The Complete Guide to ADJECTIVES in English

While adjectives seem like a simple part of speech, they can be very confusing. This is because adjectives can be presented in many different ways including simple adjectives, adjective clauses, and adjectival phrases. Each category also has sub-categories. In this video, we look all the different types of adjectives and how to use them effectively. Take the quiz on this lesson here: https://www.engvid.com/the-complete-g... Subscribe to my writing channel, ‪@WritetotheTop‬ ! Watch the videos I mention in this lesson: Adjective clauses:    • Learn English Grammar: The Adjective Claus...   Copulas:    • English Grammar: Linking Verbs (Copula)   In this lesson: 0:00 English Grammar: ALL the Adjective Types 0:44 Simple Adjective Types 6:44 Participle Adjectives 9:49 Adjective Clauses 12:13 Adjective Phrases Transcript: Hi, everybody. Welcome to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. In today's video, I'm going to show you all the adjective types. Now, the reason I'm doing this is someone asked me what's the difference between an adjective clause and an adjective phrase, and I realized that I could make a much better lesson if I showed you all the adjective types so that you can always recognize them in a sentence and understand how to use them and basically what is happening in the sentence. So, I put these into three categories that I'm going to discuss. We're going to have simple adjectives, and there are 13 of them, and I'll show you what those are. Adjective clauses and adjective phrases. Okay? So, let's start with the simple adjectives, and keep in mind that this word "simple", this is just my word. They're actually not that simple, so just make sure you understand. Also, I'm going to give you some sort of technical names for all of these adjectives. If you look at different grammar books, they may use different words. They may use limiting adjectives or - what's another one? They use determiners. All of these are fine. Don't worry about the technical word, the technical grammar words. Make sure you understand what is actually happening. It's more important to understand that than the technical grammar terms which don't actually mean anything because you won't use them, except in English class. So, let's start. So, I'm going to call this one "descriptive". "Descriptive" is the common adjective that everybody knows. It's also called "attributive" because you're giving a noun an attribute, right? Because this is what adjectives do. In all forms, an adjective modifies a noun. It changes a noun, or it gives it more character or identity, etc. So, when you're just describing something, a big dog, or a small child, a heavy box, all kinds of things just to give it a little bit of character, a little bit of colour. Then we have the "demonstrative" adjectives, also called "demonstrative pronouns". This cat, these people, those houses, etc. You're pointing to something. That's why they're also called the "pronouns". A "compound" is basically a combination of two words. Now, in this case, in this example, "fat-free milk", "fat" and "free" are both adjectives joined by a hyphen, and they create a one-word adjective. This is considered... This is considered now one word to modify the noun "milk". But you can also have an adjective and a noun. You can have an adjective and a participle. You can have all different types of compounds that work together as an adjective. That's why they're called "compounds". "Quantitative", basically numbers. So, "two men", "the whole cake", etc. You're basically talking about the quantity of something. A "predicate" adjective is the adjective that comes after the verb, but it's going to be a copula verb or a "be" verb. So, "he seems nice", "he is nice". So, the "nice" describes the subject "he", not the verbs. So, it's not an adverb, even though it's coming after the verb. Right? And if you're not entirely sure how to use copula verbs, or even what copula verbs are, I made a video about this. There's a link up there. You can review this grammar point, and then come back here to see the adjectives again. "Comparatives" and "superlatives", basically "er" or "est", "a taller boy", "a tallest girl". And we can also have comparative and superlative phrases, which I'll show you later. As soon as you have more than one word, you're already creating a phrase. Now, there's another simple adjective called a "coordinate", like "the big and loud dog", but "big" and "loud", now you have a phrase, which is why I didn't include it here. I'll talk about that when we look at phrases. Proper adjectives, just like proper nouns, you're talking about a name. So, in this case, "Canadian maple", as opposed to "Japanese maple". So, you can have country names, city names, people names, a Shakespearean play, Parisian night, etc. All kinds of different things, as long as it's the name and it has the capital at the beginning, even in the middle of the sentence. […]