2007年1月8日 星期一

Adjective型容詞


In grammar, an adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun, usually by describing it or making its meaning more specific. Adjectives exist in most languages.(from wikipedia)

Descriptive adjectives :
1)opinion (explains what you think about something): silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult
2)size (how big or small something) : big, small, little large, tiny, enormous(size + length + width)
3)age ( how young or old something or someone is): old, young,ancient, new
4)shap (It describes the shape of something): flat, damon,square, round, flat, rectangular
5)color : blue, pink, reddish, grey
6)origin : Janpennes,French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek
7)material :wooden, metal, cotton, paper
8)Purpose : Purpose A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with “-ing”.Examples:sleeping (as in “sleeping bag”), roasting (as in “roasting tin”)

ex : May bought a beautiful, round, pink, Japanese strawberry cake.

Quantitative adjectives :
many : He has a few books. He has many friends.
many a + 單數n
ex : I have visited many contrys. = I have visited many a contry.
a member of , a great/good/large number of

可數 不可數
many much
a number of an mount of
a large number of a large amount of
few little
a few a little

可數,不可數均可使用
a lot of = lots of
some
plenty of (many)

ex : I have a lot of books.
I have lots of books.
I eat a lot. I eat a lot of food.
It rain a lot.

not a few = many = quit a few
ex : There are not a few children playing games in the park.

not a little = much = quit a little
He has not a little money but I have not a few books.

enough + 可數 n or 可數n + enough
+ 不可數 n 不可數 +
ex : I have enough money to bu a car.
I have money enough to buy a car.

adj + enough
ex: He is old enough to go school.

not.......enough = too ....... to
ex : His is too young to go to school.
He is so young that he can't go to school.

several + 可數n
I've read the book several times.
He know saveral langurage.

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