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  • 8/1/2024
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00:00Hi kids, today we will learn types of adjectives and the position of more than one adjectives
00:09used for a noun or a pronoun.
00:12So let's start.
00:15We know that the names of persons, animals, things, places and feelings are known as nouns.
00:26He is a student.
00:28Here student is a noun as its name of a person.
00:33He is a brilliant student.
00:37Here the word brilliant tells you more about the noun student or describes the noun.
00:45So the brilliant is a describing word and is also called an adjective.
00:52Beautiful, attractive, brilliant, active, lazy, colorful, red, blue, pink, green.
01:10All are adjectives that is they describe a noun or a pronoun.
01:18Adjectives can be of many types.
01:22Adjectives may tell us about size, shape, condition, age, color, pattern that is a physical
01:30characteristics of a living or non-living thing.
01:37Adjectives also tell us about origin, material, purpose and also our opinion about a particular
01:45noun or pronoun.
01:49Let's see different adjectives that describe different characteristics.
01:55Quantity, opinion, size, shape, condition, age, color, pattern, origin, material, purpose.
02:08Let's learn about the adjectives that tell us about the quantity.
02:14Abundant, empty, multiple, many, numerous, sparse, heavy, light, a few, a little, ten,
02:30five, four or any other number.
02:36Also all these adjectives tell us about the quantity of the noun or pronoun.
02:44Now let's see some adjectives that tell us about opinions.
02:49Beautiful, nice, sweet, cute, well-mannered, ugly, unique.
02:59These kinds of adjectives help us to express an opinion about someone or something.
03:06Size, now let's see some adjectives that tell us about the size of something or someone.
03:15Big, small, tiny, huge, bigger, biggest, massive, petite.
03:26Also these kinds of adjectives describe about size.
03:32Shape, flat, round, oval, triangular, square, pentagon, polygonal, narrow, wide, shallow,
03:49hollow, curved and so on.
03:54Now let's learn about the adjectives that tell us the condition of something.
03:59Clean, wet, dry, rough, smooth, damp, flaky, bumpy, gritty, hot, cold.
04:14These words tell us about the condition of nouns or pronouns.
04:20Some adjectives describing age are old, young, new, antique, ancient, modern, old-fashioned,
04:33fourteen years old, fifteen years old.
04:36So these adjectives help us describe about the age of someone or something.
04:43Some adjectives that tell us about the color of something are red, blue, orange, pink,
04:52purple and so on.
04:54These adjectives help describe the color of things.
04:59These are adjectives that tell us about the pattern of something.
05:04Spotted, striped, flowery, geometrical, zigzag.
05:11So these words describe the pattern of something.
05:17Adjectives that tell us about the origin of something are American, Indian, Spanish, Japanese.
05:29Material adjectives.
05:31Adjectives like gold, silver, wooden, metallic, plastic, clay, silky.
05:42These types of adjectives help us describe the material of something.
05:49Adjectives of purpose describe about the purpose of nouns or pronouns like swimming suit, shopping
05:59bag, skating shoes, purchasing card, riding seat, shopping, swimming, riding, skating,
06:12buying, purchasing are purposes related to the nouns.
06:18So the above are the different types of adjectives that describe the characteristics of something
06:25or someone.
06:28A single noun or pronoun can be described by more than one adjective.
06:35Consider the examples.
06:37She has many beautiful big dolls.
06:42So here we have three adjectives, many, beautiful and big which describe the noun dolls.
06:53Many describes the quantity, beautiful describes our opinion and big describes the size of
07:01the doll.
07:03So there are certain rules in which adjectives should appear in the sentence.
07:09We are going to learn a little bit about those rules.
07:13If you are using more than one adjective for something or someone, you need to place them
07:19in the following order.
07:23Adjectives of quantity occupy the first place, then opinion, size, shape, condition, age,
07:34color, pattern, origin, material, purpose.
07:40Whoa, this is a long list.
07:45Let's learn with examples.
07:48Here we have three adjectives for dolls, beautiful, big and many.
07:55So in which order should they appear?
07:58According to the rules, the adjective of quantity, that is, many will come at the first place.
08:07Adjective of opinion, that is, beautiful will come at the second place.
08:13Finally, the adjective of size, that is, big will occupy the last position.
08:22We have to follow the rules of adjectives.
08:25You cannot say, she has beautiful many big dolls.
08:31Now we have another example.
08:35This garden is dash, dash, dash and dash.
08:42We have four adjectives to fill, colorful, new, beautiful, round.
08:50So in which order should we place them?
08:54Let's place them in an order in the column.
08:58Right colorful in the color column, new in the age column, beautiful in the opinion column
09:07and round in the shape column.
09:11So the sequence of adjectives would be beautiful, round, new and colorful.
09:19And the sentence will be written as, this garden is beautiful, round, new and colorful.
09:28So kids, you need to remember this column and place the adjectives in the right order
09:34according to it.
09:37So kids, we learned a lot about adjective sequence.
09:42Now you may go ahead and take a quiz to learn more.
09:46Bye-bye.