Beginner › Grammar
Beginner 📝 Grammar
Basic adjectives
Describe people, places and things with adjectives in the right position.
1Learn
Goal: Describe people, places and things with adjectives in the right position.
An adjective describes a noun: big, small, hot, kind, beautiful. It goes before the noun (a big house) or after be (the house is big). Adjectives never take -s: “two big houses”, not “two bigs houses”. Order when using two: opinion before size before colour — “a nice small red car”.
2Examples
a hot day
The tea is sweet.After be
She is a kind teacher.
two big housesNo -s on adjectives
a beautiful old templeOpinion + age
I’m tired and hungry.
3Common mistakes
a house big
a big house — adjective before noun
They are talls.
They are tall. — no -s
a red beautiful sari
a beautiful red sari — opinion first
4Practice quiz
Question 1 of 5Multiple choice
Which word is an adjective?
5Speaking challenge
Speaking challenge
Describe your best friend with 6 adjectives, in full sentences: “She is tall. She is very funny…”.
0:30
Say it out loud. Nobody is listening — that’s the point. Mistakes are allowed.