tell me please about the characteristics of adjective and how is it formed?

Answer 1

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adjectve.html

Answer 2

you can identify adjectives 3 ways:

Semantically, Related forms, and Distributionally.


Semantics deals with meaning: so, elementary standards describe adjectives as being able to describe nouns: Blue coat. Blue is describing the color of the coat, wherein coat is the noun.


Related forms deal with comparisons basically: entails comparative and superlative forms: Comparative use is seen when comparing ONLY 2 things/persons.

Tom has blue eyes but Kim's eyes are bluer.

The superlative use is seen when comparing 3 or MORE things/persons.

Tom has blue eyes but kim has bluer eyes, however, Kate has the Bluest of them all.


The third way to identfy adjectives is distributionally,where it is the adjective is placed.

adjectives usually follow the definite article "the": like the Blue person, the Red jacket, the Yellow cab. The bluest tree, even, a blue dog, a red light. also you can use most, more to see if it's an adjective like most pretty, more prettier etc...

formation of adjectives or any word , has to do with morphology, the way words are constructed.

so, in the word Bluest, it would contain one morpheme (the smallest unit of grammatical formation) you can't break it down any further. You can't break Blu and est down. Blu doesn't have meaning within the English language.

A is one morpheme, it's also an indefinite article under determiners

Take for instance Impossible. This word has 2 morphemes: IM and POSSIBLE, both constructions have meaning in the English Language.

Hope this helped.

Answer 3

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Adjectives describe, or limit, a noun. So, for example, you have 'a house'; if you say 'a big house' the adjective is adding something to the noun 'house.'

In English, the adjective does not change according to the noun: so you say 'a big house' and 'big houses'

In the Romance languages - Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc., the adjective agrees with (changes, according to) the noun that it limits.

There is no regular formation of adjectives in English - you have to learn them individually.

Answer 4

Adjective is a word that names a quality like: clever, large, small, beautiful, ugly, nice, rich, poor and so on. How they are formed? Well you just have to learn them. Have a nice day or night (midsummer day) wherever you are.