As will be explored in this reader however, it’s not enough to rely on definitions as concise as these when attempting to correctly identify adjectives. Linguistically speaking, an adjective is a word that has the semantic role of providing further information about a noun’s quality or state of being (such as its size, quantity or material) and the syntactic role of pre- or post-modifying nouns and noun phrases within a clause. Finally, Chapter 5 provides a short list of the 150 adjectives and 15 adjective-based expressions that are perhaps most useful in academia. Chapter 2 then provides five tests for identifying adjectives, with Chapters 3 and 4 later exploring and exemplifying the seven different types of adjective and the most important rules surrounding their distribution and ordering. Chapter 1 first introduces the defining features of adjectives before offering some discussion as to their six functions. This short reader on adjectives is therefore intended to explore this word class in particular detail, focussing specifically on how adjectives can be most usefully applied to both general and academic contexts. When writing academically, it’s particularly important that students are able to quickly recognise each class, understand and remember their various rules, and correctly apply this knowledge to a wide range of vocabulary and phrases. Coordinate adjectives are often separated by a comma or the conjunction ‘and’.
When two or more adjectives are used to describe the same noun in a sentence, they are called coordinate adjectives.
Knowing these word classes intimately allows a learner to have command of which suffixes, prefixes, syntactic structures and grammar are necessary to form accurate sentences in English. Here, the adjective ‘sleepy’ describes the object ‘Karthik’ and so comes under the category of object complements. As a language learner, you’re probably already quite familiar with the concept of classifying words into different groupings based on their form and function, such as which words are nouns and which are verbs or prepositions.
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