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Attributive adjectives
Attribute adjectives are what you probably think of when you think of adjectives. They’re adjectives that come before the nouns they modify. For example:
She handed me a blue book.
We sat down to a well-made breakfast.
Looking back, it was a fantastic trip.
Predicate adjectives
Unlike attributive adjectives, predicate adjectives come after the nouns they modify. They’re called predicate adjectives because they appear in the predicate section of the sentence (the part that includes the verb and its modifiers, objects and complements). In this way, predicate adjectives act alongside linking verbs or the verb to be. For example:
Coffee is life-giving.
I shouldn’t complain, but they really were slower than promised.
Compound adjectives
A compound adjective contains two words or more. Usually, these words have hyphens between them — particularly if they’re placed before the noun. For example:
It’s turn-of-the-century architecture.
My mother loves home-made bread.
The bill was bigger than anticipated.
Coordinate adjectives
Coordinate adjectives are multiple adjectives that are equal in rank and modify the same word. Each coordinate adjective applies individually to the noun, and neither is more important or fundamental to the meaning of the noun than the other. You should use a comma or the word and to separate coordinate adjectives. For example:
She is a knowledgeable and experienced instructor.
She is a knowledgeable, experienced instructor.
I have written a book that is long, dense, and convoluted.
I have written a long, dense, convoluted book.
I have written a long, dense and convoluted book.
Noncoordinate adjectives
Unlike coordinate adjectives, noncoordinate adjectives are not equal in rank (although they do modify the same word). Because of this, they are not separated by a comma or and.Simply put, each additional noncoordinate adjective modifies the existing adjective(s) and noun as a single unit. For example:
They bought her a bright warehouse apartment. (Here, the first and most important adjective warehouse joins with apartment, so that the adjective bright modifies the single unit warehouse apartment).
It was a complicated interview question. (Like the first example, complicated modifies interview question as one unit).
It was a dusty old leather-bound diary. (It doesn’t matter how many adjectives you add — each one modifies the existing adjective or adjectives and noun as a single unit. So old modifies leather-bound diary as one unit, and dusty modifies old leather-bound diary).
Find out how to order noncoordinate adjectives below.
Proper adjectives
Think of proper adjectives as proper nouns turned into adjectives. A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place or thing, like Benjamin or Australia or Pizza Hut. A proper adjective is that proper noun used as an adjective. For example:
That’s how it was during Elizabethan times.
I’ve been studying Australian history.
How very Machiavellian of you.
Absolute adjectives
Absolute adjectives describe nouns without comparing them to anything else. They describe them because of their own qualities, and not because of their connection to anything else. For example:
He was tall.
The gathering was large.
The room was messy.
Comparative adjectives
On the other hand, comparative adjectives, compare two or more things. For example:
The taller brother wasn’t there.
The gathering was larger than last year’s.
The room was messier than I’d expected.
Superlative adjectives
Finally, superlative adjectives are like super-comparative adjectives: they describe nouns as being the most kind of something or having the greatest amount of a particular quality. For example:
He was the tallest of all the brothers.
The largest gathering was three years ago.
It was the messiest room I’d ever seen.