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Some adjectives can be put in attributive position only (e.g. an expensive restaurant / the restaurant is expensive).
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Most adjectives can be put in either attributive or predicative position, with no change in meaning (e.g. something interesting) or superlatives (e.g. There are not many of them, and they mostly occur in fixed phrases (e.g.: the manager responsible / persons unknown / the attorney general), or after pronouns (e.g. Adjectives that follow a noun directly (without a copula verb) are called postpositive adjectives. I should also point out that in sentence 1, deep is not properly called a predicative adjective, because a predicative adjective needs to follow a copula verb (e.g. So, we need to clarify what the writer intends to describe with the word deep. Somebody reading sentence 1 will interpret deep as referring to in the rich culture of India, not to roots. But in sentence 1, it doesn't, because it's very unusual to put deep directly after the noun it is intended to describe (it's normally put before the noun, in attributive position). In sentence 2, deep clearly describes roots. GapFillTyping_MTQyMzc= Book traversal links for Comparative and superlative adjectives
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How to form comparative and superlative adjectives The adjectives good, bad and far have irregular comparatives and superlatives: good She is the most polite person I have ever met. She is one of the politest people I have ever met. His brother is handsome, but he is more handsome. He is certainly handsomer than his brother. However, with these common two-syllable adjectives, you can either add –er/ –r and –est/ –st or use more and most: common We use more and most to make comparatives and superlatives for most two syllable adjectives and for all adjectives with three or more syllables: careful If an adjective ends in a consonant and –y, we change –y to –i and add –er or –est: happy If an adjective ends in a vowel and a consonant, we double the consonant: big If an adjective ends in –e, we add –r or –st: nice We usually add –er and –est to one-syllable words to make comparatives and superlatives: old
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MultipleChoice_MTk4Njg= Superlative adjectives 2 GapFillTyping_MTQxNzU= How to form comparative and superlative adjectives I have three sisters: Jan is the oldest and Angela is the youngest. That’s the best film I have seen this year. GapFillTyping_MTQxNzM= Superlative adjectivesĮverest is the highest mountain in the world. (= When they climbed higher, it got colder.) Comparative adjectives 1 The higher they climbed, the colder it got. (= When you drive faster, it is more dangerous.) The faster you drive, the more dangerous it is. We often use the with comparative adjectives to show that one thing depends on another: When we want to describe how something or someone changes we can use two comparatives with and:Įverything is getting more and more expensive. We use than when we want to compare one thing with another: This car is certainly better, but it's much more expensive. We use comparative adjectivesto show change or make comparisons: