 Adjectives in English This video is brought to you by the following websites. Please check out the links in the description below. Adjectives In this video, we will explore ways to use common adjectives in English and how to avoid some common mistakes. What are adjectives? Describing things Adjectives are used to describe things, ideas, and people. They give information about objects, people, or situations so that we know more about them. For example, the sentence, it's a pencil, gives us basic information about a particular thing. Add an adjective When we add an adjective to the sentence, we know more about the object we're referring to. It's a short pencil. Add another adjective for even more information. We can also add an additional adjective to describe the object even more. It's a short fat pencil. Remember, add adjectives to make your language more interesting. It's a shirt. It's purple. It's a purple shirt. How do we do it? In English, adjectives come before the nouns, objects, people, situations, etc., that they modify. We don't say a cat cute. We say a cute cat. We can also use adjectives after B verbs. It's a black hat. We can say the hat is black. We don't say the hat black. Adjectives do not change in English, even if the nouns sometimes do. For example, that's a nice shirt. Those are nice shirts. We add an S to shirt noun, but not to nice adjective. Adjectives help answer questions and give details. Adjectives answer the questions what kind of and which one. Someone might ask for details by saying tell me more about what kind of. What kind of girl is she? She's a smart girl. Which book is it? It's the blue one. Tell us more about yourself. Well, I'm kind of shy, a little funny, but always happy. A good way to learn adjectives is to study them in pairs of opposites. For example, big and little. Dark, light. Fat, thin. Tall, short. Heavy, light. Common adjectives in English. Here are some common adjectives and their opposites. Large, small. Happy, sad. Old, new. Good, bad. Healthy, sick. Clean, dirty. Hot, cold. Right, wrong. Easy, difficult. Fast, slow. Same, different. Long, short. Early, late. Expensive, cheap. Full, empty. Busy, free. Interesting, boring. Top, bottom. Pretty, ugly. Funny, serious. Hard, soft. Let's do some practice. Which of the following sentences are correct? Which are incorrect? Please pause the video if you need more time. Check your answers. He lives in a tall building. Okay. Number two is not okay. It should be, Alex has two brown dogs. Three, okay. Four, not okay. Jordan is a happy person. Five, not okay. I live in a red house. Six, okay. Seven, not okay. The green books are here. Eight, okay. Nine, not okay. His answer is wrong. That's all for now. There's more to learn about adjectives, but we'll save that for another video. Learn more. We have adjectives at eslgold.com. We have pictures, opposites, pronunciation, adjective order, and comparatives. Check it out by clicking the links below. Thanks for watching. We hope this has been helpful. Keep coming back for more videos to help you learn English. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel.