ADJECTIVES
Adjectives are the building blocks of vivid descriptions in any language.
Adjectives
Imagine words as detectives in a story, each with a specific role to play. While nouns introduce the characters and places, adjectives are like the detail detectives, zooming in to describe them vividly.
- Noun: Dog (tells you what, but not much else)
- Adjective + Noun: Fluffy dog (now you know the dog is soft and cuddly!)
- More Adjectives + Noun: Fluffy, playful, brown dog (you have a vivid picture in your mind!)
Types of Adjectives
- Descriptive Detectives: These are the most common, describing qualities like...
- Color: Bright, blue, purple, shimmering
- Size: Tiny, gigantic, massive, miniature
- Shape: Square, round, jagged, spiky
- Feel: Soft, smooth, rough, bumpy
- Sound: Loud, quiet, booming, whispering
- Taste: Sweet, salty, spicy, bitter
- Smell: Fragrant, pungent, musty, floral
- Demonstrative Detectives: They point out specific things like...
- This book, that house, these cookies, those mountains
- Interrogative Detectives: They ask questions like...
- What color is the sky? Which cake is yours? Whose bag is this?
More Examples
- Feeling: joyful, nervous, sleepy, curious, bored
- Time: early, late, long, short, quick
- Temperature: hot, cold, chilly, sweaty, sunny
- Movement: fast, slow, graceful, clumsy, jerky
- Taste: delicious, disgusting, bitter, sweet, tangy
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