an adjective can precede a corresponding noun on a prepositive basis or it can follow a corresponding noun on a postpositive basis. Structural, contextual, and style considerations can impinge on the pre-or post-position of an adjective in a given instance of its occurrence. In English, occurrences of adjectives generally can be classified into one of three categories:

1. Prepositive adjectives, which are also known as "attributive adjectives", occur on an antecedent basis within a noun phrase. For example: "I put my happy kids into the car", wherein happy occurs on an antecedent basis within the my happy kids noun phrase, and therefore functions in a prepositive adjective.

2. Postpositive adjectives can occur: (a) immediately subsequent to a noun within a noun phrase, e.g. "I took a short drive around with my happy kids"; (b) as linked via a copula or other linking mechanism subsequent to a corresponding noun or pronoun; for example: "My kids are happy", wherein happy is a predicate adjective (see also: Predicative expression, Subject complement); or (c) as an appositive adjective within a noun phrase, e.g. "My kids, [who are] happy to go cruising, are in the back seat."

3. Nominalized adjectives, which function as nouns. One way this happens is by eliding a noun from an adjective-noun noun phrase, whose remnant thus is a nominalization. In the sentence, "I read two books to them; he preferred the sad book, but she preferred the happy", happy is a nominalized adjective, short for "happy one" or "happy book". Another way this happens is in phrases like "out with the old, in with the new", where "the old" means "that which is old" or "all that is old", and similarly with "the new". In such cases, the adjective may function as a mass noun (as in the preceding example). In English, it may also function as a plural count noun denoting a collective group, as in "The meek shall inherit the Earth", where "the meek" means "those who are meek" or "all who are meek".

Adjectives feature as a part of speech (word class) in most languages. In some languages, the words that serve the semantic function of adjectives are categorized together with some other class, such as nouns or verbs. In the phrase "a Ford car", "Ford" is unquestionably a noun but its function is adjectival: to modify "car". In some languages adjectives can function as nouns: for example, the Spanish phrase " uno rojo" means "a red [one]".

As for "confusion" with verbs, rather than an adjective meaning "big", a language might have a verb that means "to be big" and could then use an attributive verb construction analogous to "big-being house" to express what in English is called a "big house". Such an analysis is possible for the grammar of Standard Chinese, for example.

Different languages do not use adjectives in exactly the same situations. For example, where English uses "to be hungry" ( hungry being an adjective), Dutch, French, and Spanish use " honger hebben", " avoir faim", and " tener hambre" respectively (literally "to have hunger", the words for "hunger" being nouns). Similarly, where Hebrew uses the adjective זקוק‎ ( zaqūq, roughly "in need of"), English uses the verb "to need".

In languages that have adjectives as a word class, it is usually an open class; that is, it is relatively common for new adjectives to be formed via such processes as derivation. However, Bantu languages are well known for having only a small closed class of adjectives, and new adjectives are not easily derived. Similarly, native Japanese adjectives ( i-adjectives) are considered a closed class (as are native verbs), although nouns (an open class) may be used in the genitive to convey some adjectival meanings, and there is also the separate open class of adjectival nouns ( na-adjectives).

Many languages (including English) distinguish between adjectives, which qualify nouns and pronouns, and adverbs, which mainly modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Not all languages make this exact distinction; many (including English) have words that can function as either. For example, in English, fast is an adjective in "a fast car" (where it qualifies the noun car) but an adverb in "he drove fast" (where it modifies the verb drove).

In Dutch and German, adjectives and adverbs are usually identical in form and many grammarians do not make the distinction, but patterns of inflection can suggest a difference:

A German word like klug ("clever(ly)") takes endings when used as an attributive adjective but not when used adverbially. (It also takes no endings when used as a predicative adjective: er ist klug, "he is clever".) Whether these are distinct parts of speech or distinct usages of the same part of speech is a question of analysis. It can be noted that, while German linguistic terminology distinguishes adverbiale from adjektivische Formen, German refers to both as Eigenschaftswörter ("property words").

Linguists today distinguish determiners from adjectives, considering them to be two separate parts of speech (or lexical categories). But formerly determiners were considered to be adjectives in some of their uses. Determiners are words that are neither nouns nor pronouns, yet reference a thing already in context. They generally do this by indicating definiteness ( a vs. the), quantity ( one vs. some vs. many), or another such property.

