hello how are you this is Marc, in
English there are lots of grammar rules
just like in any other language however
there are a myriad of exceptions and
points that teachers don't usually explain
during a normal lesson in this series
I'm going to talk about those exceptions
and points that you aren't aware they
even exist so let's begin with what you
don't know about ...adjectives shall we ?
right so what you don't know about
adjectives few things though you should
know they modify nouns and they don't
change gender case or number you can
watch a lesson especially on adjectives
if you click here now they can be used
as complements after linking verbs what
are linking verbs ? there is a special
lesson on that too, you can click here to
watch that lesson but they are verbs
such as be, feel, become etc. If you put
this verb after a pronoun like for
example I feel sad and then we have the
adjective sad, you can replace this verb
this linking verb with the word equals
so for example, I equals sad or she
became angry, she equals angry so this
can give you an idea of what a linking
verb is with an adjective so the
adjectives there is a complement
so the other point that I want
to talk about with the linking verbs is
as few adjectives follow prepositions
like to or of when used with linking
verbs for example, he was the
linking verb here is to be - allergic to
allergic to pollen he was allergic to
pollen
so the adjective allergic is followed by
the preposition "to" the second example
that I listed here, her face was filled
with horror so filled with horror the
adjective
right there is filled and then the
preposition with, and that I listed here
to or of but there also with or other
prepositions as we will see then there
is another example they are capable of
winning the contest, capable of
now when adjectives like for example
different, different can have three
choices the first one is the one used in
the United States in American English so
different than in British English they
prefer to use or from or to so I listed
three examples they are different from
each other this is British English in
American English you can say they look
different than their parents this
American English and then the other
example which is British English he
feels no different to you now there is
another point that I want to talk about
using linking verbs and that is when
adjectives refer to somebody's feelings
or beliefs and are used with linking
verbs like I said before they are
often used with a that-clause so I got
two examples here, he was certain that
she was wrong, so certain is the
adjective and then the that-clause that
she was wrong that she was wrong, or she
felt so sure that she had been there
before so that she had been there before
is the that-clause and then sure is the
adjective, I'm going to erase this and
I'm going to show you other points that
you don't know about adjectives yes
we're going to talk about five points
and exceptions about adjectives as I
said adjectives go before nouns but not
always
because we have noun plus adjectives just
like my examples he is six feet tall six
feet tall, tall here is the adjective
feet is the noun and 25 years old years
is the noun old is the adjective another
example like it or not Trump is now the
president elect president is the noun
and elect is the adjectives so don't
take things for granted and think about
when you write something there are a lot
of exceptions in English so the second
exception or point that I want to talk
about is about comparative and
superlative adjectives now you know the
usual one syllable adjectives take ER or
EST like tall so we say taller than the
tallest ok, and so on one syllable or big
bigger we add another G because
it's consonant vowel consonant, so we
need to add another consonant in this
case is G so bigger than and the biggest
but the second syllable adjectives are a
little bit tricky so the second syllable
adjectives ending with y so happy we add
the we take out the Y and we add the I
so happier the happiest we have also
cosy and etc we have many now the two
syllable adjectives some take ER or EST
like gentle narrow friendly etc, and others
take more or the most like pleasant we
say more pleasant than the most pleasant
or thoughtful, more thoughtful than and
the most thoughtful or cheerful etc now
there is another thing that I want to
tell you about this which is the
adjective now the adjective fun is not
an adjective is informally used as an
adjective but it's a noun so we say more
fun not funner than
just recently has been introduced as an
adjective but it is actually born as a
noun fun, now the third point that I want
to talk about is participial adjectives
they're related to present participles
so we add the -ing so they refer to a
person or object causing the adjective
let's take a look at the examples he was
amusing at the party, here amusing is an
adjective
okay and so we can ask ourselves how
was he at the party ? he was amusing so
he provided enjoyment, another example a
charming fellow
approached her, what kind of fellow was
he ? we can ask ourselves so he was
charming
so charming here is an effect that
somebody has on people in this case
right charming so is the adjective now
we have the ED adjectives they have
the same form as past participles which
could be regular or irregular and you
know that, they refer to the person or
object experiencing the adjective so the
example that I listed here is I looked
at him and saw a discouraged man, so how
was this man ? how did he feel ? he felt
discouraged, another example after the
accident she had a broken bone, how was
the bone? it was broken the last point
that I want to talk about is compound
adjectives
and compound adjectives are for example
noun plus adjective or noun plus noun etc
I gave you two examples like light-hearted
or well-off these are adjectives that
are called compound adjectives because
they are put together if you want to
watch a lesson on this you can click
here now these adjectives these compound
adjectives can be borrowed from other
languages so just like a la mode from
French right or de facto from Latin or
ad hoc from Latin or avant-garde from
French so there are a lot of them ok so
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