DESCRIBING PEOLE
ADJECTIVES
• What are adjectives?
Adjectives are words that describe or modify a person/thing/place/concept in a sentence.
example: happy----happier----happiest
COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES ADJECTIVES
opinion color Body part size shape
Beautiful
Elegant
Handsome
Long
Clean
quaint
Blue
Gray
Red
White
Green
black
Eyes
Hair
Ears
Head
Nose
Lips. etc.
Big
Fat
Slim
Small
Tall
short
Straight
Wide
Skinny
Square
Flat
round
Comparatives adjectives
• We use comparative adjective when we are comparing two things.
• We use comparative adjectives to compare people. We might talk about how a friend has changed.
Example: martha is much friendlier than she was when we were at school.
• We often use than with comparative adjectives.example: carlos is taller that jaime
Comparative adjective rule
• For short adjectives (one syllable) ,add -er
Example: small ----- smaller• If the adjectives ends in -e, add -r
Example: nice------nicer• For short adjectives, ending in one vowel and one
consonant, we double the consonant before adding -er
Example: hot----- hotter
• For most long adjectives (two syllables or more), we put more first
Example: important ------ more importante
• For long adjectives ending in y, we use –ier
Example: early------ earlier
Superlative adjective
We use superlatives when we are comparing more than two things.
Superlative adjective rule
• For short adjectives and long adjectives ending in -y take away the final r of the comarative form, and add –st
Example: small-----smaller------smallest• For long adjective, change more to most
Example: important--more important—most important• Before superlative adjectives, we usually use the
Example: carla is the most famous english teacher
AGE BUILD HEIGHT
Young, teenager, middle-aged elderly
Fat, slim, thin
Skinny, stocky
Tall, short, small
medium
EYES CLOTHES HAIR FACE
Brigth, blue, big round eyes
Casual
Shabby
messy
Straight
Curly, spiky
Wavy, bald
Round, oval
Sun-tanned
square
Describing people
• Age
Elderly middle- aged teenager
Describing people
• Build
• Fat thin skinny stocky
Describing people
• Height
• Tall short medium small
Exercise 1
• The following adjectives describe people´s physical charateristics. List them
Slim, curly
Long, oval
Wavy, tall
young, small
thin, straight
age height hair build
Exercise 2
• Describe Carmen and Luis using comparative adjectives.