An adjective acts as the head of an adjective phrase or adjectival phrase (AP). In the simplest case, an adjective phrase consists solely of the adjective; more complex adjective phrases may contain one or more adverbs modifying the adjective (" very strong"), or one or more complements (such as "worth several dollars", "full of toys", or "eager to please"). In English, attributive adjective phrases that include complements typically follow the noun that they qualify ("an evildoer devoid of redeeming qualities").

In many languages (including English) it is possible for nouns to modify other nouns. Unlike adjectives, nouns acting as modifiers (called attributive nouns or noun adjuncts) usually are not predicative; a beautiful park is beautiful, but a car park is not "car". The modifier often indicates origin (" Virginia reel"), purpose (" work clothes"), semantic patient (" man eater") or semantic subject (" child actor"); however, it may generally indicate almost any semantic relationship. It is also common for adjectives to be derived from nouns, as in boyish, birdlike, behavioral (behavioural), famous, manly, angelic, and so on.

In Australian Aboriginal languages, the distinction between adjectives and nouns is typically thought weak, and many of the languages only use nouns--or nouns with a limited set of adjective-deriving affixes--to modify other nouns. In languages that have a subtle adjective-noun distinction, one way to tell them apart is that a modifying adjective can come to stand in for an entire elided noun phrase, while a modifying noun cannot. For example, in Bardi, the adjective moorrooloo 'little' in the phrase moorrooloo baawa 'little child' can stand on its own to mean 'the little one,' while the attributive noun aamba 'man' in the phrase aamba baawa 'male child' cannot stand for the whole phrase to mean 'the male one.' In other languages, like Warlpiri, nouns and adjectives are lumped together beneath the nominal umbrella because of their shared syntactic distribution as arguments of predicates. The only thing distinguishing them is that some nominals seem to semantically denote entities (typically nouns in English) and some nominals seem to denote attributes (typically adjectives in English).

Many languages have special verbal forms called participles that can act as noun modifiers (alone or as the head of a phrase). Sometimes participles develop into pure adjectives. Examples in English include relieved (the past participle of the verb relieve, used as an adjective in sentences such as "I am so relieved to see you"), spoken (as in "the spoken word"), and going (the present participle of the verb go, used as an adjective in such phrases as "the going rate").

Other constructs that often modify nouns include prepositional phrases (as in "a rebel without a cause"), relative clauses (as in "the man who wasn't there"), and infinitive phrases (as in "a cake to die for"). Some nouns can also take complements such as content clauses (as in "the idea that I would do that"), but these are not commonly considered modifiers. For more information about possible modifiers and dependents of nouns, see Components of noun phrases.

In many languages, attributive adjectives usually occur in a specific order. In general, the adjective order in English can be summarised as: opinion, size, age or shape, colour, origin, material, purpose. Other language authorities, like the Cambridge Dictionary, state that shape precedes rather than follows age.

Determiners-articles, numerals, and other limiters (e.g. three blind mice)-come before attributive adjectives in English. Although certain combinations of determiners can appear before a noun, they are far more circumscribed than adjectives in their use-typically, only a single determiner would appear before a noun or noun phrase (including any attributive adjectives).

1. Quantity - adjectives of number (e.g. two, ten)

2. Opinion - limiter adjectives (e.g. a real hero, a perfect idiot) and adjectives of subjective measure (e.g. beautiful, interesting) or value (e.g. good, bad, costly)

3. Age - adjectives denoting age (e.g. young, old, new, ancient, six-year-old)

4. Humidity - adjectives denoting humidity (e.g. dry, wet)

5. Pattern - adjectives denoting pattern of colour (e.g. spotted, crackled)

6. Qualifier/purpose - final limiter, which sometimes forms part of the (compound) noun (e.g., rocking chair, hunting cabin, passenger car, book cover)

This means that, in English, adjectives pertaining to size precede adjectives pertaining to age ("little old", not "old little"), which in turn generally precede adjectives pertaining to colour ("old white", not "white old"). So, one would say "One (quantity) nice (opinion) little (size) old (age) round (shape) [ or round old] white (colour) brick (material) house." When several adjectives of the same type are used together, they are ordered from general to specific, like "lovely intelligent person" or "old medieval castle".

This order may be more rigid in some languages than others; in some, like Spanish, it may only be a default () word order, with other orders being permissible. Other languages, such as Tagalog, follow their adjectival orders as rigidly as English.

The normal adjectival order of English may be overridden in certain circumstances, especially when one adjective is being fronted. For example, the usual order of adjectives in English would result in the phrase "the bad big wolf" (opinion before size), but instead, the usual phrase is "the big bad wolf".

Owing partially to borrowings from French, English has some adjectives that follow the noun as postmodifiers, called postpositive adjectives, as in time immemorial and attorney general. Adjectives may even change meaning depending on whether they precede or follow, as in proper: They live in a proper town (a real town, not a village) vs. They live in the town proper (in the town itself, not in the suburbs). All adjectives can follow nouns in certain constructions, such as tell me something new.

Comparison (degrees)

In many languages, some adjectives are comparable and the measure of comparison is called degree. For example, a person may be "polite", but another person may be " more polite", and a third person may be the " most polite" of the three. The word "more" here modifies the adjective "polite" to indicate a comparison is being made, and "most" modifies the adjective to indicate an absolute comparison (a superlative).

Among languages that allow adjectives to be compared, different means are used to indicate comparison. Some languages do not distinguish between comparative and superlative forms. Other languages allow adjectives to be compared but do not have a special comparative form of the adjective. In such cases, as in some Australian Aboriginal languages, case-marking, such as the ablative case may be used to indicate one entity has more of an adjectival quality than (i.e. from-hence ABL) another. Take the following example in Bardi:

Jalnggoon oysters are bigger than niwarda oysters

In English, many adjectives can be inflected to comparative and superlative forms by taking the suffixes "-er" and "-est" (sometimes requiring additional letters before the suffix; see forms for far below), respectively:

"great", "greater", "greatest"

"deep", "deeper", "deepest"

Some adjectives are irregular in this sense:

"good", "better", "best"

"bad", "worse", "worst"

"many", "more", "most" (sometimes regarded as an adverb or determiner)

"little", "less", "least"

Some adjectives can have both regular and irregular variations:

"old", "older", "oldest"

"far", "farther", "farthest"

also

"old", "elder", "eldest"

"far", "further", "furthest"

Another way to convey comparison is by incorporating the words "more" and "most". There is no simple rule to decide which means is correct for any given adjective, however. The general tendency is for simpler adjectives and those from Anglo-Saxon to take the suffixes, while longer adjectives and those from French, Latin, or Greek do not-but sometimes sound of the word is the deciding factor.

Many adjectives do not naturally lend themselves to comparison. For example, some English speakers would argue that it does not make sense to say that one thing is "more ultimate" than another, or that something is "most ultimate", since the word "ultimate" is already absolute in its semantics. Such adjectives are called non-comparable or absolute. Nevertheless, native speakers will frequently play with the raised forms of adjectives of this sort. Although "pregnant" is logically non-comparable (either one is pregnant or not), one may hear a sentence like "She looks more and more pregnant each day". Likewise "extinct" and "equal" appear to be non-comparable, but one might say that a language about which nothing is known is "more extinct" than a well-documented language with surviving literature but no speakers, while George Orwell wrote, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". These cases may be viewed as evidence that the base forms of these adjectives are not as absolute in their semantics as is usually thought.

Comparative and superlative forms are also occasionally used for other purposes than comparison. In English comparatives can be used to suggest that a statement is only tentative or tendential: one might say "John is more the shy-and-retiring type," where the comparative "more" is not really comparing him with other people or with other impressions of him, but rather, could be substituting for "on the whole" or "more so than not". In Italian, superlatives are frequently used to put strong emphasis on an adjective: bellissimo means "most beautiful", but is in fact more commonly heard in the sense "extremely beautiful".

Attributive adjectives and other noun modifiers may be used either restrictively (helping to identify the noun's referent, hence "restricting" its reference) or non-restrictively (helping to describe a noun). For example:

He was a lazy sort, who would avoid a difficult task and fill his working hours with easy ones.

Here "difficult" is restrictive - it tells which tasks he avoids, distinguishing these from the easy ones: "Only those tasks that are difficult".

She had the job of sorting out the mess left by her predecessor, and she performed this difficult task with great acumen.

Here "difficult" is non-restrictive - it is already known which task it was, but the adjective describes it more fully: "The aforementioned task, which (by the way) is difficult"

In some languages, such as Spanish, restrictiveness is consistently marked; for example, in Spanish la tarea difícil means "the difficult task" in the sense of "the task that is difficult" (restrictive), whereas la difícil tarea means "the difficult task" in the sense of "the task, which is difficult" (non-restrictive). In English, restrictiveness is not marked on adjectives but is marked on relative clauses (the difference between "the man who recognized me was there" and "the man, who recognized me, was there" being one of restrictiveness).

In some languages, adjectives alter their form to reflect the gender, case and number of the noun that they describe. This is called agreement or concord. Usually it takes the form of inflections at the end of the word, as in Latin:

In Celtic languages, however, initial consonant lenition marks the adjective with a feminine singular noun, as in Irish:

Often, distinction is made here between attributive and predicative usage. In English, adjectives never agree, whereas in French, they always agree. In German, they agree only when they are used attributively, and in Hungarian, they agree only when they are used predicatively:

References

Dixon, R.M.W. (1977). "Where have all the adjectives gone?". Studies in Language. 1: 19-80. doi:10.1075/sl.1.1.04dix.

Dixon, R.M.W.; R. E. Asher (Editor) (1993). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (1st ed.). Pergamon Press Inc. pp. 29-35. ISBN 0-08-035943-4.

Dixon, R.M.W. (1999). Adjectives. In K. Brown & T. Miller (Eds.), Concise encyclopedia of grammatical categories (pp. 1-8). Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 0-08-043164-X.

Rießler, Michael (2016). Adjective attribution. Language Science Press.

Warren, Beatrice. (1984). Classifying adjectives. Gothenburg studies in English (No. 56). Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. ISBN 91-7346-133-4.

Wierzbicka, Anna (1986). "What's in a noun? (or: How do nouns differ in meaning from adjectives?)". Studies in Language. 10 (2): 353-389. doi:10.1075/sl.10.2.05wie.

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In linguistics, an adjective ( abbreviated adj) is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives were considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns.

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Adjectives describe or modify-that is, they limit or restrict the meaning of-nouns and pronouns. They may name qualities of all kinds: huge, red, angry, tremendous, unique, rare, etc.

An adjective usually comes right before a noun: "a red dress," " fifteen people." When an adjective follows a linking verb such as be or seem, it is called a adjective: "That building is huge," "The workers seem happy." Most adjectives can be used as predicate adjectives, although some are always used before a noun. Similarly, a few adjectives can only be used as predicate adjectives and are never used before a noun.

Some adjectives describe qualities that can exist in different amounts or degrees. To do this, the adjective will either change in form (usually by adding -er or -est) or will be used with words like more, most, very, slightly, etc.: "the older girls," "the longest day of the year," "a very strong feeling," " more expensive than that one." Other adjectives describe qualities that do not vary-" nuclear energy," "a medical doctor"-and do not change form.

The four demonstrative adjectives- this, that, these, and those-are identical to the demonstrative . They are used to distinguish the person or thing being described from others of the same category or class. This and these describe people or things that are nearby, or in the present. That and those are used to describe people or things that are not here, not nearby, or in the past or future. These adjectives, like the definite and indefinite articles ( a, an, and the), always come before any other adjectives that modify a noun.

An indefinite adjective describes a whole group or class of people or things, or a person or thing that is not identified or familiar. The most common indefinite adjectives are: all, another, any, both, each, either, enough, every, few, half, least, less, little, many, more, most, much, neither, one (and two, three, etc.), other, several, some, such, whole.

The interrogative adjectives-primarily which, what, and whose-are used to begin questions. They can also be used as interrogative .

Which horse did you bet on? = Which did you bet on?

What songs did they sing? = What did they sing?

Whose coat is this? = Whose is this?

The possessive adjectives- my, your, his, her, its, our, their-tell you who has, owns, or has experienced something, as in "I admired her candor, " Our cat is 14 years old," and "They said their trip was wonderful."

Nouns often function like adjectives. When they do, they are called attributive nouns.

When two or more adjectives are used before a noun, they should be put in proper order. Any article ( a, an, the), demonstrative adjective ( that, these, etc.), indefinite adjective ( another, both, etc.), or possessive adjective ( her, our, etc.) always comes first. If there is a number, it comes first or second. True adjectives always come before attributive nouns. The ordering of true adjectives will vary, but the following order is the most common:

Participles are often used like ordinary adjectives. They may come before a noun or after a linking verb. A present participle (an -ing word) describes the person or thing that causes something; for example, a boring conversation is one that bores you. A past participle (usually an -ed word) describes the person or thing who has been affected by something; for example, a bored person is one who has been affected by boredom.

They had just watched an exciting soccer game.

The instructions were confusing.

She's excited about the trip to North Africa.

Several confused students were asking questions about the test.

The lake was frozen.

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