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Adjectives for Kids

by Craig Shrives

What Are Adjectives? (for Kids)

Adjectives are describing words. In these examples, the highlighted words are all adjectives:

a tall man
a smelly street
a tasty apple

Adjectives help us to create vivid images about people, places, or things. The words "man," "street," and "apple" are nouns. So, adjectives are words that describe nouns.

It's Your Go!

Select the adjective in each sentence:

Easy Examples of Adjectives

Here are some more examples of adjectives in sentences:

Barney is a happy dog.
She was an angry lady.
It will be a cold night.

These adjectives describe the nouns "dog," "lady," and "night. "

Using Stronger Adjectives

All the adjectives we've seen so far have provided simple descriptions. However, there are thousands of different adjectives, and many of them are quite sophisticated and give the writer exactly the right description. Here are some examples of stronger alternatives for the adjectives we've used so far:

Simple Adjective	Stronger Adjectives
tall	towering, lanky
smelly	rancid, reeking, putrid, foul
tasty	delectable, scrumptious, delicious
happy	delighted, elated, joyful, merry
angry	bitter, annoyed, offended, enraged
cold	frigid, frosty, brisk, wintry

To find the perfect adjective, writers often use a thesaurus to look for a strong alternative to a simple adjective that isn't quite right. Let's try one:

You have a clean car.

weak adjective

Here are some stronger alternatives from a thesaurus:

immaculate, spotless, unblemished, shiny, sparkling

Let's rewrite our sentence with a stronger adjective:

You have a spotless car.

Top Tip

Writers who find adjectives that fit perfectly do not use intensifiers like "very" and "extremely."

Bobby is a very hungry dog.
Bobby is a ravenous dog.

More about Adjectives

So far, all the adjectives we've seen have been positioned before nouns to describe them. However, as you learn to spot adjectives, you will soon notice that adjectives do not always go before nouns. Look at these examples:

That girl is elegant.

Alan was foolish.

The view from the mountain top will be stunning on Saturday.

Adjectives used like this are called predicate adjectives.

More about Predicate Adjectives

Predicate adjectives are used after linking verbs (e. g., "to be," "to seem," "to smell"). For example (linking verbs in bold):

The path is unsafe.
The sea seems calm.
The soup smells delicious.

Of interest, some adjectives (e.g., "afraid," "asleep," "alive," and "unable") are always predicate adjectives. In other words, they are only used after linking verbs.

Toby is afraid.
The troll looks asleep.

Other Ways to Describe Things

Choosing strong adjectives is an essential part of writing well. However, there are other ways to describe things. Let's look at some examples:

The children were hungry.
The children were ravenous.
The children descended on the sandwiches like locusts.

He had bad teeth.
He had rotten teeth.
He had teeth like smashed eagles' beaks.

So, as well as looking for strong adjectives, you should also think about using comparisons like similes to provide vivid descriptions for your readers.

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Adjective Facts for Kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. Nouns are words that name a place, a person, a thing, or an idea. An adjective is a word that gives more information about the noun that goes with it. It is a part of speech.

Often, the adjective is before the noun it describes. Sometimes an adjective is not followed by a noun:

The sky is blue.
The joke she told was so funny, I could not stop laughing all day.

It is still an adjective, because we could have "the blue sky", "the funny joke", and "the crazy man". The adjective is still describing the noun though they are not side by side.
There is a tall man.

An adjective is a word that gives instant information about a noun to make a clear picture of the noun in the mind of the reader and create a feeling to the writer.

Comparative and superlative
Nouns as noun modifiers
Adjectives and adverbs
100 Adjectives used in Basic English

Comparative and superlative

Sometimes there are different forms of the same adjective. If one joke makes a person laugh more than another joke, then that joke is funnier. This is called the comparative form. The day that is colder than any other is the coldest day. This is the superlative form of "cold". Some adjectives need additional words when we want to compare them. For instance, one car may be cheaper than another, but the second car may be more reliable (we use "more reliable", instead of "reliabler"). Reliable means worthy of trust.

The rule is:

For short adjectives ending in a consonant like "cold," "black," or "fast," one adds the suffix er to make a comparison of greater magnitude. Example: "The North Pole is colder than Florida." The greatest possible comparison is made by adding the suffix est. Example: "The North Pole is the coldest place on the Earth." For long adjectives like intelligent, conscientious, comprehensive, one uses the word more to make a comparison of greater magnitude. Example: "Children are more intelligent than adults. "

A superlative makes the greatest possible comparison. One uses the word most. Example: "She is the most conscientious person I have ever known."

