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We already had a look at\u00a0the different parts of speech or word classes that exist in the\u00a0English language in an earlier article published on the Online-Spellcheck.com blog. Thus, it’s only natural, to expand and dig a little deeper into\u00a0one of them in some more\u00a0detail today. This article is part of a series that explores the word classes of the short overview more in depth.<\/p>\n

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Today’s article is about an, admittedly, less important\u00a0word class from a pure sentence-forming view. However, using these words makes writing and our life in general a bit more colorful. We’re, of course, talking about: adjectives. We will have a look at different types of adjectives and at their most prominent features.<\/p>\n

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Adjectives\u00a0In The English Language<\/h2>\n

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What Are Adjectives?<\/h3>\n

Adjectives describe other words, mainly nouns or\u00a0pronouns and their respective phrases. They modify these other words, adding more detail and information. While they are not required in a sentence like nouns and verbs are, they add greatly to conveying a certain mood, quality or importance in writing.\u00a0The common attributes adjectives portray are quantity and quality, age, shape and color and size. There are some others as well though. Refer to the examples below:<\/p>\n

Quantity or number: three, fifteen, dozen
\nQuality: beautiful, amazing, incredible, lame, boring
\nSize: little, small, large, huge, tiny, narrow, wide
\nColor: green, white, black,\u00a0violet
\nAge: old, young, new
\nShape: round, heart-shaped, drop-shaped, circular
\nProper adjectives:\u00a0French,\u00a0antique, European, silk<\/p>\n

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Adjectives belong to a word class that is considered open<\/strong>. This means that, opposed to closed word\u00a0classes, new words can be made up and added to the word class of adjectives.<\/p>\n

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Formerly, words like the, this, your, an<\/em> and the like were classified as adjectives as well. However, by now, it’s more common to refer to those as pronouns and determiners.<\/p>\n

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Different Adjective Uses<\/h3>\n

Adjectives can be used in different ways. Three major ones are as attribution, predicates and even as nouns. Lets have a closer look at the different usages below, of course with examples that will make the explanations easier to understand.<\/p>\n

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Attributive<\/strong> adjectives are directly preceding\u00a0the noun they are modifying in English. You could say that this is the typical or most common usage of an adjective.<\/p>\n

This is one happy<\/strong> dog.<\/p>\n

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Predicative<\/strong> adjectives do not appear right before or after the noun or pronoun they modify, but are linked to it via a copula like is<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Marcel and Linda got a little baby boy. They are so happy<\/strong> about it.<\/p>\n

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Nominal<\/strong> adjectives can almost be seen as proper nouns. They mostly occur in sentences where a comparison is made. Instead of repeating the noun, the simple notion of the adjective is enough to imply the noun that has been left out.<\/p>\n

They watched two movies yesterday.\u00a0Andr\u00e9 is a fan of the sad movie, but Becky liked\u00a0the happy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Compound Adjectives<\/h3>\n

Compound adjectives are formed by\u00a0joining two or three adjectives together. Here, it’s important to distinguish the difference between a compound adjective and a pair of adverb and adjective. Usually, compound adjectives are written with a hyphen in the middle.<\/p>\n

Stephanie is only a part-time<\/strong> employee.
\nRaphael has an amazing 1-year-old<\/strong> shepherd.<\/p>\n

Note that in the last example, amazing<\/em> is not part of the compound. It is rather a second adjective that also modifies the noun shepherd<\/em>. Likewise, in the following example, very<\/em> is not part of the compound either. It’s an adverb that modifies the adjective itself.<\/p>\n

The kids were very well-behaved<\/strong> at school today.<\/p>\n

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Comparative Adjectives<\/h3>\n

In English, adjectives are comparable. That means\u00a0that they can be more <\/strong>or even most\u00a0<\/strong>something. Some adjectives actually use more<\/em> and most<\/em> for this comparison, but some change their spelling by using the suffixes –er<\/em> and –est.<\/em><\/p>\n

Percy is a very old<\/strong> dog, but my cat Michael is even older<\/strong>.\u00a0But I am definitely the oldest<\/strong> of us.<\/p>\n

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Some adjectives, however, form this comparison irregular.<\/p>\n

I am very good<\/strong> at lacrosse, but Jane is even better<\/strong>. Shane is the best<\/strong> at it though.<\/p>\n

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This does not account to all adjectives, however. One tree can seldom be more green<\/em> or greener<\/em> than another.<\/p>\n

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Agreement<\/h3>\n

English does not show any agreement between the adjective and the word it modifies. In languages like French, the verb and the modified noun or pronoun always agree with respect to the gender of the noun.<\/p>\n

Le lapin blanc<\/strong>. (The white rabbit \u2013 rabbit<\/em> is masculine in French)\u00a0?
\nLe lapin blanche<\/strong>.\u00a0?
\nLa chambre blanche<\/strong>. (The white bedroom \u2013 bedroom<\/em> is feminine in French)\u00a0?
\nLa chambre blanc<\/strong>.\u00a0?<\/p>\n

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We already had a look at\u00a0the different parts of speech or word classes that exist in the\u00a0English language in an earlier article published on the Online-Spellcheck.com blog. Thus, it’s only natural, to expand and dig a little deeper into\u00a0one of them in some more\u00a0detail today. This article is part of a series that explores the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}