Subject: English
An adjective is a word used to add something to the meaning of a noun or a pronoun. For an example: Sincere friend, sincere is an adjective. Similarly, my aunt, my is an adjective.
Adjectives can be of six kinds:
We can form adjectives from:
Suffix | Word | Adjective |
able | advise honour memory terror comfort | advisable honourable memorable terrible comfortable |
al | accident crime nation navy centre | accidental criminal national naval central |
ar | angel table circle | angular tabular circular |
ful | beauty duty harm peace thought | beautiful dutiful harmful peaceful thoughtful |
ic | angel hero science | angelic heroic scientific |
y | anger ease flower hand need | angry easy flowery handly needy |
ly | brother day king world | brotherly daily kingly worldly |
Adjectives of quality have three degrees of comparison. They are:positive, comparative, superlative.
For example:
Positive | Comparitive | Superlative |
tall | taller | tallest |
easy | easier | easiest |
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