How to Use an Adjective before a Noun

Thursday, January 28, 2010

We know that English grammar is the most flexible grammar in the world. There is no such grammar of any language that can elaborate the process of grammar in such an easy way. Hence when one has to learn the language of the world, he or she has to go through the English grammar and it is a matter of ease that it poses no problem to him or her. It is absolutely very easy to learn a language like English along with its grammar.

The first lesson that every learner of English language must have to know – the Parts of Speech. If it is grasped well, the English grammar is no hard task. Among the eight parts of speech, Adjective is one. It allows us to make a difference between the things that are general with the process of narrowing the focus to one particular thing. Hence when we go to describe noun, we have to encounter different kinds of adjectives.

It is not very hard to find out a correct noun. We know what a noun is. It is, in a word, the name of a person, a place, a thing or a place. If we are able to choose the exact noun, we can easily find out the exact adjective that is to be used. For example, if it is told that I am looking at the flowers we can indicate which flowers we are looking at.

The first thing that we have to do is to find out an adjective that is perfectly placed before a noun. Actually the work of an adjective is to describe the noun. As for example it can be said ‘I like red rose. However my wife likes the wild rose that I don’t dislike too. However, if I am to choose I would prefer the fragrant rose.’ If I have to find out a rose in the true sense of the term I have to keep in mind the three things-red rose, wild rose and the fragrant rose.

If we have to single out the subject, we have to find out more adjectives.” I would rather opt for red, wild, fragrant rose. I don’t go out for a fragrant, red, yard rose.”

Actually we have to find it carefully if the adjectives are placed in right order. We can never write in the manner “I am not interested to have the thorny red fragrant rose.” What we have to do is to place the perfect adjectives in the perfect order- opinion, color, quality, origin, material, and purpose. We have to dip delve into the matter that the descriptions must be to the point so that the types of adjective and specifically the order is maintained. The exquisite, big coin (here opinion along with the size are referred), a round, historical coin (shape and age is referred to here while describing the coin), a gray Roman coin (here the color along with the origin is mentioned and a gold Roman coin (here we can find the material and the purpose).

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