Wednesday, October 17, 2018

3. THE ADJECTIVES.

Adjectives are those words that join a name to expand, complement and quantify their meaning.
In English there are eight kinds of adjectives:
1. Qualifiers: good, good; thin, thin; dry, dry; bad, bad; short short
2. Demonstrative: this, this; that, that; these, these; those, those
3. Distributive: each, each; every, everything; either, one and the other; neither, neither one nor the other.
4. Of quantity: some, some; any, any; little, little; few, few; many, many; much, much; enough, enough
5. Interrogative: which ?, which ?; What? What? whose ?, from whom ?, etc.
6. Possessives: my, your , his; her, his; its, ours, your, their, yours
7. Own: French;English; Spanish; etc.
8. Numerals: one; ten; first, second; etc.
GENERALITIES
- The adjectives in English are invariable in gender and number.
yellow = yellow.
- Normally they are placed in front of the noun:
I have a big book.
- Verb To be + (am / is / are / was, etc.) + adjective
These pictures are very beautiful / These images are very beautiful
- To be + adjective has sometimes the equivalence to "Have"
I'm hungry .




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