English

Practical English Grammar

the adjective

The adjective, the third of the eight parts of speech, modifies (qualifies or
limits the meaning of) a noun or pronoun. An adjective can answer any one
of these questions: What kind? Which one? How many? or How much?

In addition to regular adjectives such as tall, muscular, beautiful, and intell-
igent, there are two specific types of adjectives—the proper adjective and the
compound adjective.

➲ A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun. Examples of proper
adjectives include French onion soup, the Belgian detective, Orwellian
philosophy, and the Kenyan landscape.

➲ A compound adjective is composed of two or more words. Examples include part-time referee, eight-foot tree, and fifteen-year-old musician.

➲ Note: Do not hyphenate an adjective preceding an adverb that ends in -ly. Some of these instances are smartly dressed politician and nicely groomed model.

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Notes

Practical English Grammar - Notes

1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets

2. Quotation Marks Part Three

3. compound subjects part two

4. Second Capitalization List

5. Confusing usage words part six

6. Sound a like words Part Four

7. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

8. the noun

9. complete and simple subjects

10. the adverb

11. the object of the preposition

12. Confusing usage words part three

13. More Apostrophe Situations

14. the indirect object

15. irregular verbs part two

16. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

17. agreement involving prepositional phrases

18. the prepositional phrase

19. the noun clause

20. The possessive case

21. Confusing usage words part two

22. Quotation Marks Part Two

23. complex sentences

24. the adjective phrase

25. the verb

26. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents

27. subject verb agreement situations

28. the preposition

29. the subordinating conjunction

30. complete and simple predicates

31. The nominative case

32. the adverb clause

33. Confusing usage words part seven

34. The Colon

35. Using Capital Letters

36. The possessive case

37. types of sentences by purpose

38. subject and verb agreement

39. the direct object

40. Confusing usage words part three

41. Active and passive voices

42. The verb be

43. More subject verb agreement situations

44. the correlative conjunction

45. compound subject and compound predicate

46. reflexive demonstrative and interrogative pronouns

47. sentences fragments and run on sentences

48. The possessive case and pronouns

49. the gerund and gerund phrase

50. the infinitive and infinitive phrase