{"id":73922,"date":"2020-04-12T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73922"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:44:23","slug":"how-to-know-whether-a-word-is-an-adjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/how-to-know-whether-a-word-is-an-adjective\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Know Whether A Word Is An Adjective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adjectives usually go before nouns. They describe a quality of that noun. Or they may describe a number, quantity or amount. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Humans have<strong> two<\/strong> hands and <strong>ten<\/strong> fingers.<\/li><li>She wore a <strong>funny<\/strong> hat.<\/li><li>She is a <strong>pretty<\/strong> girl.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>An English adjective can exist in three forms &#8211; positive, comparative and superlative. So, if you can add <strong>-er<\/strong> or <strong>-est <\/strong>to a word, it is most probably an adjective. If that is not possible, see if you can use <strong>more<\/strong> or <strong>most<\/strong> in front of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples of adjectives are given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>kind \/ kinder \/ kindest<\/li><li>clever \/ cleverer \/ cleverest<\/li><li>easy \/ easier \/ easiest<\/li><li>tall \/ taller \/ tallest<\/li><li>brave \/ braver \/ bravest<\/li><li>pretty \/ prettier \/ prettiest<\/li><li>intelligent \/ more intelligent \/ most intelligent<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Worksheet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Underline the adjectives in the following sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Who is the tallest girl in your class?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. She sang a lovely song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. They live on the sixth floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. She wants to be a successful writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Dogs are loyal creatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. She is a famous writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. This is better than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. It was a long journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. She is a smart woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. Have a nice journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. Don&#8217;t be so silly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. Be careful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13. She is younger than her brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14. I am feeling hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15. She is pretty and intelligent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. tallest, 2. lovely, 3. sixth, 4. successful, 5. loyal, 6. famous, 7. better, 8. long, 9. smart, 10. nice, 11. silly, 12. careful, 13. younger, 14. hot, 15. pretty, intelligent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjectives usually go before nouns. They describe a quality of that noun. Or they may describe a number, quantity or amount. Humans have two hands and ten fingers. She wore a funny hat. She&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[537,2610,2609],"class_list":["post-73922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-adjectives","tag-how-to-identify-adjectives","tag-identity-the-adjectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77814,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922\/revisions\/77814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}