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Title: Adjectives


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Adjectives
  • Describe nouns and pronouns.
  • An adjective can come before the word it
    describes
  • A lively student and a tired teacher.
  • Or it can come after
  • The coffee was hot and the cake was delicious.

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Comparatives
  • To compare two nouns or pronouns
  • This book is old, but that one is older.
  • That woman is beautiful, but this one is more
    beautiful.

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Superlatives
  • To compare three or more
  • My car is old my neighbours is older, but my
    husbands is the oldest.
  • Maths is interesting literature is more
    interesting, but linguistics is the most
    interesting.

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NOTE FOR SWEDES
  • The Swedish absolute comparative is unusual in
    English.
  • En bättre middag a rather good dinner
  • En mindre summa pengar a small amount of money

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Later or latter?
  • Later is the normal form.
  • Is there a later bus?
  • Latter is more formal and used to show order.
  • The latter half of term.

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Last or latest?
  • Last refers to the final one.
  • Many people believe The Tempest to be
    Shakespeares last play.
  • Latest refers to the most recent.
  • The Naming of the Dead is Ian Rankins latest
    novel.

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Modifiers
  • You can put one of these before most
    adjectives
  • very, enormously, extremely, terribly, most,
    surprisingly, too, much too, unusually
  • fairly, rather, pretty
  • a little, a bit, somewhat

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Enough
  • Note that enough comes after the adjective
  • Is your coffee strong enough?
  • Have I explained this well enough?

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Fill in the missing word!
  • Some Swedish phrases require an extra word in
    English
  • Guess what Ive been doing during the past few
    weeks!
  • Hes got his own flat in town.
  • This example is much longer than the previous
    one.

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Before or after?
  • Some adjectives can come before or after the
    noun they refer to, but with a change in meaning.
  • The present students (nuvarande)
  • The students present (närvarande)

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  • The concerned parents (bekymrade)
  • The parents concerned (berörda)
  • The responsible teacher (ansvarskännande)
  • The teacher responsible (ansvarige)

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The good, the bad and the ugly!
  • Some adjectives can be used as nouns. These
    are called substantive adjectives.
  • In the plural, in a general sense, they refer
    to everyone in a category
  • The unemployed demand work.

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  • In the singular, when we are specific, we have
    to add a noun
  • The unemployed man claimed benefit.

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  • In the singular, in a general sense, we refer to
    abstract phenomena
  • Ive always been interested in the unknown.

15
  • In some phrases we have to add a word, such as
    thing or part
  • The important thing is to do your best.
  • The sad part of it is that I really liked her.

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Some adjectives have become nouns
  • These take the s plural and can have the
    (in)definite article
  • The blacks, the whites, the reds, the Greens
  • The Conservatives, the Liberals
  • A drunk, a friendly, an international

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Nationality adjectives
  • Always begin with a capital letter!
  • In some cases, where the connection to
    nationality is not obvious, we can use small
    letters
  • french fries, go dutch, swede, china

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The English The Englishmen?
  • In a general sense, referring to the nation, we
    use the form the English
  • The Scots beat the English at Wembley.

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  • When we refer to specific people we use the form
    the Englishmen
  • The Englishmen at the conference went home early.

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Order of adjectives
  • When using two or more adjectives, note the word
    order
  • Subjective opinion size age form colour
    origin material NOUN
  • A charming, little, old, square, red, Swedish,
    wooden cottage.
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