Name: ADJECTIVES | Basic English Grammar Course
Uploaded: 2018-08-02T11:57:43.000Z
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And welcome to this English course on adjectives.

In today's video, I'm going to tell you
everything there is to know about adjectives.

The best way to describe an adjective in English
is to say that

it's a word that describes or clarifies a noun.

It gives you information on people, things,
ideas, nouns, or pronouns.

It is very important to understand what adjectives are

Because they are essential when you speak English.

Adjectives give us so much information about nouns.

Let's, for example, take a common noun, 'cup'.

And see how many ways there are in English
to describe a cup

If you want to talk about the shape of the
cup you could say,

Or if you want to say what color it is,
“It's a white cup.”

Or talking about temperature,
“It's a cold cup.”

But in this case, it can be used as an adjective.

All these adjectives are places before the
noun.

Which is called the predicative position.

Adjectives which are found after a verb, describe
the subject of this verb.

So if we take the sentence, 
“The girl is nice.”

The adjective, 'nice', refers to the subject
of the sentence, 'the girl'.

The adjective, 'happy', describes the
subject of the sentence, 'my students'.

Let's now practice finding adjectives in
a few sentences.

Can you see the adjective in this sentence?

Now what's the adjective in this sentence?

'My eyes' is the subject of the sentence
and the adjective is 'blue'.

'The weather' is the subject and the adjective
is 'cold'.

Now in the first three sentences, it's the
attribute position.

And in the last three sentences, it's the
predicative position.

And in this case, after the verb 'to be'.

It's very important that you repeat the
sentences after me

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