Hello students welcome back to the English Danny Channel. I am teacher
Sarah and today we're going to learn how to use adjectives in English speaking
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Let's begin what is an adjective an adjective is a word that is used to
describe or tell more about nouns and pronouns adjectives help us to express
our ideas and opinions with greater complexity let's consider two examples
here is a sentence without an adjective I live in a house now let's try adding
some adjectives to give us more information about our noun house here is
the same sentence with one adjective I live in a small house and with two
adjectives I live in a small old house and finally with three adjectives I live
in a small old blue house let's look at one more example here is another
sentence without adjectives I like movies okay now I know you like movies
but we can be more specific by adding just a few adjectives with one adjective
I like new movies with two adjectives I like new exciting movies and with three
adjectives I like new exciting action movies you could even add more adding
adjectives helps the person you are talking to better understand you and
what you are talking about adjectives can be split into many categories like
shape words like square round and circular color words like red orange and
yellow and H words like old and today let's look deeper at three
categories of adjectives size quantity and quality there are many many
adjectives that can be used in each of these categories the ones we will learn
today are some of the most come first let's talk about size size is one of the
most commonly used types of adjectives these adjectives are mainly useful for
describing physical things two of the most well known size adjectives are big
and small but there are many many ways to express just how big or how small
something is let's take a look at this chart that shows size adjectives in
order from small to big on the Left we see a word for something very very small
miniature often in English we shortened this word to mini for example the boy
looks like a miniature version of his father or the boy looks like a mini
version of his father next is the word tiny something tiny is very small in a
sentence we can use the adjective tiny like this look at those tiny ants or did
you see the tiny puppy over there the word tiny implies that something is
smaller than usual or expected after tiny we see the word small which can be
used in any situation in which you want to express that something is less than a
normal size for example she's a small girl or my phone is so small there are
also adjectives we can use to express that something is neither bigger nor
smaller than expected but is a normal size the adjectives in the middle of the
chart can be used interchangeably normal sized average-sized and medium-sized
we'd use these terms in a sentence like this I want to buy a normal
table not too small or too big I have an average-sized apartment
it's a medium-sized car on the right side of the table we first have the
words big and large these two words are very common and can be used to express
that something is greater than a normal size for example this is a big classroom
or that's a large tree after big enlarge we have the word huge this adjective is
used to describe something very big or bigger than expected
for example that building is huge or this is a huge meal even bigger than
huge are the adjectives gigantic and enormous these adjectives are used for
things that are extremely big here are a few ways we can use these words Tokyo is
a gigantic city China has an enormous population next let's take a look at
quantity adjectives these adjectives tell us how much of something there is
it is important to note that the quantity adjectives we use depends on
the nap if it is a noun or person place or thing that can be counted in numbers
it is called a countable now these are words like car house and Frank these are
all things we can count for instance I can count five cars four houses
ten friends and so on if it is a noun that cannot be counted it is called an
uncountable noun these are words like stress and rain I cannot count rain or
stress I cannot say there are ten rains or I
have thirty five stresses therefore these words are uncountable nouns let's
take a look at the following chart of quantity adjectives blue words should
only be you with uncountable nouns red words should
only be used with countable nouns and black words can be used with any noun as
you'll see in the top right corner of the charts first we see the adjective
phrase a little just like the word little means small a little means there
is a small amount of something a little can be used with uncountable nouns for
example I'm a little stressed and I have a little water in my shoes next we see
the terms few and a few it is important to note that few and a few can only be
used with countable nouns a few implies that there is not much of something for
example there are few cars on the road today and we only have a few carrots in
the middle is the adjective some this is an adjective that implies that there is
a medium or average amount of something some can also be used with any type of
noun here are some examples will you get some snacks from the store let's listen
to some music while we study many is the next adjective and like few and a few
many can only be used with countable nouns remember countable nouns are
things you can count with numbers let's look at a few examples I don't have many
books at home she has many classes this semester the final quantity adjectives
we'll talk about today is a lot of or lots of these terms can be used with any
type of noun and in many different ways let's consider three examples she has a
lot of shoes there are lots of restaurants near my house there's a lot
of snow on the sidewalk last in today's lesson our adjectives that describe the
quality of something quality means how or bad something is these adjectives are
extremely useful and are used to describe opinions physical things
emotions and more let's take a look at our third chart for some of the most
common quality adjectives on the Left we see adjectives used to describe things
that are bad or that we dislike let's begin with the adjectives terrible and
horrible these words are used to talk about things that are really really bad
let's see the words in a sentence that was a terrible movie I had a horrible
flight awful is another word used to describe things that are really bad for
instance I have an awful headache that song it's awful bad can be used in any
situation if you want to express disliked or low-quality
bad can be used anytime without sounding as serious as words like awful and
horrible for instance I had a bad day this is not as serious as I had a
horrible day but still means it was not good in the middle of the chart we see
the neutral adjectives okay fine and decent these words mean that something
is not good in not bad just in the middle let's see it in context the pizza
was okay the class was fine he's a decent singer next on the right we see
words to describe things that are better than okay good great wonderful and
amazing good is like the word bad it can be used in any situation and expresses
like or good quality it is not so serious for example I had a good day is
not as serious as I had an amazing day great means
something is better than good for example this is great soup words like
wonderful and amazing are used to describe things that are really really
good for example she is a wonderful teacher
or I had an amazing vacation while students that concludes today's lesson
on expanding your use of adjectives remember using more and different types
of adjectives can help you better express yourself and can help others
better understand what you mean if you enjoyed the lesson please consider
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