Mistakes in the use of adjectives

Here is a list of errors that ESL students often make in the use of adjectives. Incorrect: She is more stronger than her sister. Correct: She is stronger than her sister. Avoid double comparatives. Adjectives of one syllable usually form their comparatives by adding –er to the positive. Longer adjectives take more. Incorrect: Bombay is ....

Position of adjectives

Adjectives usually go before the nouns they modify. She is a nice girl. (Here the adjective nice modifies the noun girl and goes before it.) He is an intelligent boy. That was a clever idea. When two or more adjectives come before a noun, they are usually separated by commas. A large, round table A [...]

Correct use of some adjectives

The adjective can be correctly used with a verb when some quality of the subject, rather the action of the verb, is to be expressed. These flowers smell sweet. (NOT These flowers smell sweetly.) It tastes sour. (NOT It tastes sourly.) The plural forms these and those are often used with the singular nouns kind

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Adjective Phrases

 

Distributives

 

Attributive adjectives after nouns

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