adjectives
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AdjectivesBy Alejandro
R.L.
Beautiful SQUARE
JAPANESE!!
BIG
Red
Winter
METALLIC
Old
B.A. English Education Degree. FUNLAM, 2016.
Adjectives are words that express qualities and characteristics of a person or object
By instance:
That new red car is what i am looking for!
New: This adjective let us know that the car has just been produced.Red: This adjective let us know what is the color of the car.
In English, even if we can put adjectives after the person or object they are qualifying , it is
better to put them before the adjective, because it sounds better for native speakers
and it is the way they use it most of the time:
My house is big and old.My big old house.
When we are talking about adjectives, we must know that they have an order, so let us see what it is like:
Adjective type and order
Description Examples
1. Opinion What you think about someone or something. Beautiful, smart, stupid, ugly, skillful, reckless, etc.
2. Size A thing's overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is.
Big, little, enormous, giant, tiny, massive, etc.
3. Age The length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed.
New, old, ancient, young, etc.
4. Shape A geometric figure such as a square, triangle, or rectangle.
Square, round, fat, skinny, flat, curved, etc.
5. Color The pigmentation of objects , skin, organs, and so on..
Yellow, black, red, blue, white, purple, etc.
6. Origin The point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived.
Colombian, spanish, peruvian, canadian, etc.
7. Material The matter from which a thing is or can be made.
Wooden, metallic, leather, plastic, etc.
8. Purpose the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.
Sleeping, winter, summer, swimming, camping, etc.
A really good tip to remember adjective’s order is to take the first letter of every type in order and create the acronism “OSASCOMP”, let’s check it out:
OriginSizeAgeShapeColorOriginMaterialPurpose
Let’s check some examples:
• The attractive big new rectangular gold south corean metallic summer smartphone is what i want for christmas.
• My beloved old gold necklace ring is lost!
•My powerful big new gray gamer computer is the best!
• That exclusive massive titanium ring is amazing!
ActivityI want you to write 5 sentences using adjectives, describing 5 things that you like of a specific urban tribe. It can be people or objects.Take into account that:1. One sentence needs to have all the 8 adjectives types.2. The other four need to have at least 2 adjectives.3. All the sentences need to belong to the same urban tribe
and they need to make sense.
After you finish this activity, send it to my email, because it will be graded: [email protected]
!Thank you!