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Adjectives, the adjective phrase and
adverbs
Adjectives, the adjective phrase and
Tran Bao Ngoc
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Adjectives
1 Definition and classification of adjectives
2 Functions of adjectives
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1a Definition of adjective:
Adjective is a word which modifies a noun or pronoun
(called the adjective’s subject) by describing, identifying
or quantifying words
Every adjective answers one of 3 questions:
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adjective
Which one is it?
What kind is it?
How many are there?
Three questions
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1 Which one is it? (Describing)
Eg: The students who have not prepared for English class sit out an hour in the
cafeteria
Which students? Not good students but lazy slackers
2 What kind is it? (Identifying)
Eg: I like green tea
What kind of tea do you like?
3 How many are there?
Eg: There are 48 students in our class.
How many students are there in your class?
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1b.Classification of adjectives
Their structure
2 kinds:
Adjectives that are the roots
Eg: good, fat, little, young, hot…
.Adjectives formed by some suffixes:
Eg: Adj =N+ “ ous”: humor - humorous
“ful” : beauty - beautiful
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V+ “ive” : act - active
“able”: read - readable
Notes: “-ing”: property of something (Eg: This book is so
interesting)
“-ed”: someone’s feeling or opinion (Eg: I found it interested
when going out with him)
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Limiting adjectives
Quantity: many, some, any, (a) few, (a) little…
Possessive: my, your, their, his, her, its…
Indicative: that, this, those…
Order: 1st, 2nd… 20th…
“Article: a, an, the is considering as an adjective”
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Limiting adjectives
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Attributive and predicative
Adj are attributive when they premodify nouns: appear between the determiner and the head of noun phrase
Eg: the lovely cat
Predicative adj can be
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They can be complement to a subject which is a finite clause or
a non –finite clause
Whether he will learn is true
Playing tennis isn’t easy
adj can be object complement to clause:
I consider what he said untrue
or Playing so hard
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The adj functioning as object complement often
expresses the result of the process denoted by the verb
He pulled the window open (as a result, the window was then open)
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Exercise: Modify for noun, verb, object, and subject
1.He is a nice man
2.Do you see the small green boat, which has such an old shape 3.She wore her shirt short
4.The weather becomes cold
5.Her hair was dyed blonde
6.We should keep our room clean and tidy
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Verb less adjective clause
An adj (alone or as head of an adj phrase) can function as a
verb less clause, the clause is mobile, though it usually
precedes or follows the subject of the super ordinate clause;
Eg: (By then) happy, she opened the gift
She, (by then) happy, opened the gift
She opened the gift, by then happy
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The implied subject is usually the subject of sentence Thus, while
we have
Eg: The man restrained the woman, who was aggressive
We do not have as its equivalent
*the man restrained the woman, aggressive
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However, if the clause contains additional clause
constituents, its implied subject can be other than the
subject of the sentence:
Eg: She glanced with disgust at the cat, quiet (now) in her daughter’s lap
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An adverb may sometimes replace, with little difference
in meaning, an adj functioning as a verb less clause:
Eg: Happy, she opened the gift
Happily, she opened the gift
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(When the implied subject is the whole clause, a corresponding
adverb can replace the adj with little or difference in meaning, as with strangely for strange:
Strangely, it was she wanted to live far from home
The adj, unlike the adverb, allows a that- or how-clause to follow:
+that……
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Exclamatory adjectives sentence
An adj as head of an adj phrase or its sole realization can
be an exclamation:
How beautiful girl!
How a nice day!
What a lovely cat!
What a pity!
How wonderful
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Postpositive
Adj can sometimes be postpositive, they can sometimes follows the item they modify A postposed adj (together with many complementation it may have) can usually be regarded relative clause
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Postposition is obligatory for a few adj, which have a
different sense when they occur attributively or
predicatively The most common are probably elect and
proper as in: “the Pesident elect the city London proper”
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If an adj is alone or premodified merely by an intensifier, postposition is normally not allowed:
The rather timid soldiers approached their officer (√)
The soldiers rather timid approached their officer (×)
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However, if the noun phrase is generic and indefinite,
coordinated adj or adj with a clause element added can
be postposed,though such constructions are not very
frequent:
A man who is usually honest will sometimes cheat
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Adjective phrase
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degree adverbs: completely, extremely, extraordinarily
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Adjective phrase
E.g.
1.He is handsome.
“ Handsome” is an adjective phrase with only one head.
2.He is very handsome.
“ Very handsome” is an adjective phrase with the intensifier “ very” and the head “ handsome”.
3.I am afraid to make any mistake.
“ Afraid to make any mistake” is an adjective phrase with the head “ afraid” and the complement “ to make any mistake”.
