ADJECTIVES whats an adjective Its a word that

what’s an adjective? ✖ It’s a word that describes or clarifies a noun. ○

and REMEMBER!!!! ✖ADJECTIVES IN ENGLISH DON’T HAVE A PLURAL FORM!!!!! ○A BLACK cat. ○Two

adjectives ✖We can use quite and very with adjectives. ○ Alice is quite tall.

adjectives ✖ When we have more than one adjective, we need to put them

1. Choose the best answer for each sentence. The house is _________. large and

3. Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives? Can I have three good

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ADJECTIVES

what’s an adjective? ✖ It’s a word that describes or clarifies a noun. ○ The blue house. ○ The red house. ○ The green house. ✖We use adjectives BEFORE a noun. ○ The blue house NOT The house blue ✖We can use adjectives without a noun, when we use the verb TO BE. ○ The house IS BLUE ○ The houses ARE RED

and REMEMBER!!!! ✖ADJECTIVES IN ENGLISH DON’T HAVE A PLURAL FORM!!!!! ○A BLACK cat. ○Two BLACK cats. ○A hundred BLACK cats. ○Two BLACKS cats. ○A hundred BLACKS cats.

adjectives ✖We can use quite and very with adjectives. ○ Alice is quite tall. ○ Alice isn’t very tall. ✖ We use capital letters for adjectives related to languages and nationalities. ○ I love my English teacher. ○ My friend Laura is Russian.

adjectives ✖ When we have more than one adjective, we need to put them in the right order relating to examples 1 opinion unusual, lovely, beautiful 2 size big, small, tall 3 physical quality thin, rough, untidy 4 shape round, square, rectangular 5 age young, old, youthful 6 colour blue, red, pink 7 origin Dutch, Japanese, Turkish 8 material metal, wood, plastic 9 type general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped 10 purpose cleaning, hammering, cooking

LET’S PRACTISE

1. Choose the best answer for each sentence. The house is _________. large and white and large white They live in a _________ house. large and white and large white 2. Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives? We are on a blue, old Chinese bus. We are on a Chinese, old, blue bus. We are on an old, blue Chinese bus.

3. Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives? Can I have three good reasons why you don’t like spinach? Can I have good three reasons why you don’t like spinach? Can I have good reasons three why you don’t like spinach? 4. Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives? I like that really big red old antique tractor in the museum. I like that really big old red antique tractor in the museum. I like that old, really big antique tractor in the museum. 5. Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives? My brother has a beautiful big black Spanish horse. My brother has a beautiful Spanish big black horse. My brother has a big, black, beautiful Spanish horse.