- Opinion An opinion adjective explains what you think about something
(other people may not agree with you). Examples:
silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult
- Size A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is.
Examples:
large, tiny, enormous, little
- Age An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is.
Examples:
ancient, new, young, old
- Shape A shape adjective describes the shape of something.
Examples:
square, round, flat, rectangular
- Colour A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something.
Examples:
blue, pink, reddish, grey
- Origin An origin adjective describes where something comes from.
Examples:
French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek
- MaterialA material adjective describes what something is made from.
Examples:
wooden, metal, cotton, paper
- purpose A purpose
adjective describes what something is used for.
These adjectives often end with "-ing".
Examples:
sleeping (as in "sleeping bag"), roasting (as in "roasting tin")
This comes right before the noun because it really is part of the noun. Like a compound noun.
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Adjectives used to compare things
We often use adjectives to compare things
Some adjectives are absolute and so we can only classify things
but not compare things.
Eg: unique, ultraviolet, biological.
We can't say that something is more unique than another thing.
Either something is unique or it isn't.
Some adjectives are extreme adjectives.
With these adjectives we don't use very. Eg: Huge (Not Very huge).
This is because Huge=Very big.
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