In English language, an adjective, a part of speech, is a "describing word", modifying a noun much like a determiner. Past participle in sentences are often woked as adjective.
In the examples, the adjective is highlighted in bold.
- It is a cold day.
- He is a kind man.
- I like blue sky.
- The sky is blue.
- The joke she told was so funny, I could not stop laughing all day.
- He went mad.
In the first set of examples the adjective simply describes a noun. In the later examples the adjective forms a predicate.
Some adjectives in English, such as "_my_" or "_bonkers_" can not be used both ways.
In English, adjectives come before the noun they describe. In French, they usually come after the noun.
An adjectival phrase is a phrase with an adjective as its head. (e.g. full of toys) . Adjectival phrases may occur as premodifiers to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as predicatives to a verb (the bin is full of toys).
Non-standard adjectives in English
Following is a list of English adjectives that are non-standard in that they are not derived from the same root as the corresponding noun, or they are based on the same root but in a way that is non-intuitive even to a native English speaker. In some cases, the non-standard adjective is merely an alternative to a standard one. For example, for an adjective form of 'charity' we could say 'eleemosynary', though in most cases 'charitable' would work just as well.
Also some of the adjectives have a similar noun form, which acts as an alternative noun.
See also: Nouns, Verbs |
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