Learn to Use English Adjectives Correctly

adjectives in english this video is brought to you by the following websites please check out the links in the description below adjectives in this video we will explore ways to use common adjectives in english and how to avoid some common mistakes what are adjectives describing things adjectives are used to describe things ideas and people they give information about objects people or situations so that we know more about them for example the sentence it's a pencil gives us basic information about a particular thing [Music] add an adjective when we add an adjective to the sentence we know more about the object we're referring to it's a short pencil add another adjective for even more information we can also add an additional adjective to describe the object even more it's a short fat pencil remember add adjectives to make your language more interesting it's a shirt it's purple it's a purple shirt how do we do it in english adjectives come before the nouns objects people situations etc that they modify we don't say a cat cute we say a cute cat we can also use adjectives after b verbs it's a black hat we can say the hat is black we don't say the hat black adjectives do not change in english even if the nouns sometimes do for example that's a nice shirt those are nice shirts we add an s to shirt noun but not too nice adjective adjectives help answer questions and give details adjectives answer the questions what kind of and which one someone might ask for details by saying tell me more about what kind of what kind of girl is she she's a smart girl which which book is it it's the blue one tell us more about yourself well i'm kind of shy a little funny but always happy a good way to learn adjectives is to study them in pairs of opposites for example big and little dark light fat thin tall short heavy light common adjectives in english there are some common adjectives and their opposites large small happy sad old new good bad healthy sick clean dirty hot cold right wrong easy difficult fast slow same different long short early late expensive cheap full empty busy free interesting boring top bottom pretty ugly funny serious hard soft let's do some practice which of the following sentences are correct which are incorrect [Music] [Music] please pause the video if you need more time [Music] check your answers he lives in the tall building okay number two is not okay it should be alex has two brown dogs [Music] three okay four not okay jordan is a happy person five not okay i live in a red house six okay seven not okay the green books are here eight okay nine not okay his answer is wrong that's all for now there's more to learn about adjectives but we'll save that for another video learn more you can learn more about adjectives at esl gold.com we have pictures opposites pronunciation adjective order and comparatives check it out by clicking the links below thanks for watching we hope this has been helpful keep coming back for more videos to help you learn english and don't forget to subscribe to our channel