Tài liệu Grammar for everyone part 10 docx

Adjectives

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Definition: The word ‘adjective’ is from Latin ad jacere meaning

‘throw to’ or ‘add’. In the grammatical sense, this means to add the

characteristics of something, i.e. to qualify it.

Before studying adjectives, students should:

• know the definition of a noun

• recognise nouns, both common and proper

• be able to give examples of nouns

Adjectives tell us more about nouns.

For example:

a red rose a distinguished scholar

Remember: this, that, these and those, which are pronouns stand￾ing on their own, are adjectives if the noun is specified. We call

these possessive adjectives.

For example:

This is tasty. [pronoun]

But – This cake is tasty. [adjective]

Explained clearly, this is a lesson in logic.

The terms ‘limit’ and ‘modify’ are sometimes used with adjec￾tives, but these are also applied to adverbs, and it is helpful for

the student to use different terms, to better distinguish one from

another. For young children, the word ‘describe’ for adjectives

is preferable as they will be familiar with the word and readily

understand its meaning and application.

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