adjectives

Adjectives are words that describe or modify other words, making your writing and speaking much more specific, and a whole lot more interesting

Some adjectives can be identified by their endings. Typical adjective endings include:

Forming adjective

• -able/-ible understandable, capable, readable, incredible
• -able/-ible understandable, capable, readable, incredible
• -ful beautiful, bashful, helpful, harmful
• -ic artistic, manic, rustic, terrific
• -ive submissive, intuitive, inventive, attractive
• -less sleeveless, hopeless, groundless, restless
• -ous gorgeous, dangerous, adventurous, fabulous

Common adjectives

• Good
• New
• First
• Long
• Great
• Little
• Own
• Other
• Old
• Big
• High
• Different

Examples of adjective

• Bitter
• Delicious
• Salty
• spicy
• Sweet

Adjectives in sentence

• Margot wore a beautiful hat to the pie-eating contest.
• The scariest villain of all time is Darth Vader.
• My cake should have sixteen candles.
• Furry dogs may overheat in the summertime.
• That cow sure is happy.