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Grammar 3
Unit 1 Adjectives
Words that describe nouns/pronouns
Modifies nouns/pronouns by describing, identifying or quantifying words
usually precedes nouns/pronouns
can be modified by adverbs
come after indefinite pronouns
Order: Adj/noun/subsequent adjective clause
Categories: 1. Determiners, 2. Numbers, 3. Observations, 4. Size and Shape, 5. Age, 6. Color, 7. Origin, 8. Material, 9. Qualifier
types: possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinitive
Unit 2 Positive
Adjectives have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative and superlative
Positive degree names a quality of one person or thing
Comparatives are used to compare two things. When a word is short (one or some two syllables) add –er. Many 2 syllable words or words with 3 or more syllables need ‘more’ in front of the adjective. Never combine both rules.
Superlatives compare three or more things. When a word is short (one or some two syllables) add –est. Many 2 syllable words and words with 3 or more need ‘most’ in front of the adjective. Never combine both rules.
Words that end in y have the endings –ier or –iest.
The construction “as…..as” is used to create a comparison expressing equality.
Some adjectives are irregular: good-better, bad-worse, little-less
Unit 3 Pre-modifiers
“Both adverbs and adjectives in their comparative and superlative forms can be accompanied by pre-modifiers, single words and phrases that intensify the degree.”
If the intensifier “very” comes with the superlative it requires a determiner.
When you want to describe a feeling, use a predicate adjective, not an adverb.
Good and well: good-adjective; well - adverb but can function as an adjective as well. If I talk about health, I would use well. Sure and surely: Use sure as an adjective and surely as an adverb. Real and really. Real-adjective and really -adverb.
Unit 4 Other considerations