Category: Education

Tags: formation of adjectives, positive, comparative, superlative, use of adjectives, adjectives examples

Formation of Adjectives in English Formation of Adjective can be made by adding ‘er’ or ‘est’ after word. Positive, comparative and superlative are forms of Adjectives. "Adjectives are formed from nouns, verbs, and some are formed from other adjectives." There are no simple rules for forming adjectives, but there are common patterns. Suffixes are words used at the end of a word to form a derivative word. By adding such suffixes, many new adjectives can be formed. Suffixes generally added are 'y', 'en', 'ful', 'some', 'al', 'ous', 'less', 'able', 'less', 'ative', 'ish' etc. » Some original adverbs: seldom, always, yesterday, today, tomorrow, here, there, never, well.