Jumat, 30 Mei 2014
tugas softskill 3 "My Favorite figure"
My favorite figure is my mom.. because she told me everything about life, whenever i get stressed out or crying and dissapointed in my life.. my mom is always there for me.. she give me a lot of advices.. she work for the family.. but still making breakfast for us in home before she goes to office. i really love my mom so much.. i hope when i grow up to be like my mom and also better for my family.
softskill tugas 3
What
is an adjective?"
Simply put adjectives are
descriptive words. Adjectives are used to describe or give information about
things, ideas and people: nouns or pronouns.
For Example:-
The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".)
The most common question an adjective might answer is "What kind of ...?"
The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".)
The most common question an adjective might answer is "What kind of ...?"
The good news is that in English the
form of an adjective does not change, once you have learnt it that's it and it
does not matter if the noun being described is male or female, singular or
plural, subject or object. Yay!
Some adjectives give us factual
information about the noun - age, size colour etc (fact adjectives - can't be
argued with).
Some adjectives show what somebody
thinks about something or somebody - nice, horrid, beautiful etc (opinion
adjectives - not everyone may agree).
If you are asked questions with which,
whose, what kind, or how many, you need an adjective to be able to answer.
There
are different types of adjectives in the English language:
- Numeric: six, one hundred and one etc.
- Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough etc.
- Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc.
- Possessive: my, his, their, your etc.
- Interrogative: which, whose, what etc.
- Demonstrative: this, that, those, these etc.
!Note - The articles a, an,
and the are a special kind of adjective called articles, and the
possessives my, our, your, and their are sometimes known as
possessive adjectives.
Colour
Adjectives can be used to describe colour.
blue, red, green, brown, yellow, black,
white, etc.
For Example:
- "The blue bag." or "The blue bags".
Opinion
Adjectives can be used to give your opinion
about something.
good, pretty, right, wrong, funny,
light, happy, sad, full, soft, hard etc.
For Example:
- He was a silly boy. / She was a silly girl.
Size
Adjectives can be used to describe size.
big, small, little, long, tall,
short, same as, etc.
For Example:
- "The big man." or "The big woman".
Age
Adjectives can be used to describe age.
For Example:
- "He was an old man." or "She was an old woman."
Shape
Adjectives can be used to describe shape.
round, circular, triangular,
rectangular, square, oval, etc.
For Example:
- "It was a square box." or "They were square boxes."
Origin
Adjectives can be used to describe origin.
For Example:-
- "It was a German flag." or "They were German flags."
Material
Adjectives can be used to identify
the material something is made of.
- "A wooden cupboard." or "Wooden cupboards."
!Note - In English we often change
nouns into adjectives.
For Example: glass - a glass vase / metal - a metal tray etc.
Distance
Adjectives can be used to describe distance.
l -- o -- n -- g / short
long, short, far, around, start,
high, low, etc.
For Example:
- "She went for a long walk." or "They went for lots of long walks."
Temperature
Adjectives can be used to describe temperature.
cold, warm, hot, cool, etc.
For Example:
- "It was a hot day" or "We eat ice cream on hot days."
Time
Adjectives can be used to describe time.
late, early, bed, nap, dinner,
lunch, day, morning, night, etc.
For Example:
- "She had an early start."
Purpose
Adjectives can be used to describe purpose.
(These adjectives often end with "-ing".)
For Example:
- "She gave them a sleeping bag." or "She gave them sleeping bags."
!Note - Have you noticed how the
adjective stays the same, whether it is describing a masculine, feminine,
singular or plural noun? Nice huh?
When using more than one adjective
to modify a noun, the adjectives may be separated by a conjunction (and) or by
commas (,).
For Example:
- "Her hair was long and blonde." or "She had long, blonde hair."
More examples:
Adjective
|
Pretty
|
Serious
|
Fast
|
Quiet
|
For
Example:
|
She is a pretty girl.
|
He was a serious boy.
|
It could be a fast car.
|
They were quiet children.
|
!Note - Adjectives that go immediately before the noun are called attributive adjectives.
Adjectives can also be used after
some verbs. They do not describe the verb, adverbs do that.
Adjectives after a verb describe the
subject of the verb (usually a noun or pronoun).
For Example:
- "Lynne looks tired."
The subject (in this case Lynne) is
being described as tired not the verb to look.
There is also the adjective used
to, which is such a beast that it gets its own section - Used To.
Sumber: http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adjectivetext.html
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