Adjective
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An adjective is a name for a word that describes a noun. Nouns are words that mean a place, a person, or a thing. An adjective is a word that gives more information about the noun that it goes with. In English, the adjective comes before the noun it describes.
Some examples, with the adjective in bold:
- I like blue skies and fluffy clouds.
- He is a kind man.
- It was a cold day.
Sometimes an adjective is not followed by a noun:
- The sky is blue.
- The joke she told was so funny, I could not stop laughing all day.
- He went crazy.
It's still an adjective, because we could have "the blue sky", "the funny joke", and "the crazy man".
Sometimes we have different forms of the same adjective. If one joke is more funny than another joke, then that joke is funnier. This is called the comparative form of the adjective. The day that is colder than any other is the coldest day. This is the superlative form of "cold". Some adjectives need additional words when we want to compare them. For instance, one car may be cheaper than another, but the second car may be more reliable. (We use "more reliable", instead of "reliabler".)
