3. English Grammar. What Adjectives Are. English Grammar Lesson

[mary070187]

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[ASUcheerguy]

Adjectives also tell how much as in:

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[caradeyou]

THE IS DEFINETLY A DETERMINER AND ADJECTIVES CAN BE CONSIDERED DETERMINERS ALSO AS ARE PRONOUNS..THIS IS A LARGER CATEGORY...HENCE ADJECTIVES HELP TO DETERMINE WHICH ONE OR THING...SO A DETERMINER COULD NOT COME UNDER AN ADJECTIVE CATERGORY...

[TheLarssan]

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[kecakurdan101]

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[Brulluhman]

Learn Dutch you prick.

[TheNazism]

and why you angry man

[Cin763]

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[McCracken257]

Oh man, where were you back when I was in school.

[MaksimOwen]

Thank you!

[liuzhou]

There is no way that "the" is an adjective. Look at the properties of adjectives. They have comparative and superlative forms - big, bigger, biggest.

the theer theist - I don't think so.

Also, true adjectives can be used attributively and predicitively - The big book. The book is big. Not

"book is the big"

"The" "a" and "an" are the word class he doesn't know about. Determiners.

[nihilist37]

The is most certainly an adjective. It is a special kind of determinitive adjective called an article.

There are two types of articles.

Definite article: "the"

Indefinite article: "a" or "an"

And since you mention it, there are a few types of determiners too such as number words, demonstraters, articles and possessives.

[liuzhou]

Nonsense.

Determiners share almost no similarities with adjectives.

Unlike adjectives, they cannot be used predicitively.

Unlike adjectives, they cannot be used comparatively.

Look at any modern grammar book.

[nihilist37]

I see your point because you make reference to mordern grammar. But, what I am saying is exactly as others before have said.

All words need to have a part of speech. A determiner is not a part of speech and in traditional grammar has been scooped up into the part of speech "adjectives".

I will add this caveat; I am new to formal grammar and have far less knowledge than most that have commented.

[enos76]

1:25 "the and big are both adjectives"

Is "the" supposed to be an adjective? I thought it was a definite article!

[mrthoth]

In traditional grammar, every word fits into one of these eight categories: interjection, adverb, adjective, verb, pronoun, preposition, noun, and conjunction. Definite articles count as adjectives in this scheme.

[dospook]

The fast GROWING tree

The tree is quickly growing.

In (o)ur second case(s

adjectives modify verbs

Nice test for crisis

[CinnamonScent]

Quickly is an adverb, is it not? I'm confused.

[mrthoth]

Indeed it is.

[bbbbbb222222]

Very good grammer classes!

[CrissyKitson]

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[kareem333abc]

u are very!! very!!!! good at grammer in english

[weatherman1994]

Don't adjectives modifying pronouns as well...?

[Zulnic]

Thanks for the refresher. I always got poor grades in English, but I was always bored in half of my classes. It's people like you that make learning easy and worth doing again.

[kmm0010]

Critique Part 2: The inclusion of articles into the adjective class is a shortcoming of trad. grammar. However, there are trad. grammars which do add an article part of speech to their inventory. This view recognizes that there is a different class of words which occur in syntactic positions that are different from adjectives and which have different grammatical functions. In linguistic analyses, articles are considered to be a type of determiner which is a distinct part of speech.

[scorpio1066]

anyone can cut and paste

[kmm0010]

A brief critique: This is presentation is weaker than the first video on verbs since a notional definition of adjective is used instead of a grammatical def. Adjectives are also used in predicates where they arent attached to nouns syntactically. (I would say they dont "modify" nouns, but as "modify" is defined notionally I must use an alternate word like "attach to".)

[caterinejaracea]

thank is very good, your class.

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[CrissyKitson]

cool!!

[lauwanmeng]

Thank you teacher mrthoth. These lessons are great!

[lauwanmeng]

Thank you teacher mrthoth. These lessons are great!

[Jakethegreat69]

According to my teacher, articles are not Adjectives. Also can an adjective modify an adverb?

[mrthoth]

I hate to disagree with anybody, but in traditional grammar an article is an adjective. Every word has a part of speech, and if you claim that an article isn't an adjective, then you are saying it must be a noun, adverb, verb, preposition, pronoun, conjunction, or interjection. But clearly it is none of these things. It's an adjective. Now your other question. Adverbs are what modify other adverbs. See my video on adverbs for examples.

[Jakethegreat69]

So adverbs modify adverbs? So they can not in no way modify an adjetive? And articles are always going to be adjectives? Thanks for the help, and if you could please elaborate a little bit more that would be appreciated.

[mrthoth]

Adverbs modify verbs (as does "quickly" in "I ran quickly"), adverbs (as does "very" in "I ran very quickly"), adjectives (as does "very" in "He is very good") and verbals (as does "quickly" in "Breathing quickly can make you dizzy").

[Jakethegreat69]

Thanks for the info, but i'm still a little confussed. So " I ran quickly" ran is the main verb and quickly is the adverb. I ran very quickly. I is the subject, ran is the main verb, very is the adverb modifying the original adverb quickly is that right?

[mrthoth]

You've got it!

[Jakethegreat69]

Thanks for the help. Could you replace my teacher for the final? You seem way less strict. Have a good day.

[mmaille]

please could you tell me what part of speech "given" is in a sentence beginning with "given that" I know you could equally say "as"

[mmaille]

since when has "the" been an adjective? isn't it the defenite article?

[mrthoth]

Thanks for your comment. The category "article" is not a part of speech. All articles, definite or indefinite, are adjectives. (Similarly, the category "gerund" is not a part of speech; all gerunds are nouns.)

[mysqueedilyspooch]

Thank You i am so going to ace my midterm!!

[lykeomgz1987]

What does modify mean?

[Disnote]

In that sentence it means to explain the noun.

Otherwise it plainly means: to make adjustments or improvements.