GRAMMAR III
UNIT #1
UNIT # 3
UNIT #2
Adjetives Degrees(part A)
The Adjetives
Positions
Concepts
Types
Comparative
Example to explain
Positive
Pre- Modifiers
Examples to Explain
Superlative
UNIT # 4
Thers Cosideration
Others Considerations
Capitalizing Proper Adjetives
Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns or things in the sentence.
the intelligent professor
Adjectives nearly always appear immediately before the noun or noun phrase that they
modify
These are types of adjective: possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite. A
possessive adjective
possessive adjective
n interrogative adjective
indefinite adjective
The demonstrative adjectives
Adjectives have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative.
Adjectives of one syllable and some two syllable adjectives -- add -er to comparative.
Positeve - Comparative
Example: Big - Bigger
Irregular Adjectives
Example: good- better
Both adverbs and adjectives in their comparative and superlative forms can be
accompanied by pre-modifiers, single words and phrases that intensify the degree.
We were a lot more careful this time.
He works a lot less carefully than the other jeweler in town.
Good or Well?
Sure or Surely?
Bad or Badly?
Near or Nearly
When an adjective owes its origins to a proper noun, it should probably be capitalized
We took the northwest route during the spring thaw. We stayed there until the town's
annual Fall Festival of Small Appliances.
Collective Adjetives
When the definite article, the, is combined with an adjective describing a class or group
of people,the resulting phrase can act as a noun
If a group of words containing a subject and verb acts as an adjective, it is called an
Adjective Clause.
Ejemplo:. The largest city is Los Angeles,
The rural poor have been ignored by the media