Nouns as noun modifiers

In the English language, it is possible for a noun to modify (describe) another noun. Example: take the noun "angel" and the noun "face." Put them together and the result is "angel face." The first noun is acting as an adjective, because it is giving us information about the second noun.

Adjectives and adverbs

Adjectives are words we use to describe the noun. Simple words like "warm" and "fat" are adjectives commonly used in writing. One can make adverbs from some adjectives by adding the suffix ly. Example: take the adjective "beautiful," the adverb is beautifully. One can do it the other way around: take an adverb like "presumably," the adjective is "presumable". "Presumable innocence" means the accused is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.

The adjective "guilty" becomes the adverb "guiltily" and vice versa (the opposite), the adverb "guiltily" becomes the adjective "guilty. "

100 Adjectives used in Basic English

able • acid • angry • automatic • beautiful • black • boiling • bright • broken • brown • cheap • chemical • chief • clean • clear • common • complex • conscious • cut • deep • dependent • early • elastic • electric • equal • fat • fertile • first • fixed • flat • free • frequent • full • general • good • great • gray • hanging • happy • hard • healthy • high • hollow • important • kind • like • living • long • male • married • material • medical • military • natural • necessary • new • normal • open • parallel • past • physical • political • poor • possible • present • private • probable • quick • quiet • ready • red • regular • responsible • right • round • same • second • separate • serious • sharp • smooth • sticky • stiff • straight • strong • sudden • sweet • tall • thick • tight • tired • true • violent • warm • wet • wide • wise • yellow • young

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Morphology of the Russian language 1: nouns, adjectives, pronouns

Adjective is an inflected part of speech that usually designates a sign (of an object, person, thing), and is also semantically and grammatically associated with a noun or pronoun, the meanings or characteristics of which are clarified:

HouseØ – new , large , wooden , spacious , beautiful , cozy , . .. blue Room – light , large , spacious , children , small , blue ...

Sea – warm salty huge , deep , black , beautiful , blue ...

Because the word house is masculine, adjectives get the endings -y/-y/-oy because the word room is feminine, adjectives get the endings -y/-yy , t the word sea is neuter, adjectives get the endings -oe/-ee .

Usually adjectives form phrases like 9 with nouns or pronouns0390 agreement , i.e. one word in such a phrase is the main one and determines the grammatical categories of the second word, therefore all grammatical categories of adjectives depend on the grammatical categories of nouns or pronouns. For adjectives, grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter), number (singular, plural) , case , as well as degree of comparison can be determined - a category that is typical for adjectives and adverbs (other see 8 Degrees of comparison adjectives) Degrees of comparison can only have adjectives that denote a non-permanent, changing feature, as well as a feature that can be measured, for example. large , thick , tall , dark , long ..

The grammatical dependence of adjectives on nouns is complete (see examples above), which means that adjectives agree with nouns in gender, number and case, but in the plural gender differences are erased and only two endings are possible for all adjectives : new houses / rooms / sea , large houses / rooms / sea , blue houses / rooms / sea .

In modern Russian, in addition to inflected adjectives, there are also non-inflected adjectives (or in other words, adjectives without a morphological characteristic), which include words like burgundy , khaki , beige , flash (we are talking mainly about borrowed words).

Examples from the Russian National Corpus:

In England's war with them, the color uniform khaki was first used. [Intellectual games "Z-S" // "Knowledge is power", 2003]

Sewn with a trapezoid, to the floor, with large sleeves raglan , he greatly enlarged the stage silhouette. [Sati Spivakova. Not everything (2002)]

But now he has an exceptional apartment, just a general's, school , at sea sk st , at so n st ). New adjectives are also formed by adding ( railway , Russian-Czech , light brown ), a non-morphological compound of two words: undersigned persons = undersigned , above address = or so-called. adjectivation (transition of participles into adjectives), for example. outstanding successes , laughing eyes .

From a syntactical point of view, adjectives usually perform the function of defining or the nominal part of the predicate.

