Adjectives

Hello students,

Today, we're going to start learning about adjectives in English.

I. What is an adjective?

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

For example: blue

1. A blue chair.

In this example, blue is an adjective that describes the chair. 

II. How many adjectives are there?

In English, we have a lot of types of adjectives, for example:

III. How do you write using adjectives?

You can start using adjectives with these 2 structures:

1. Subject + verb to be (am / is / are) + Adjective

Examples:

He is American.

She is young.

It is little.


2. Determiner + adjective + noun

The wooden table

A Greek salad

Some great movies

IV. What are the rules when you use adjectives?

When you use adjectives, there are some rules you must follow:

a) Never put an adjective AFTER a noun. For example:

1. The dog brown. -> This is an incorrect sentence.

2. The brown dog. -> This is a correct sentence.

In English, they use first the adjective, and then they put the nouns. (The opposite of Spanish)


b) In English, you can describe a noun using many adjectives, but they have to be written in order. For example:

1. A red small car. -> This is an incorrect phrase.

2. A small red car. -> This is a correct phrase.

Why is that?

Because in English, size adjectives go before color adjectives.

Here's a video that explains it better!

V. How important are adjectives?

Adjectives are really important in English.

- They can be use to describe better a person, animal, place or thing.

- They can be use to compare and contrast two nouns.

- They can be use to give more information about things.

Let's finish this topic with some videos for you to review the adjectives

Video 1

Video 2

Tomorrow, we'll see how to use adjectives to compare things!

Have a great day kids!

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