Adjectives What is an adjective Adjectives are words that describe nouns Function Describe Identify How can you find an adjectives How many Assigment OneTwo What kind Friend Happysad ID: 771102
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Adjectives
What is an adjective? Adjectives are words that describe nouns.
Function : Describe Identify
How can you find an adjectives? How many Assigment One,Two… What kind Friend Happy,sad...
rules Example 1: A- Trees have big fruits . Correct Adj N
Example 2: N a- Abigail is an excellent student: correct Example 3: a- The dog is white. verb be (present) b- The short was small. verb be (past)
Example 4: a- The ball looks big. Example 5: a- They have a tomatoes garden. N
Mistakes Example 1: a- Flowers have smalls roses:incorrect b- Flowers have small roses: correct. Example 2: a-María has hair pink:incorrect N Adj b-María has pink hair: correct Adj N
Example 3: a-Perico los Palotes handsome is incorrect Adj v. be b- Perico los Palotes is handsome correct v.be adj
Possessive Adjectives What is a possessive adjectives? They show to whom things belong or in others words, possession. Possessive adjectives My Your Her His Our Their Its. Possessive Pronouns Mine Yours Hers His Ours Theirs
Rules 1-A possessive adjectives is used only with a noun following it. Example: a- He has his book. b- They have their pens. Correct c-I have mine pen.d-I have my. Incorrect
Adjectives: comparisons with AS…AS Form: Subject + (not) As + Adj + As +Comp Rules: 1-Compare people, places or things and show how they are or aren´t similar. 2-Also show how they are the same or equal, and use just to make the comparison stronger.
3- Use not as + adj + as to show they are not same or equal. Examples: 1- The Jojo hamburguer is as good as Toto´s Hamburguer, but Jojo hamburguer isn´t as expensive as Toto´s hamburguer.2-The new apartment is just as big as the old. 3-The new house isn´t as varied bedroom as the old.
Adverbs: ModifyVerbs : The soccer team played badly last Saturday. Adjectives : It was an extemely bad match.Adverbs : The soccer team played extremely badly last Wednesday .Quantities : There are quite a lot of people here. Sentences : Unfortunately, the flight to Dallas had been cancelled.
Types of adverbs .1) Adverbs of manner quickly kindly 2) Adverbs of degree very rather 3) Adverbs of frequency often sometimes4) Adverbs of time now today5) Adverbs of place herenowhere
The three main positions of adverbs in English sentences 1) Adverb at the beginning of a sentence Unfortunately , we could not see Mount Snowdon. 2) Adverb in the middle of a sentence The children often ride their bikes. 3) Adverb at the end of a sentence Andy reads a comic every afternoon.
Comparison of adverbs As. . .as As Adverb As The Huskies Played Didn ´ t Play as HardWellAggressively consistentlyas The Gophers.