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§ 3. Spelling rules.

  1. If the adjective ends in a consonant preceded by a stressed short vowel the consonant is doubled before -er, -est.

sad sadder (the) saddest

big bigger (the) biggest

  1. If the adjective ends in -y preceded by a consonant, y is changed into / before -er and -est.

busy busier (the) busiest

happy happier (the) happiest

3. If the adjective ends in -e the e is dropped before -er and -est.

brave braver (the) bravest

fine finer (the) finest

§ 4. The adjective has the following syntactical characteristics:

In a sentence the adjective may be used as an attribute or as a predicative.

A little fat chap thrust out his underlip and the tall fellow

frowned. (Mansfield) (Attributes)

Laura was terribly nervous. (Mansfield) (predicative)

The air was motionless... (Mansfield) (predicative)

§ 5. Morphological composition of the adjective.

Adjectives are divided into simple, derivative and compound.

  1. Simple adjectives are adjectives which have neither prefixes nor suffixes. They are indecomposable: e. g. good, red, black.

  2. Derivative adjectives are adjectives which have derivative elements, suffixes or prefixes or both: beautiful, foolish, hopeless, unkind, unimportant.

Productive adjective-forming suffixes are:

-less: friendless, harmless, hopeless

-like: childlike

-tsh: childish, foolish

-ed (-d): beaded, blue-eyed

Unproductive suffixes aie:

-ful: careful -ible: responsible -able: reliable -ant: important -ent: dependent -en: woollen -ons: dangerous -some: troublesome

Productive adjective-forming prefixes are:

tin-: unhappy pre-: prewar

The unproductive prefix of the adjective is: in-: incorrect

3. Compound adjectives are adjectives built from two or more stems.

The main types of compound adjectives are as follows:

  1. noun-stem + adjective-stem: snow-white.

  2. noun-stem + participle-stem: life-giving, smoke-dried.

  3. adjective-stem + adjective-stem: deaf-mute.

  4. adjective-stem-\-noun-stem -4-suffix -ed: cold-hearted.

  5. noun-stem-|-noun-stem + suffix -ed: lynx-eyed.

  6. numeral-stem + noun-stem + suffix -ed: four-wheeled.

  7. adverb-stem-f noun-stem + suffix -ed: over-peopled.

§ 6. Classification of adjectives.

According to their meaning and grammatical characteristics adjectives fall under two classes: (1) qualitative adjectives, (2) rela­tive adjectives.

  1. Qualitative adjectives denote qualities of a substance directly, not through its relation to another substance, as size, shape, colour, physical and mental qualities, qualities of general estimation: little, large, high, soft, hard, warm, white, blue, pink, strong, bold, beau­tiful, important, necessary, etc.

  2. Relative adjectives denote qualities of a substance through their relation to materials (silken, woollen, wooden), to place (Italian, Asian), to time (monthly, weekly), to some action (pre­paratory, rotatory).

§ 7. Grammatical characteristics of qualitative adjectives.

1. Most qualitative adjectives ha\e degrees of comparison:

big bigger (the) biggest

interesting more interesting (the) most interesting

Some qualitative adjectives such as greenish, darkish, incurable, unsuitable, chief, principal, have no degrees of comparison.

  1. They have certain typical suffixes, such as -ful, -less, -ous, -ent, -able, -y, -ish: careful, careless, dangerous, convenient, com­fortable, silveiy, watery, whitish, shortish.

  2. From most of them adverbs can be formed by the suffix -ly:

graceful — gracefully gay — gaily

  1. Most qualitative adjectives can be used as attributes and pre­dicatives.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark, changing wavelets!

(Eliot) (attributes)

The young man was introduced, and they sat down at the table.

(Aldington) (attribute)

But you're nearly as old as 1 am! (Aldington) (predicative) The Hartlys thought he was 'rich'. George Augustus was so very comfortable ... that he too really thought he was rich!

(Aldington) (predicatives)

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