adjectives. Take a look

at these sentences: She's a beautiful singer

He became poor after the war. Both the underlined words are

what we call it adjectives. In this lesson

I'm going to show you what adjectives exactly are. I'm going to explain something

about the construction, which we call

the + adjective and I'm going to take you through some common

confusables. What are adjectives?

Adjectives give information about

a noun or a pronoun so a noun can be dog, cat

and a pronoun can be

he, she, it, him, her etc.

This information can either be

one word or an entire

clause or phrase. And a clause or a phrase is

a part of a sentenc.e For example he's

talented. Talented says something about the pronoun he.

My trousers are white.

White says something about my trousers

my trousers here being a noun.

My aunt, who is quite old, came to vist us.

here the underlines who is quite old

can also be concerned as an adjective,

because it says something extra about

my aunt. Here it is

a clause and we call it

a relative clause here. Now where do we place adjectives?

We place adjectives generally before a noun.

For example: He's a talented football player.

My right leg is broken.

Leg is the noun, right is the adjective.

We place the adjective after a verb

when it is part of a predicate and predicate

are all the verbs in a sentence.

For example: This building can never be old.

Old obviuosly says something about the building,

but because we have a predicate here so

several verbs and it is part of the predicate,

we put it at the end sentence. Now let's take a look

at the + adjective structure.

When describing a certain group

the 'the + adjective' construction is used. For example:

The English eat a hearty breakfast.

Or the rich get richer every year, while the poor get poorer.

So we use this for an entire group so this could also be

the French, the Dutch, the Thai

the Chinese, the Brazilians, for example.

Now let's take a look at some common confusables.

For instance the word poor. He is a poor boy.

so this means he has no money but Her hearing is poor

This means she can't hear very well.

Also the word 'small':

Their farm is small says something about the size but they are small farmers

this does not mean that there's very little people

but it says something about their farm

occupation so they probably have a small piece of land which they work on

also the word mean. He's mean with his money

obviously means that he doesn't like to spend his money

but he's a mean man means that he's not kind.

I thank you for your attention

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