Matières
Niveaux
Adjectives
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Table des matières
- Haut de page
- Using Adjectives
- Adjective Placement
- Adjective Placement—Exercise
- Order of Adjectives
- Order of Adjectives—Exercise
- Overused Adjectives—Using Richer Adjectives
- Comparative & Superlative Adjectives
- Possessive Adjectives
- Demonstrative Adjectives
- Adjectives for Advanced Users
- For Advanced Users: Interrogative Adjectives
- For Advanced Users: Nouns & Verbs as Adjectives
- For Advanced Users: Proper Adjectives
- For Advanced Users: Compound Adjectives
- See Also
Adjectives do not have a plural or singular form: they always stay the same.
Only adjectives used as determiners have plural forms. They are the:
Using Adjectives
Adjective Placement
Adjective Placement—Exercise
Order of Adjectives
Order of Adjectives—Exercise
Overused Adjectives—Using Richer Adjectives
Some adjectives get overused.
Here are some alternatives:
Another way to say…
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nice |
good |
bad |
great |
best |
more |
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kind |
excellent |
awful |
exceptional |
first |
additional |
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small |
big |
easy |
difficult |
cool |
funny |
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little |
huge |
simple |
tough |
relaxed |
amusing |
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happy |
sad |
angry |
new |
young |
old |
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glad |
unhappy |
mad |
recent |
blooming |
aged |
Comparative & Superlative Adjectives
Comparative and superlative adjectives are used to compare things or people.
Comparative adjectives compare two things or people.
For example comparing two people’s age:
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Person 1 |
Age comparison |
Person 2 |
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Yayoi is |
older than |
Ushio. |
Superlative adjectives compare more than two things or people.
For example comparing one person’s age to several other people’s ages:
|
Person 1 |
Age comparison |
All other people |
|
Yayoi is |
the oldest |
artist in the group. |
Visit the Comparative & Superlative Adjectives concept sheet to learn more about them.
Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives are used to indicate ownership of a noun, who it belongs to.
The possessive adjectives are:
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my |
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your |
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his |
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our |
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your |
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their |
Visit the Possessive Adjectives concept sheet to learn more about them.
Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives are used to:
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point something out
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indicate the position of an object
-
indicate singular and plural
The demonstrative adjectives are:
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this |
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that |
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these |
|
those |
Visit the Demonstrative Adjectives concept sheet to learn more about them.