10-18-2017, 09:18 AM
(These are also called predicate adjectives)
He feels bad (correct)
He feels badly (wrong)
The soup smells delicious (correct)
The soup smells deliciously (wrong)
Rule 16:
MODIFIERS - HYPHENATED OR COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
Nouns are sometimes found as part of hyphenated or compound adjectives (adjectives of more than one word joined by hyphens). These nouns are never plural.
I bought a four hundred year-old painting in Germany.
HYPHENATED ADJ. N
Some more examples:
(i)B.Com is a three-year degree course.
(ii)This is a ten-kilometre-long distance.
(iii)The professor has delivered a two-hour lecture today.
Rule 17:
MODIFIERS - CARDINAL AND ORDINAL NUMBERS
There are two kinds of numbers, cardinal and
ordinal.
Examples:
CARDINAL ORDINAL
one first
two second
three third
four fourth
twenty-one twenty-first
The following patterns are used to designate items in a series:
(1)Ordinal numbers are used in this pattern:
THE + ORDINAL + NOUN
The first book of the series is about verbs.
(2)Cardinal numbers are used in this pattern:
NOUN + CARDINAL
Book one of the series is about verbs.
NOTES:
i.Use the with ordinal numbers.
ii.Do not use the with cardinal numbers.
iii.Be careful to use the correct word order for each pattern.
Rule 18:
MODIFIERS: NOUN ADJECTIVES
The first noun (N) in the following pattern is used as
an adjective.
All these are language students.
N N
NOTES:
a.When nouns are used as adjectives, they do not have plural or possessive forms.
b.Exceptions : The following nouns always end in -s but are singular in number when they are used as names of courses or sciences : Physics, Mathematics etc.
He is an Economics teacher.
N N
BUT The current economic situation is extremely uncertain.
Note:
'Economic' is adjective here.
‘Economical’ means frugal, thrifty.
It does not refer to condition.
Exercise - 9
Correct the mistakes relating to the use of adjectives in the following sentences where necessary.
1.lam more wiser than that student.
2.My house is larger than you.
3.The climate of Hyderabad is better than Madras.
4.Many a student is attending the meeting today.
5.He wants little sugar for tea.
6.Pooja is my older sister.
7.It is much fine today.
8.My friend is senior than me by 4 years.
9.Death is preferable than disgrace.
10.Calcutta is a worth-seeing city.
11.My friends both sisters are doctors.
12.The two first chapters of this book are very important.
13.Suvarna is greater than any student in the class.
14.Shakuntala is better than any drama in Sanskrit.
15.His house is further from the station than yours.
16.The later suggestion is better than the former.
17.These flowers smell sweetly.
18.Little learning is a dangerous thing.
19.Her birthday is the most happiest even this year.
20.Usually the rich people hate poor.
21.Go and meet the concerned clerk in the university.
22.Honour is dear to me than life.
23.Little act would have saved the situation.
24.The tiger is the ferocious of all animals in the forest.
25.My knife is the sharpest of the two.