Adjectives often follow a form of be (am, is, are).

Adjectives describe or give information about a noun or pronoun (subject) that comes at the beginning of a sentence.
A ball is round. I am hungry. They are happy.

They have the same form in the singular and plural

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

clean easy fast interesting friendly used big comfortable beautiful young cold happy

a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l.

uncomfortable warm old ugly small dirty slow new boring unfriendly difficult sad

beautiful ugly big little big small cheap expensive clean dirty cold hot dangerous safe dry wet easy hard easy - difficult

good bad happy sad large small long short noisy quiet old new old young poor rich sour sweet strong - weak

angry bright busy delicious famous favorite free fresh honest hungry

important intelligent interesting kind lazy nervous nice ripe serious wonderful

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Adjectives can also describe nouns. In grammar we say that adjectives modify nouns. They give a little different meaning to a noun. Adjectives come in front of nouns.
I dont like cold weather. The hungry boy has a fresh apple.

A noun is usually modified by only one or two adjectives, although sometimes there are three
a large red car.

Opinion adjectives usually come before all others.

a beautiful young woman.

It is very rare to find a long list of adjectives in front of a noun.

a beautiful small old brown Greek metal coin.

When we use two or more adjective we must follow an order.

OPINION

SIZE

AGE

COLOR

NACIONALITY

MATERIAL

beautiful delicious kind dirty happy

large young tall old little middle-aged small short long

red blue black white orange

Greek Mexican Chinese Canadian Italian

metal plastic glass iron silver

Adjectives of length (big, tall, long) usually go before adjectives of shape (round, fat, thin).
a large round table.

a tall thin girl.

When there are two or more colour adjectives, we use and, usually we must follow the vocabulary order, or the order of the colors in the noun.
a black and white dress. a red, white and green flag.

We can often use present and past participles of verbs as adjectives. There are many adjectives ending in ing and ed. Past participles or adjectives ending with ed expresses how someone feels.
Jane is bored (with her job).
Julia is interested in politics

Present participles or adjectives ending with ing expresses someones opinion about something.
Janes job is boring. Julia thinks politics is interesting.

Compare both endings

Jane is bored because her job is boring. Why do you always look so bored? Is your life

really boring?

Describe how somebody does something

He is driving so slowly.

Describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.

He plays well.
He is incredibly fast.

We can make adverbs by adding ly to most of the adjectives.

Quick Accurate Dangerous Safe

Quickly Accurately Dangerously Safely Wonderfully Carefully

If the adjective ends in l, add ly:

Wonderful Careful

If the adjective ends in le, drop the e and add ly:

Gentle

Gently

If the adjective ends in a consonant + y, drop the y and add ily:

Easy

Noisy

Easily Noisily

Some adverbs are irregular. Some have the same form as the adjective or completely different form:
Good
Fast Hard

Early
Late

Well Fast Hard Early Late

Workbook Unit 10.

Exercises 10 & 10b on pages 53-56