What are common adjectives

Common Adjectives

Common Adjectives

Common Adjectives Definition

A common adjective is a grammatical part of speech that describes a noun (a person, place, thing, or idea). Adjectives typically answer the questions: “Which one?” “What kind?” “How many?” “How much?”

Examples of Common Adjectives

In English grammar, some examples of common adjectives would be the following:

The funny teacher kept the class engaged.
(“funny” is an adjective describing the noun “teacher”)

Please hand me the tattered book.
(“tattered” is an adjective describing the noun “book”)

She rode the rusty bike down the block.
(“rusty” is an adjective describing the noun “bike”)

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List of 228 Common Adjectives

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Adjectives modify perhaps the most common words in the English language, nouns. With a list of common adjectives at hand, you can effectively describe your surroundings in detail. The words on this list of 228 adjectives can all be used to describe feelings or the appearance of objects and can also make it easy to describe yourself, your surroundings and your favorite things.

A-D List of Adjective Words

The first part of this list features commonly used adjectives from the first four letters of the alphabet.

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E-K Adjectives List

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There are plenty more often-used adjectives that start with letters in the next part of the alphabet. Review these adjective words that begin with the letters “e” through “k.”

L-S Adjective Words

Moving forward in alphabetical order, there are still many more adjectives appropriate for use in everyday conversation. Explore these common words that start with the letters between “l” and “s.”

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T-Z List of Adjectives

There are plenty more common adjectives throughout the remainder of the alphabet. Explore these common words that start with the letters between “t” and “z.”

Printable Adjectives List

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Why Use an Adjective List?

Whether you are a native English speaker or you are learning English as a second language, using an adjective list like this one can help you expand your language skills and organize your learning.

• Using an adjective list can help you build a more advanced vocabulary and build your ability to use descriptive language. This, in turn, will allow you to become a more effective writer and speaker.
• People who are learning a foreign language often make a list of common descriptive words to study in order to expand their vocabulary beyond just basic nouns and verbs in the new language.

Expand Your Descriptive Language Skills

While a list of 228 adjectives sounds like a lot, these are actually just a few examples of the many adjectives in the English language. When you’re ready to build out an even more extensive vocabulary of descriptive words, explore this list of more than 125 positive adjectives. Put a positive spin on your whole day with these uplifting descriptive words. Then, discover adjectives that describe tone, feelings and emotions. Get ready to boost your creativity and start building up your list of adjective words today!

Read the phrases Find what common features all adjective phrases have in early spring warm autumn ...

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cold water with a small shoe

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Adjectives in these phrases with the connection type “agreement” are in the instrumental case, singular, feminine; nouns refer to the following declensions: spring (1st declension), autumn (3rd declension), water (1st declension), shoe (1st declension). nine0003

Sample sentences:

1. We decided that we would go camping with friends in early spring, when nature starts to wake up after winter.
2. I think that in warm autumn you can have a great time outdoors, walking around the city or playing with friends.
3. Every morning Artyom doused himself with cold water to harden his body.
4. The salesman raised his hand with a small shoe to show it to us.

In the task, we are given four phrases:

• early spring
• warm autumn
• cold water
• small shoe

Each of these phrases has the following composition "adjective + noun". The noun is the main word in any of these phrases. It poses a question to the adjective.

Find common features of adjectives according to the task condition

What do the adjectives of the given phrases have in common? Let's figure it out:

1. All four adjectives have a singular form, since they denote a sign of one object or phenomenon.
2. Putting the phrases in the initial form (early spring, warm autumn, cold water, small shoe), we determine that the adjectives are feminine.
3. In all these four phrases from the main word (from the noun) to the dependent (to the adjective) the same question is posed "What?" Considering the above two signs, we conclude that adjectives are in the form of instrumental case. nine0016

Decline the given phrases by cases

In order to make sure that the task is completed correctly, we decline our phrases by cases:

• Nominative case - (What? What?) early spring;
• Genitive - (What? What?) Early spring;
• Dative - (What? To what?) in early spring;
• Accusative - (What? What?) Early spring;
• Instrumental case - (What? What?) in early spring; nine0016
• Prepositional case - (About what? About what?) about early spring.

• Nominative case - warm autumn;
• Genitive case - warm autumn;
• Dative case - warm autumn;
• Accusative - warm autumn;
• Instrumental case - warm autumn;
• Prepositional case - about warm autumn.

• Nominative - cold water;
• Genitive - cold water; nine0016
• Dative - cold water;
• Accusative - cold water;
• Instrumental case - cold water;
• Prepositional case - about cold water.

