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 ....
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 [...]
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Attributive adjectives after nouns
Most adjectives can go in two main places in a sentence: in attributive position and predicative position. In attributive position, an adjective comes before the noun it modifies. She is a nice girl. She married a rich businessman. In predicative position, an adjective goes after the verb. She is nice. He looked upset. While attributive
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Adjectives are often used without nouns. To refer to some well-known groups of people The structure the + adjective is used to talk about some well-known groups of people. Examples are: the blind, the deaf, the unemployed, the rich, the poor, the young, the old, the dead etc. He is collecting money for the blind.
