How to identify adjectives

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Adjectives are describing words. Here are a few tips to identify adjectives.

An adjective can exist in three forms: the positive, the comparative and the superlative. The word is probably an adjective, if you can add -er or -est to it. Or, if you can use more or most in front of it. The following words are all adjectives.

Short / shorter / shortest
Kind / kinder / kindest
Soft / softer / softest
Nice / nicer / nicest
Fat / fatter / fattest
Beautiful / more beautiful / most beautiful
Tragic / more tragic / most tragic

Adjectives can also be used with degree modifiers like very, quite or pretty.

I am very happy.
He is quite handsome.
That was a pretty disgusting experience.

Adjectives can be immediately followed by nouns.

That was a difficult situation. (Here the adjective difficult goes in front of the noun situation.)

Exercise

Identify the adjectives in the following sentences.

1. She is a nice person.

2. Suman has such a sweet voice.

3. Megha is perhaps the most industrious woman I know.

4. Krishna is cleverer than most boys his age.

5. Amar has won a prestigious award.

6. Ann has a lovely voice.

Answers

Nice, sweet, industrious, cleverer, prestigious, lovely

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How to identify adjectives

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