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Adjectives are words expressing properties and characteristics of objects (e.g. blue, simple, progressive, etc.) and, hence, qualifying nouns. Grammatically, four features are generally considered to be characteristic of
adjectives:
1) their syntactic function of attributes;
2) their syntactic function of predicatives;
3) their taking of adverbial modifiers of degree (e.g. very);
4) their only grammatical category — the degrees of comparison.
Adjectives in English do not change for number or case.
Morphological Composition
Simple adjectives — old, kind, bad, good, etc.
Derived adjectives. Many adjectives are formed from other parts of speech by
adding different suffixes:
-able: comfortable; -ic: atomic;
-ible: visible; -ish: childish;
-ant: elegant; -ive: attractive;
-ent: dependent; -ful: careful;
-al: cultural; -less: careless;
-ly: brotherly, friendly; -ous: dangerous;
-y: dirty, sleepy
Some past participles ending in -ed (e.g. excited) and some present participles
ending in -ing (e.g. exciting) are used as adjectives. Common pairs of -ed/-ing adjectives are: amazed / amazing; annoyed / annoying; bored / boring, enchanted / enchanting.
Compound adjectives. They are used with hyphens: grass-green, deaf-mute, blue-eyed; long-legged; fair-haired.
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