
Formation of adjective & uses of Adjective: there are no general rules to form adjective but there are some practices which are being follow to make adjectives.
Below are some examples of Formation & uses of Adjective.
Suffixes | Examples |
-able/ibl | understandable,possible,capable |
-al | special,potential,influential |
-ful | graceful,beautiful,harmful. |
-ic | artistic,atomic,mathematics. |
-ed | related, interested, |
-less | speechless,endless,emotionless |
-ive | Active,alternative,creative |
Some Adjectives are formed from Noun:
Noun | Adjective |
Shame | Shameless |
Boy | Boyish |
Gold | Golden |
care | Careful |
Fool | Foolish |
Any, Some
Any use for negative/interrogative and some use for affirmative.
- Does he have any Mangoes?
- Have you any Mangoes
- He give me some Mangoes
Later,Latter
Later mention time and Latter denote position.
- My friend reached school later than me.
- Recommend the latter option.
Elder, Older
Elder used only in person and more formal than older and Older used in person and thing both.
- He is my elder sister.
- He is the elder member of the club.
- Who is the older brother in both of them.
- My house is older than your house.
Fewer, Less
Fewer mention the number it uses for countable nouns and Less mention quantity and uses with uncountable nouns.
- I did less work than my routine.
- I have fewer flocks of birds as I used to have.
- Mr.John drank less water today as the doctor recommended the quantity.
Many, Much
Many is used for countable nouns and Much is used with uncountable nouns.
- They don’t have much money to spend on vacations.
- George has many cars.
- Lucy has many friends in college.
- Linda is so much miserable after her mother’s death.
Little, a little, the little.
Little means hardly any not positive meaning, a little means not much but better, the little means not much but all of that.
- Micheal has little hope for recovery in leg surgery. (hardly any, negative meaning)
- George has a little money ( not much,some, positive meaning)
- I have the little information that is not reliable. (Not much but all of that)