Adjectives in English have a specific order that native speakers use unconsciously. Adjective order includes purpose, material, place, color, form, age, size, and opinion. Incorrectly ordered adjectives sound unnatural to native speakers. Adjectives are a part of speech that may or may not exist in a language, used in some way to alter the meaning […]
Adjectival clauses describe a noun or pronoun and are dependent clauses that cannot function as complete sentences. They use relative pronouns and serve an adjectival function, modifying the independent clause. Adjectival clauses are dependent clauses in a sentence that perform an adjectival function, meaning that they describe a noun or pronoun. These types of clauses […]
Personality adjectives describe a person’s character and can be positive or negative. They are important in job applications and interviews. Strong adjectives should be used whenever possible. Negative adjectives should be precise. Some adjectives describe characteristics rather than personality. Personality adjectives are words frequently used to describe the character of people, although they can describe […]
Demonstrative adjectives in English are this, that, these, and those. They designate a specific noun and establish distance from the speaker. This and these imply proximity, while that and those imply distance. Improper use of demonstrative pronouns can create confusion. In the English language there are four words that can be used as demonstrative determiners, […]
Adjectives describe nouns, and comparative adjectives compare two nouns in terms of appearance, size, quality, or measurement. Adding “er” to the end of the word creates most comparative adjectives, but some require “more” before the adjective. Superlative adjectives express the highest status of a comparative and usually compare three or more objects. Some adjectives cannot […]
