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SOME EASY ADJECTIVES The adjectives marked with an asterisk, in
the list below, have the positive, comparative and superlative forms as in the
following examples: able
abler
ablest airy
airier
airiest bare
barer
barest base
baser
basest bold
bolder
boldest able*
acid aged
airy* anal
arid ashy*
avid baby
bald* bare*
bent best
blue* bold*
bony* bonier
boniest bulk
busy* calm*
chic cold*
cool* cute*
daft* damn
damp* dank*
dark* dead*
deaf* dear*
deep* deft*
dour dozy*
drab** dual
dull* dumb*
edgy* epic
even evil
fair* fast*
fine* firm*
flat* fond*
foul free*
full* gamy*
gamier gamiest glad* glib*
glum* gory*
grim** hale*
hard* hazy*
idle* inky*
July June
kind* lacy*
lame* lank*
last late*
lazy* lean*
left lewd*
lone long*
lost loud*
lush male
mass mild*
near* neat*
nice* numb
oily* oilier
oiliest open
oral oval
pale* peak
poor* posh*
puny pure*
racy* rash*
real rear
rosy* safe*
side slow*
smug* sole
sore* spry
sprier spryest sure* tall*
tame* tart*
taut* tidy*
tiny* trim**
true* ugly*
warm* weak*
wiry* wise*
work worn
zero zoom
ADJECTIVES THAT LOOK LIKE ADVERBS beastly
bubbly
chilly costly
crumbly
daily friendly
likely
lively lonely
saintly
silly lonely
lordly
lovely miserly
niggardly
nightly pimply
sickly
silly ugly
unholy
unlikely weekly
wobbly
woolly She
is such a happy and bubbly character. It
was a chilly stare that the general gave me. That
was a costly mistake I never want to
repeat. God
give us our daily bread. Friendly
sales people succeed in their business. Note: You will need to use the following adverbs with
adjectives of two and more syllables to form the comparative and superlative
forms:- good
better
best bad
worse
worst far
further
furthest little
less
least much / many
more
most ADJECTIVES OF TWO OR MORE SYLLABLES:- amazing
astonishing
beautiful boring
exciting
expensive famous
interesting
passionate tedious
terrifying
thankful unusual
vital
wonderful ADJECTIVES THAT HAVE NO COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORMS: complete
chief
endless eternal
final
ideal
main
ultimate
universal unique EXERCISE: Complete the following adjectival phrases: black
and bl . . .
bold and beauti . . . calm
and coll . . .
cold and win . . . dour
and gl . . .
fair and fo . . . fine
and dan . . .
first and fore . . . frail
and ag . . .
free and ea . . . full
and fas . . .
grim and go . . . hale
and hear . . .
idle and do . . . kind
and lost
and lon . . .
neat and ti . . . pale
and ash . . .
prim and pro . . . safe and sou . . .
short and swe . . . sick and tir . . .
sore
and tir . . .
ADJECTIVES THAT LOOK LIKE
PRONOUNS Some adjectives look almost like possessive pronouns.
While pronouns stand on their own, adjectives must modify
nouns or pronouns. Possessive Adjectives & Possessive Pronouns Possessive Pronoun
Possessive Adjective mine
my yours
your his / hers / its
his / her / its ours
our theirs
their This bat is mine.
This is my bat.
This packet is yours.
This is your packet. That house is his.
That is his house. The camera is hers.
This is her camera. The opportunity is ours.
It is our opportunity. Give them that which is theirs.
We loved their home. Demonstrative Adjectives Demonstrative Pronouns
Demonstrative Adjectives
This is your chance.
This chance will not come again. That is the problem.
She solved that problem. These are our horses.
These horses need to be stabled. Give me six of those.
Those bats are what I bought. Interrogative Adjectives Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative Adjectives Which are my books?
Which books are mine? What are you sewing?
Which dress are you sewing? Indefinite Adjectives Indefinite Pronouns
Indefinite Adjectives Many were the cats I saw.
Many cats were seen. Any will do.
Any hat is better than no hat. Few were the bargains.
Few bargains were on offer All are welcome.
All friends are welcome. Remember the biblical: Many are called but few are
chosen. ADJECTIVAL PHRASES FROM VERBS: bombed villages
bonded stock burned fields
carded lace cured patients
dropped catches drugged animal
failed expedition feared enemy
freed hostage heated argument
linked accounts listed shares
loaned books loved possessions
marked man noted pianist
packed sandwiches parked cars
planned meeting rested horses
stifled cry tended flock
tested solution walled gardens
wanted person warmed food
yoked oxen
ADJECTIVES IN USE 1. RIDING
WITH It was such
a merry time. The brown squirrels in the dark trees at the
sides of the winding road and a black crow passing overhead must
have been surprised at the peals of loud laughter. The oxen too twitched
back their stolid ears to listen. The merriment was coming from the men
who were clearing up the crude log barn. Another group outside was
looking up at the bleak sky, wetting their fingers and testing the icy
wind. In the meanwhile, the yoking of the oxen went on. The world
seemed beautiful as Sally and Sally and
Hannibal made slow haste through the snow. There was no need to hurry. In
any event she hadn’t a care in the world. Soon enough they would be home.
Meanwhile she and the little bear slid through the snow on their sleigh.
They went up to the brow of the snow-covered hill, round a clump of leafless
trees, over the frozen river, across the wide clearing, under the overhanging
rocks and finally into the yard of the house. Adapted
from: Away Goes Sally by Elizabeth Coatsworth. 2. THE
SPECKLED BAND It was a singular
sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a dark lantern with the
shutters half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron
safe, the door of which was ajar. Beside this table, on a wooden
chair, sat Dr Roylott, clad in a long grey dressing-gown,
his bare ankles protruding beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless
Turkish slippers. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long
lash which he had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upwards, and his
eyes were fixed in a dreadful rigid stare at the corner of the
ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar band, with brownish
speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his head. ‘The band!
the speckled band! whispered Holmes. I took a
step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began to move, and there
reared itself from among his hair the squat diamond shaped-head
and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. Adapted from
The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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