网站公告
点击问题反馈。微信登陆的用户请及时在个人中心设置登陆密码，并且牢记自己的用户名。
头像上传问题点击此处

2014-11-19

[语法和写作] 英语语法原来这么简单之二

今天介绍的是形容词Adjectives。

Grammar Is Great

Added Extra

Sometimes a noun on its own just doesn’t give you enoughdetail-you want to add information. To add information to a noun, you use aword called an ‘adjective’. Think of it as an added extra describe the noun.

Using Adjectives

Suppose you have to describe a building, and you want to tellpeople what the building is like – you’ll need to use adjective. You mustdescribe an old,ruined building, or a scary, abandoned building. ‘old’,‘ruined’, ‘scary’ and‘abandoned’ are adjectives.

Grammar Guidance. An adjective goes before the noun it isdescribing, like this:

a blue moon

a gorgeous girl

a grumpy teacher

the top floor

an ugly bug.

Small, Smaller, Smallest…

Some adjective can be used to make a comparison. There are twokinds-a ‘comparative‘ one and a 'superlative' one. Use the comparative when youcompare two things, for example:

My pudding is smaller than yours.

A comparative adjective always goes hand in hand with ‘than’.You should use a superlative adjective when you are comparing several things,as in:

My pudding is smallest out of three.

Here are some more examples:

Adjective

Comparative

Superlative

small

smaller

smallest

big

bigger

biggest

large

larger

largest

narrow

narrower

narrowest

pale

paler

palest

rich

richer

richest

easy

easier

easiest

Grammar Guidance. Adjective that have more than twosyllable, such as ‘beautiful’ and ‘popular’, do not follow the same rule.Forexample, there’s no such thing as ‘beautifuller’ and ‘beautifullest’. For theseadjectives, you should always use the words ‘more’ and ‘than’ to make yourcomparison. For example:

Your painting is more beautiful than mine.

To make the superlative, you should use ‘most’:

Your painting is the most beautiful out of everyone’s.

This rule also works for any adjective ending in‘-ous’,‘-ing’ or ‘-ed’, such as ‘famous’, ‘boring’ or ‘excited’.

Rule-Breakers

Lastly, there are a few adjectives which break all therules. Here are a few examples:

Adjective

Comparative

Superlative

bad

worse

worst