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 as complement p268
5. Notes
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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
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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.
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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.
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形容词(Adjective)的分类
词的构成
句法功能
词汇意义
单词形容词
复合形容词
中心形容词
外围形容词
动态形容词
静态形容词
等级形容词
非等级形容词
形容词+形容词 bitter-sweet
形/副+-ing good-looking, hard-working
形/副+-ed newfangled, well-meant
名+形 duty-free
名+-ing law-abiding
名+-ed hand-made
形+名+-ed kind-hearted
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a)transformed from adverbial phrases:
.: round-the-clock discussion
the ahead-of-schedule general election
b)transformed from verb phrases
.: a stand-up collar a see-through shirt
c)condensed by attributive clause
.: an easy-to-paint portrait = a portrait which is easy to paint
a difficult-to-operate machine
d)formed by a sentence
.: He spoke in a look-who’s-talking tone.
There was an I-told-you-so air on his face.
Some other compound adjs.:
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— in terms of syntactic function:
(1) central adjectives: able to be used both as modifier and as complement
(2) peripheral adjectives: unable