• Nominative - small shoe;
• Genitive - small shoe;
• Dative - small shoe;
• Accusative - small shoe;
• Instrumental - with a small shoe; nine0016
• Prepositional case - about a small shoe.

basic rules of use ‹ Ingleks

Thanks to adjectives, speech sounds brighter and more emotional, but you need to be able to choose them correctly in order to correctly express your thoughts. We have prepared a summary of rules, exceptions, and examples in this article to help you understand the difference between strong and weak adjectives.

Imagine that you have read a book that you like and you want to tell your friends or acquaintances about it. Most likely, you will say: It's a very interesting book (This is a very interesting book). But how to express admiration if you liked the book much more than just liked it? The first thing that comes to mind is to use superlatives: It's the most interesting book I've ever read (This is the most interesting book I've ever read). However, there is another way - to replace the usual English adjective with its strong form. nine0003

Adjectives in English can be conditionally divided into two groups:

1. Weak adjectives:
   • do not have a strong emotional coloring, but simply characterize an object;
   • have degrees of comparison;
   • can be used with words such as very (very), a bit (a little), rather (quite), pretty (quite, enough), quite (pretty), fairly (quite), etc.
2. Strong adjectives:
   • have a strong emotional connotation, therefore they are used to express very strong emotions or states;
   • most of them do not have degrees of comparison;
   • most often, words such as very, a bit, rather, pretty, quite, fairly cannot be added to them, since their meanings are already contained in the definitions of these adjectives. For example, you cannot use the word very with the word fantastic (amazing), but you can use words such as absolutely (absolutely), extremely (extremely), completely (absolutely), totally (absolutely, completely). nine freezing very bad awful, terrible, dreadful very good extraordinary very cheerful hilarious very upset
     - Yes, it's tiny !
     Is a very small country house ?
     - Yes, tiny .

     - Was the film very bad ?
     - Yes, it was awful .
     - The movie was very bad ?
     - Yes, he was terrible .

     - Did he look very sad ?
     - Yes, he looked miserable .
     - He looked very upset ?
     - Yes, he looked unhappy .

     Adverbs that are used with strong and weak adjectives

     Adverbs are used with adjectives to give them additional shades. Intensifying adverbs are also divided into strong and weak adverbs and are used according to the principle “opposites attract”, that is, strong adverbs are combined with weak adjectives, and weak adverbs with strong adjectives. The table shows examples of the correspondence of adverbs and adjectives.

     Strong adverbs for weak adjectives	Weak adverbs for strong adjectives — Usually Cheryl is very tired at the end of the day.	Richard has been completely miserable since the car accident that happened. Richard has been completely unhappy since the car accident happened. nine0162
     rather	absolutely
     She is rather angry . Let's not annoy her. – She is quite angry . Let's not annoy her.	All the paintings which she drew in the past were absolutely wonderful . - All the pictures she has done in the past have been just wonderful .
     slightly	totally
     His behavior was slightly unusual . — His behavior was slightly unusual .	He came back home totally exhausted . — He returned home completely exhausted .
     a bit	utterly
     I’m a bit hungry . Let's eat something. — I got a little hungry . Let's eat something.	Patrick's habit of picking his nose is utterly disgusting . - Patrick's habit of picking 's nose is absolutely disgusting .
     a little	entirely
     My new neighbor is a little weird . — My new neighbor is a bit strange .	It's not like the movie was entirely awful , but I didn't like it. - Not that the movie was absolutely terrible , but I didn't like it. nine0162
     dreadfully	simply
     When we found her, she was dreadfully scared . — When we found her, she was terribly frightened .	Wasting almost $400 on that dress was simply ridiculous ! — Spending almost $400 on this dress was just ridiculous !
     reasonably enough	virtually
     His new car is reasonably expensive . — His new car is rather expensive .	When the kid was found, he was virtually starving . - When the child was found, he was practically starving .
     immensely - extremely, immensely	not nearly (so / as) - far from, not at all
     This boys band was immensely popular in the 90s. — This boy band was very popular at 90 years.	The book is not nearly as extraordinary as I thought. — Book is not so unusual as I thought.

     Exceptions to the rule

     When we talk about something with irony and want to emphasize it, then weak adverbs (absolutely, totally, virtually), which are usually combined with strong adjectives, can be used with weak ones. At the same time, strong adverbs (rather, very) can be used with strong adjectives. nine0003

     The food we ordered was absolutely nice . — The food we ordered was absolutely good .
     The situation seemed to be rather impossible . — The situation seemed absolutely unacceptable .

     Adverbs such as fairly, really, pretty and extremely are considered universal because they can be used with both strong and weak adjectives.

     This writer is fairly popular now. His books are all bestsellers. — This writer is now is quite popular . All of his books are bestsellers.
     I have no idea why this song is such an earworm - it's fairly awful . I don't understand why this song doesn't get out of my head. She is rather disgusting .

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