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What is an adjective?
Basic English grammar
What is an adjective?
Blue is an adjective.
Cold is an adjective.
Happy is an adjective.
An adjective is a describing word.
An adjective gives more information about something.
An adjective generally describes a noun.
A noun is a person, a thing or a place.
The monster
Monster is the name of a thing
monster is a noun
There is no description of the monster.
Describe the monster
How is the monster?
Green
Green is a color
Green is a description of the monster.
Green is an adjective
What is the position of the adjective?
Where do we put the adjectives?
Do we say the green monster or the monster green?
The correct order is
the Green Monster.
The order is adjective + noun
We say the Green Monster.
Green is an adjective.
Monster is a noun.
Green is a description of the monster.
Green is an adjective.
We do not say the monster green.
No. The adjective is before the noun
The green monster.
We can also use the verb TO BE + adjectives
For example
The monster is green.
IS is a form of the verb TO BE
The monster IS
After IS, we put the adjective... green.
The monster is green.
Another description of the monster
Is the monster happy?
No, the monster is sad.
Sad is an adjective.
We can say SAD MONSTER
adjective + noun
or
the monster is sad
to be + adjective
sad is an adjective.
another example
Describe this girl
Is the girl sad?
No, she is happy.
We can say... the happy girl
happy is an adjective
girl is a noun
we can also say... The girl is happy.
TO BE + the adjective happy
Adjectives in English have one form
For example
The adjective red
one red car
red is an adjective
It gives us more information about the car.
We describe the car.
The car is red.
When there is more than one car, for example two cars
the adjective RED does not change
We say two red cars
RED is used with one car and red is used for two cars
we do not say two REDS CARS
No, there is no S at the end of red.
Which word is an adjective?
The yellow bus.
The adjective is yellow.
The boy is dirty.
The adjective is dirty.
She is nervous.
The adjective is nervous.
The relaxed woman.
The adjective is relaxed.
The smelly shoe.
The adjective is smelly.
The man is cold.
The adjective is cold.
The fast horse.
The adjective is fast.
The doors are closed.
The adjective is closed
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