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You know, in one book it is written that Italian language It looks like candy - it is so pleasant that it simply “melts” in your mouth. And I declare that English gives even more pleasant sweetness when you know beautiful adjectives in English. These are what we will study with you today. We have about 30 adjectives ahead with translation, examples and even voiceovers.

Eh, I didn’t even want sweets after so many adjectives. I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did, and that you will now use them in your speech much more often. By the way, you can find even more descriptive words, but this time relating to people’s characters.

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Hello! We have already learned the verbs in English language, studied tables of English pronouns. It's time to relax a little and study adjectives in English. These words are very important for a living and rich English speech, so if you want to become a full member of the English-speaking society, then you just need to know at least the basic adjectives.

English adjectives The adjective is the main part of speech that denotes a sign of a phenomenon, person or object - green room ( green room), warm rain (warm rain), good friend ( good friend). Answers the question (which ones? which one? which one?). As you can see from the question, unlike the Russian language, adjectives in English do not change according to gender, number and cases, do not form short forms, making them much easier to learn.

Whole line English adjectives in their form, that is, in writing, they are no different from adverbs. To distinguish them, it is necessary to remember that adverbs define an adjective, a verb or another adverb - well (good), little (little), late (late), and adjectives - noun - well (good), little (small), late (late).

According to their meaning, adjectives in English are divided into:

• Relative- cannot be combined with an adverb very (Very) and do not form degrees of comparison. There are much fewer of them, they convey such signs of a phenomenon, person or object that cannot be present in them to a lesser or greater extent. For example: the place of action is central (central), material - g lass (glass) etc.
• Quality- a larger group. Designate such features that may be inherent in a person, object or phenomenon to a lesser or greater extent, therefore qualitative adjectives form three degrees of comparison: superlative, comparative and positive. Eg, soft - soft(positive) - softer - softer(comparative) - softest - softest(excellent). From qualitative ones the corresponding abstract nouns are formed - darkness (darkness), cold (cold).

Like Russian, English has adjectives:

• Simple- in them, except for the root, the suffix and prefix are not distinguished: little (small), black (black), short (short)
• Derivatives- in these words both the root, the prefix and the suffix are highlighted: unkind (unkind), beautiful (beautiful), untrue (wrong)
• Composite (complex)- consist of several stems, most often separated by a hyphen: snow-white (snow-white), high-bred (well-mannered), red-hot (hot).

It is necessary to distinguish between English adjectives that end in “ -ing" And " -ed" You need to know this so as not to confuse them with past verbs, gerunds and participles. In this case, you need to be guided by their role and place in the sentence. In a word on "-ing" usually describe the impression of an object, phenomenon or person, and in words "-ed"- the state of the person himself.

Study Table No. 1. What words did you know? Write down new words for you along with the translation and learn:

The role of adjectives in a sentence

The Adjective refers to a pronoun or, most often, a noun. In a sentence it can perform the following functions:

1. Definitions(Attributive adjectives) - He wears black shoes (He wears black shoes), comes before a noun. If there are demonstrative, possessive pronouns and an article, then the adjective is placed between the determiner of the noun and the noun itself: Moscow is a beautiful city (Moscow is a beautiful city). If the Adjective is preceded by an adverb of degree, which enhances its meaning, then the defined noun is omitted, but the meaning is implied: I thought shi very clever (woman) - I thought she was very smart (woman).

In the case when a noun is determined by several adjectives at once, then those Adjectives that reflect the state of things are located closer, and then words that express an opinion: It was a nice sunny day - It was a nice sunny day. The fact that it is a sunny day is a fact, a state, but the fact that it is glorious is a subjective opinion.

Study Table No. 2 to find out the rules for the placement of adjectives characterizing a noun:

Attributive adjectives are placed after the noun if:

• Adjective defines indefinite pronoun: There is nothing wrong
• The adjective itself has a dependent word in the comparative construction: They have a court yard larger than yours (They have a larger yard than yours)
• The definition is expressed by the words present (present), absent (absent) and some other words: Absent will not be in a rate

2. Compound nominal predicate (predicative) — His shoes are red (His shoes are red), comes after the linking verb - to be (is, am, are, was...): Moscow is beautiful (Moscow is beautiful (beautiful). A number of other verbs can be used in the same capacity: to get, to turn, to become, to look, to seem - Shi is getting old (She is getting old).

Adjectives such as well (good health) and ill (sick), as well as words starting with “a” - awake (awake), asleep (sleeping), afraid (scared), alive (alive) and others are used exclusively in the function predicative and they lack degrees of comparison: Hi is ill again (He is sick again).

Adjectives for everyday communication

Adjectives that denote shapes, tastes, sizes, colors and qualities are very important, since they are most often used in everyday everyday communication.
Carefully study table No. 3. Try to remember the most common words, write down the most difficult ones:

Sometimes in a conversation there is a need to describe someone we know or, on the contrary, a person completely unfamiliar to us. Moreover, we can talk not only about appearance, but also about personal qualities, with which the speaker is dissatisfied or delighted. In Russian, we can use participles, adjectives and stable speech patterns for these purposes. In foreign speech, all these means are also present, but most often, adjectives in English that characterize a person help us reveal the image of the character under discussion in all its details. Today we will look at a large volume of new words that allow us to colorfully and fully describe the qualities and appearance of any individual.

Adjectives describing appearance

A person's appearance consists of various factors. She is treated as relatively constant signs: eye and hair color, voice timbre, height, age, physique, facial features, etc.; and frequently changing properties: style of clothing and shoes, possible jewelry, accessories. The variety of adjectives allows you to convey both the general impression of people’s appearance and clearly differentiate each feature. The table below provides a list of various definitions that describe appearance person in a neutral, positive and negative way.

Of course, it is impossible to convey in one table all the English adjectives that characterize a person’s appearance or describe various nouns. But we tried to provide the most diverse and frequently used examples in speech for initial study. Next, we will consider what lexical means can be used to characterize the behavior, principles and views of an individual.

Adjectives in English that characterize a person as a person

All people tend to have a natural sensitivity and reaction to actions, which gradually turns into an individual manner of behavior, while simultaneously developing a special outlook on life and its values. The complex of these actions shapes a person’s character and precedes the formation of a full-fledged personality. According to the scale of the phenomenon, in various languages ​​there is such a huge number of words and expressions about the qualities of people that it is simply not comparable with similar vocabulary used to denote appearance.

For this category, we have also compiled a table in which adjectives in English characterizing human qualities are presented with translation. As mentioned earlier, there are about several thousand such lexical units, and, naturally, you cannot rewrite all of them, much less memorize them. We have selected almost a hundred English definitions that characterize an individual with a positive or negative side. For convenience, the words are summarized into small thematic groups. Let's look at them.

We learned adjectives to describe various properties and qualities of people, and are now able to create a description of the character of any person in English. Let's continue to improve our English in the next classes!