March 2017 | FLwICT 2015- 2017 | Erasmus + Issue 1
IN ENGLISH
We use adjectives to describe nouns.
Most adjectives can be used in front of a noun …:
They have a beautiful house. We saw a very exciting film last night.
or after a link verb like be, look or feel:
Their house is beautiful. That film looks interesting.
-ing or – ed?
A lot of adjectives are made from verbs by adding-ing or-ed:-ing adjectives: The commonest-ing adjectives are:
amusing shocking surprising frightening interesting disappointing exciting tiring worrying boring terrifying annoying
Contents
This issue:
Basic information about adjectives
What is an adjective? 1 Adjectives“ ing” or“ ed”?? 2 Types of adjectives 3 Order of adjectives 4 Comparatives and superlatives 5 Link verbs 6 Intensifiers 7
Next issue:
Opinion adjectives Personality adjectives Describing a person
If you call something interesting you mean it interests you. If you call something frightening you mean it frightens you.
I read a very interesting article in the newspaper today. That Dracula film was absolutely terrifying.
-ed adjectives: The commonest – ed adjectives are: Annoyed, bored, frightened, worried, tired, closed, excited, delighted, disappointed
If something annoys you, you can say you feel annoyed. If something interests you, you can say you are interested.
The children had nothing to do. They were bored.