🎯 Adjectives

🧱 1. What is an Adjective?

An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
It gives information about what something is like.
In linguistic terms, an adjective modifies a noun.

Examples:

  • A beautiful painting
  • An ugly one
  • The old house

🧭 2. Where Do Adjectives Go?

Adjectives usually come:

  • Before a noun
    a scary dog
  • After linking verbs (like be, seem, feel, become), as subject complements (attribut du sujet).
    I feel cold.
    She became famous.
    You are amazing.

🚦 3. Order of Adjectives

When we use more than one adjective before a noun, we usually follow this order:

👉 Size → Age → Colour → Origin → Material

Examples:
    a tiny brown cotton teddy-bear (size, colour, material).
    a big brand-new yellow car (size, age, colour).

A more comprehensive theory may include these categories:

👉 Opinion → Size → Age → Shape → Colour → Origin → Material

Examples
     I carried a very small black suitcase (size, colour).
     They have some old French paintings (age, origin).
     She was wearing a new red silk dress (age, colour, material).
     That is a really ugly wooden chair (opinion, material).
     There are some new Chinese students in the class (age, origin).

💡 Opinion is subjective, and material is more objective.

💡 4. Adjectives Do Not Change

Unlike other languages (like French or Spanish), English adjectives:

  • ❌ Do not change for gender → a brave man / a brave woman
  • ❌ Do not change for number → a red apple / two red apples

🧠 5. Quick Practice

Put the adjectives in the correct order:

  1. A ___ ___ ___ ___ hat (green / old / funny / small)

    Show Answer A funny small old green hat

  2. A ___ ___ ___ ___ vase (glass / beautiful / French / round)

    Show AnswerA beautiful round French glass vase

  3. Two ___ ___ ___ chairs (metal / uncomfortable / large)

    Show AnswerTwo uncomfortable large metal chairs

  4. A ___ ___ ___ ___ car (American / black / fast / new)

    Show Answer A fast new black American car

  5. A ___ ___ ___ ___ bag (leather / small / stylish / Italian)

    Show Answer A stylish small Italian leather bag

✅ Summary

  • Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns.
  • Usually come before the noun.
  • Do not change for gender or number.
  • Use the correct order when combining several.