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Adjective phrase
4.He was unaware that everyone had gone away.
“ Unaware that everyone had gone away” is an adjective phrase with
the head “ unaware” and the complement “ that everyone had gone away”.
5.They are quite unaware of any wrongdoing.
“ Quite unaware of any wrongdoing” is an adjective phrase with the
intensifier “ quite”, the head “ unaware” and the complement “ of any wrongdoing”.
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II) Adjectival complementation
Prepositional phraseNoun + clause
Infinitive verbal phrase
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Adjectival complementation
There are three formal types:
1.Prepositional phrase: preposition + complement
E.g
+) I am afraid of being stolen
“Afraid of being stolen” is an adjective phrase with the
head “afraid” and the prepositional phrase “ of being
stolen”
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Adjectival complementation
2 Noun + clause (clause beginning with the conjunction “ that” )
E.g
+) She is aware that he loves her.
“ Aware that he loves her” is an adjective phrase with the head “
aware” and the noun clause “ that he loves her”.
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Adjectival complementation
3 Infinitive verbal phrase ( verbal phrase beginning with “ to” ).
E.g.
+) We are too grateful to say anything.
“ Too grateful to say anything” is an adjective phrase with intensifier
“ too”, the head “ grateful” and the infinitive verbal phrase “ to say anything”.
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Exercise: Identify the intensifier, the head, and
the complement in the following sentences.
1.I was very bored with your representation.
I was very bored with your Int H C
representation 2.The children are too lovely to ignore them.
The children are too lovely to ignore them.
Int H C 3.I was so happy that I cried.
I was so happy that I cried.
Int H C
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Exercises
4.Ann was completely unaware of her ability to dance.
Ann was completely unaware of
Int H
her ability to dance
C
5.Afraid of a hand to hand combat, Reginald purchased a large gun.
Afraid of a hand to hand combat,
H C
Reginald purchased a large gun
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Characteristics
Adverb as modifier
Modifier of noun phrase
Comparison and intensification The adverb and
other word-classes
Classification
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Derivational suffix –ly
beautifully, well, terribly, fairly, honestly
=> the most common characteristic of the adverb is morphological: the majority of adverbs have the
derivational suffix –ly
in both cases adverb functions directly in and
ADVERB PHRASE of which is head or sole
realization
Eg:far more easily clever
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• we can now see it
• he summarizes briefly
disjuncts: express and evaluate what is being said
• They are probably going there
conjuncts: indicate the connection between what is being said and what was said before
• if they talk to me badly again,then I'm leaving
• he got a bad mark,though he worked very hard
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Modifier of adjective
an adverb may premodify an adjective
Eg:It's a very interesting game
She is an extremely good girl
the adverb enough-postmodifies adjectives
Eg:You are not tall enough
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Modifier of adverb
an adverb may premodify another adverb,and function as intensifier:
it's raining very heavily
he is talking very much
the adverb enough-postmodifies adverbs
he doesn't work hard enough to pass the exam
some adverbs:right,well,premodify particles in phrasal verbs
he knocked the man right out
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Modifier of prepositional phrase
few adverbs that premodify particles in phrasal verbs also premodify prepositions or preposition phrases
His parents are dead against the trip
the ghost went right through the wall
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Modifier of determiner, predeterminer,
post determiner
intensifying adverbs can premodify indefinite
pronouns,predeterminers,and cardinal numerals
Nearly everyone visits this beautiful place
Over two months I haven't received any news from my uncle
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modifier of noun phrase
a few intensifiers may premodify noun
phrases:quite,rather and the predeternimners
such and exclamatory what
he told such a boring story
I don't know such illness
she is rather cute
so: interrogative and exclamatory how precede the indefinite article
Now I already know he was so big a fool
How beautiful you are,girl!
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modifier of noun phrase (con’t)
Adverbs of time, place:
some adverbs signifying place or time postmodify noun phrases
Place:the way ahead,the nighbor upstairs,the
sentence below
Time:the day before,the meeting yesterday
in some phrases,the adverb can also be used as
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modifier of noun phrase (con’t)
Adverbs as complement of preposition:
Some place and time adverbs function
complement of preposition.Of the place adverbs,
here and there take the most prepositions: along,
round,down under, up
I haven't know anything about this till now
We will stop talking from tonight
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=>the forms form
lesser degrees of comparison
Eg: least difficult
=>the forms form
the least degrees
of comparison
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Comparison and intensification (con’t)
Basis of comparison
correlative constructions introduced by than and by
as,and prepositional phrases with of
You are more stupid than me
She behaves more politely than you do
Of the two girls,she behaves more politely
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Conjunct and conjunction
A few conjunct resemble coordinators both in
being connectives and in having certain syntactic features,it can't be moved in front of the
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