文档介绍：Chapter 23 Adjective and Adjective Phrase
Warming-up
1. Classification
2. Adjectives and participles p263
3. Adjectives as modifier in noun phrases
4. Adjectives plement p268
5. Notes
Here are some adjectives that specifically describe nouns related to the picture below:
African-American girl
Lovely girl
Yellow shirt
Happy girl
Shiny apple
colorful books
green book
Brown hair
Small eyes
Round face
…
Why are adjectives important to use
It makes your writing/speaking more visual and vivid.
It appeals to our senses so we can hear, see, touch, taste, and even smell what you’re describing.
It makes reading and writing much more fun.
Here are two sentences: one uses adjectives, one doesn’t. Which one allows you to see the picture better?
a. The rainforest contains flowers and plants that may help cure hospital patients.
b. The fresh, lush rainforest contains hundreds of bright, colorful flowers and healthy, green plants that may help cure many weak hospital patients.
1. Classification :p 259
One-word vs. Compound
Central vs. Peripheral
Dynamic vs. Stative: p 260
Gradable vs. Non-gradable
Central vs. Peripheral
Green apples are sour.
Pillar-boxes are green.
They have painted the windows green.
central
Only as Premodifier:
A. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly
. My weekly pay is $150.
I’m paid weekly.
My pay is weekly?
B. –most: utmost, foremost, innermost, etc.
C. –er: elder/eldest, inner, other, upper, lower, latter, former, outer, utter, etc.
D. –en: wooden, leaden, golden, silken, earthen, woolen, flaxen, etc. (material)
E. only, mere, sole, total, main, chief, principle (for emphasis)
G. –ing: living, existing, remaining, neighboring, dying (Ti)
Only as SC
He is an alive man.?
He is a living man / he is alive.
An alone person?
A lone person / he is alone.
An asleep child?
A sleeping child/ the child is asleep.
They are of an alike shape.?
They are of a like shape/ they are alike in shape.
A well man?
A healthy man/ he is well.
An afraid man?
A fri