TYPES OF ADJECTIVES

- Dr. Maunas Thaker Assistant Professor,

Dr. babasaheb Ambedkar Open Univessity, Ahmedabad

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INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES:

1. To enable the student recall their pre-knowledge about a part of speech- adjective.

2. To enable the student to place the adjectives properly in a sentence.

3. To enable the student to correct the mistakes regarding order of adjectives in a spoken Sentence.

4. To enable the student to frame sentences with proper order of more than one adjectives.

5. To enable the student to frame correct sentences having different types of adjectives.

6. To make the student participate in various activities in the class.

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TESTING PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: The students know Parts of Speech in general and Adjective in particular.

A word used with noun to describe or point out, the person, animal, place or thing which the noun names, or to tell the number or quantity, is called an adjective.

Students know the (traditional) types of Adjective. i.e.

Adjective of Quality: large, nice, honest, foolish, english, round, red, Indian etc.

Adjective of Quantity: some, much, little, enough, all, no, any, great, half, whole, sufficient etc.

Numeral Adjective etc. few, five, no, all, much, all, some, most, several, first, etc.

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INTRODUCTION Conventionally we learn the above mentioned types of adjectives (Quantitative, Qualitative etc.). But we commit mistakes when many different types of adjectives are used in a sentence. e.g.‘Mohan had an old nice book.’: What mistake is committed in this sentence?Check out some more sentences.

My black new bicycle is stolen.- new black bicycle. Harish bought an old nice Gujarati book. -nice old Gujarati book. I have a red round rubber ball.-round red rubber ball.

We often make mistakes in placing adjectives at proper place. So it is necessary to learn the correct order or sequence of the adjectives to be written in a sentence. Let us ldiscuss then about the order of adjectives.

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PRESENTATION OF THE CONTENT MATERIAL:

Adjectives are of following types. These adjectives are placed in a sentence in the order given bellow. “OPSHACOM”

1.Opinion: lazy, good, bad, nice, fine, simple, modern, ordinary, extraordinary, etc.

2.Shape: round, square, rectangular, circle, triangle, 3. Age:new, novel, old, latest, aged, fresh, stale, musty, decayed, recent

etc. 4.Colour:White, black, Red, Blue, Brown, Violet, Pink, Orange,

Yellow. 5. Origin: Indian. American, Gujarati, Australian, British, English,

Spanish, etc. 6. Material: wooden, iron., metal, silver, golden, plastic, paper, air,

liquid, rubber Eg. I have a nice square old brown Indian wooden table. She has a black and white T.V.( adjectives of same type are joined by

‘and’)

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TEACHING METHODS:

Inductive- Deductive Method

Structural approach.

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

Mention the parts of speech used in the following sentence

Neha has worn a beautiful pink sari today.

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

Mohan had an old nice book.

Mohan had a nice old book

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

1. My black new bicycle is stolen.

2. Harish bought an old nice Gujarati book.

3. I have a red round rubber ball.

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

1. My new black bicycle is stolen.

2. Harish bought a nice old Gujarati book.

3. I have a round red rubber ball.

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

I bought a nice round old brown Indian wooden

table.

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Made in India

Made in India

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ORDER OF ADJECTIVESOP SH A C O M

OP - OPINION SH - SHAPE A - AGE C - ORIGIN

O - COLOUR M - MATERIAL

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Prepare one sentence having more than one adjectives on the pictures shown below.

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Source: ES- 344, IGNOU B.Ed. ProgrammeProfessor Grammar http://professorgrammar.com/http://professorgrammar.com/

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