adjectives

     

An ajective, in grammar, is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjective's head), giving more information about to what the noun or pronoun refers. Some examples can be seen in the box to the right. Collectively, adjectives form one of the traditional eight parts of speech, though linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that used to be considered adjectives but that are now recognized to be different. It derives from the Latin words ad and iacere (Latin words that start with an I change to a J in English); literally, to throw to.

Trivia about adjectives

  • Esperanto adverbs generally end in "E"; these words, like bela for "beautiful", in "A"

Tweets about adjectives

  • @CoteNusher I'd like to add beautiful to the list of adjectives ;)
  • @imaginator1dx tell us three adjectives that describe After :) #After
  • @txvoodoo no, tricoter is knit in the loose sense of knitting. we do NOT have verbs for knit & purl. we have adjectives for stitches
  • If you could please go on and put in the best adjectives to describe me!! Duplicates are allowed thanks!
  • This is important. Stop using mental illnesses as adjectives
  • And also how some of the negative adjectives would be positives for men, but not for women. Hmm...
  • I've literally been trying to conjugate adjectives for the past 20 minutes
  • It seems to me a lot more of the negative personality adjectives would be used to describe solely women.
  • Positive personality adjectives: https://t.co/KoLC0YLaEM Negative personality adjectives: https://t.co/0JG9IDgNuE
  • 51 french adjectives to learn for tomorrow's french test, I've learned 11 and it's 10:30 right I can do this
  • How do you tell if a chef is French? He/she will have have more adjectives about the dish than ingredients.
  • @staceynemeth LOL loving the use of those adjectives bbz that was A* English work
  • RT @NaeBorder: The New Scottish Thesaurus: London, Westminster, English, Metropolitan - adjectives to describe people who disagree with Ale…
  • @imaginator1dx Anna tell us three adjectives that describe After :)
  • RT @TTAddicted: When adjectives aren't enough, shall we use a sound?! #unf @RickyRomanXXX
  • RT @SchoolDirect_EH: @HenryLMYL @Sarah__wright1 @literacylender @alanpeat @dmandrews15 love the use of adjectives and the sense of forebodi…
  • Disturbing, upsetting, jarring... 36 hrs of adjectives. All true. But exactly what did people think domestic violence looked like?
  • I wonder if Apple executives ever get tired of spewing the exact same adjectives every single year over and over again
  • We had to pick 10 adjectives to describe ourself in bio but tf?? I can only think of 3?
  • RT @Helton1Jacob: “@AHSBarons: Mrs. Halcomb's Spanish 2 students reviewed the use of adjectives by playing Guess Who.
  • @How2BeAFlower monday mornings = all the bad adjectives u can imagine (just like Joffrey)
  • somebody give me 4 adjectives that describe me
  • @SimonMarshall6 People have tremendously short memories, and also a propensity for hyperbole, which renders so many adjectives meaningless.
  • “@AHSBarons: Mrs. Halcomb's Spanish 2 students reviewed the use of adjectives by playing Guess Who. @TylerStewart44
  • "I'll be Doc." "Fine, I'll be Grumpy." "Sleepy." "Happy." "Wait, are you all doing adjectives? I'm going to look like I broke the theme."
  • Do we really need to supplement words like "beating" with adjectives like brutal? Are there delicate beatings we don't hear about?
  • He likes his adjectives.
  • The Order of Adjectives in English: A quick explanation
  • "Cluttered writing: adjectives and adverbs in academia" - Social science is the least readable #springerlink