6.
1 Lexico-grammatical groups (categories) of adjectives
According to their meaning, adjectives in Russian are divided into three lexical and grammatical categories:

quality adjectives ( funny , smart , big , small ),

relative adjectives ( iron , stone , rustic ),

possessive adjectives

Qualitative adjectives designate qualitative features of an object, person or thing : Form and position ( straight , steep ), dimensions ( low - high , large small , Narrow wide ), characteristics ( STRICTION OF THE OF , cold - hot , sweet - bitter ), character traits ( evil - kind , gullible - suspicious)0395 sick - healthy , young - old , smart - stupid ).

Due to the fact that qualitative adjectives denote a changing, non-permanent feature, these adjectives have degrees of comparison , for example. high - above ( over / less high ) - highest ( highest / above all , above all ). Other for degrees of comparison, see 8.

Qualitative adjectives can have short form and long form , for example. sick - sick , young - young , smart - smart , other. for short and long forms, see 7.

Qualitative adjectives can form phrases with the words very , very , much , extremely , is not at all , is not at all, etc.: is very large , is very smart , is much stronger than , is extremely interesting , is by no means stupid .

Relative adjectives , in contrast to qualitative ones, designate a constant, unchanging attribute , therefore these adjectives do not have degrees of comparison. Relative adjectives designate a sign through the relation of a given object (person) to other objects, signs, states, for example. student residence (= "student residence"), reading room (= "reading room / where one can read"), morning newspaper (= "newspaper that came out / comes out in the morning").

Most relative adjectives are formed from nouns, hence the meaning of relative adjectives - "the designation of a feature through the relationship of a given object (person) to other objects, features, states": seaport ( sea formed sea with the suffix -sk- ), eye doctor , wooden table , silverware , plastic window .

Relative adjectives can only have a full form, i. e. marine , eye , wooden etc.

Relative adjectives include adjectives denoting materials, colors, etc.: glass , leather , blue , lilac , black , green .

Possessive adjectives designate an individual or generic affiliation, an individual or generic attribute, for example. Petin suit , fox hole , mother's bag . Usually these adjectives answer the question whose ? (cf.: qualitative and relative adjectives answer the question which one?) and have their own special indicators:

special suffixes -ov- , -in- , -ij- (-j-) : fathers , sisters , foxes 5
In the nominative case of the only and multiple number of possessive adjectives, the end of short forms appears: fathers , sisters , foxes Ottsova , , fox fox , fox foxes. 5 sisters , foxes - paternal , sisters , foxes .

Russian surnames with Formant -ov- , -in - / -yn- In their origin are the attractive adjectives ( Petrov , Kozlov , Vdinov ).

Forms ending in -ov- , -in- in Russian compete with genitive forms 9. In modern Russian, possessive constructions with the genitive case are used much more often than possessive adjective forms, i.e. father's shoes , mother's bag , Natasha's coat .

Czech type combinations Gorkého ulice , Puškinův institut ruského jazyka , Masarykova univerzita are translated into Russian either using the possessive construction with the genitive case , or using a special construction with the word named after : Gorkogo street , Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language , Masaryk University Avšak Karlova univerzita = Charles University . Pushkin , University. Masaryk .

Examples from the Russian National Corpus:

But such glare all around, so non-fussy unrestored, homely, county Gogol street , so good that you can do it without coffee. [Tatyana Solomatina. My Odessa language (2011)]

After reconstruction, the library named after May 1 was opened on Gagarin Square in Moscow. [Vyacheslav Surikov. Culture // Expert, 2015]

The boundaries between the lexico-grammatical categories of adjectives are mobile , which means that as a result of semantic development or polysemy, adjectives can move from one lexical-grammatical category to another. Most often, relative adjectives go into the category of qualitative ones, for example. golden ring (= gold ring, relative adjective), golden hands (= skilled hands, figurative, qualitative adjective), heart of gold (= kind, quality adjective), golden words (= clever words, quality adjective).

Next, we give an example from the textbook of the modern Russian language (Modern Russian language 2016, 60):

attraction adj. Rel. adj. Quality adj.

bear paw ( lair ) bear coat ( cap ) bear walk , bear service , fox character , fish blood , hare courage etc.

(= “Belts the Bear” ) (“Not belongs to the bear, A made from the bear ”)

( Lisya Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norah Norya ( fox collar )

Tasks

1

Form possessive adjectives from the following phrases.

2

Divide the following adjectives into qualitative and relative, justify your answer.
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