Forming the comparative

Comparative adjectives are used to show what quality one thing has more or less than the other. They normally come before any other adjectives

Form Words of one syllable ending in 'e'.

Rule For example Add -r to the end of the word. wide - wider

Words of one syllable, with one vowel and Double the consonant and add big - bigger one consonant at the end. -er to the end of the word. Words of one syllable, with more than one Add - er to the end of the vowel or more than one consonant at the word. end. Words of two syllables, ending in 'y'. high - higher

Change 'y' to 'i', and add -er to happy - happier the end of the word. beautiful - more beautiful

Words of two syllables or more, not ending Place 'more' before the in 'y'. adjective. The following adjectives are exceptions to this rule:
y y y

'good' becomes 'better' 'bad' becomes 'worse' 'far' becomes 'farther' or 'further'

Adjective Order
Adjectives can be used to describe lots of things, from physical size, age, shape, colour, material, to more abstract things like opinion, origin and purpose. We can use adjectives together to give a detailed description of something. Adjectives that express opinions usually come before all others, but it can sometimes depend on what exactly you want to emphasise. For example: "That nice, big, blue bag." (You like the bag.) "That big, nice, blue bag." (You like the colour.) When we group adjectives together there is a general rule for the position of each type adjective, these are:Position 1st* Opinion Nice Ugly 2nd* Size Small Big 3rd Age Old New 4th Shape Square Circular 5th 6th 7th 8th Colour Material Origin Purpose Black Plastic British Racing Blue Cotton American Running

This is just a guide as you wouldn't normally see so many adjectives in one description. For example:
y

"She had a big, ugly, old, baggy, blue, cotton, British, knitting bag." Is grammatically correct but a bit too long-winded.

* You might swap opinion and fact adjectives depending on what you wish to emphasise:For example:
y y

"She had a long, ugly nose." emphasising the length of her nose. "He was a silly, little man." emphasising that the man was silly.

Possessive adjectives
are used to show ownership or possession. Subject pronoun I you he she it we they For example:
y y y y y y y

Possessive adjective my your his her its our their

I own a laptop. = It is my laptop. You own this computer (I presume). = It is your computer. My husband owns a car. = It is his car. My sister owns a house. = It is her house. My dog owns a collar. = It is its collar. We use this website. = It is our website. Manchester United own a football ground. = It is their football ground.

Superlative
The superlative is used to say what thing or person has the most of a particular quality within a group or of its kind. Superlative adjectives normally come before any other adjectives.

Forming the superlative Form Words of one syllable ending in 'e'. Words of one syllable, with one vowel and one consonant at the end. Rule Add -st to the end of the word. For example

wide - widest

Double the consonant and add big - biggest est to the end of the word.

Words of one syllable, with more than one Add - est to the end of the vowel or more than one consonant at the end. word.

high - highest

Words of two syllables, ending in 'y'.

Change 'y' to 'i', and add -est to happy - happiest the end of the word. beautiful - the most beautiful

Words of two syllables or more, not ending in Place 'the most' before the 'y'. adjective.

The following adjectives are exceptions:

y y y

'good' becomes 'the best' 'bad' becomes 'the worst' 'far' becomes 'the furthest'

For example:
y y y

"Jill is thebest student in the class ." "Jack is theworst student in the class." "In our solar system the planet Pluto is the furthest planet from the Sun."

!Note- superlatives are usually preceded by 'the'. For example:

y y y y y

"The Rio de la Plata river, on the southeast coastline of South America, is the widest river in the world." According to the List of World records Carol Yager (1960-1994), from Michigan, is the fattest person ever to live, weighing 725 kg (1,600 lb). "Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world." "I think that Castle Combe is the prettiest village in England." "Arguably, Rome is the most beautiful city in the world."

You can find a list of irregular adjectives here.

Adjectives describe or give information about nouns or pronouns. For example:The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".) The good news is that the form of an adjective does not change. It does not matter if the noun being modified is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object. Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun - age, size colouretc (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:
y y y y y y

Numeric: six, one hundred and one Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc. Possessive: my, his, their, your Interrogative: which, whose, what Demonstrative: this, that, those, these

!Note - The articles a, an, and the and the possessives my, our, your, and their are also adjectives.
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.

Size

Adjectives can be used to describe size. big, small, little, long, tall, short, same as, etc. For example:
y

"The big man." or "The big woman".

Age

Adjectives can be used to describe age. For example:

y

"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:
y

"It was a square box." or "They were square boxes."

Colour

Adjectives can be used to describe colour. blue, red, green, brown, yellow, black, white, etc. For example:
y

"The blue bag." or "The blue bags".

Origin

Adjectives can be used to describe origin. For example:y

"It was a German flag." or "They were German flags."

Material

Adjectives can be used to identify the material something is made of.

y

"A wooden cupboard." or "Wooden cupboards."

!Note - In English we often use a noun as an adjective. 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:
y

"She went for a long walk." or "She went for lots of long walks."

Temperature

Adjectives can be used to describe temperature. cold, warm, hot, cool, etc. For example:
y

"The day was hot." or "The days were hot."

Time

Adjectives can be used to describe time. late, early, bed, nap, dinner, lunch, day, morning, night, etc. For example:
y

"She had an early start."

Purpose

Adjectives can be used to describe purpose. (These adjectives often end with "-ing".) For example:
y

"She gave them a sleeping bag." or "She gave them sleeping bags."

!Note - In each case the adjective stays the same, whether it is describing a masculine, feminine, singular or plural noun.

When using more than one adjective to modify a noun, the adjectives may be separated by a conjunction (and) or by commas (,). For example:
y

"Her hair was long and blonde." or "She had long, blonde hair."

More examples:
Adjective Example Pretty She was a pretty girl. Serious He was a serious boy. Fast It was a fast car. Quiet 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). They are called predicative adjectives. For example:
y

"David looks tired." The subject (in this case David) is being described as tired not the verb to look.

There is also the adjective used to, which is explained here.

Common Adjective tablehttp://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adjectivecommon.htm