What makes human speech (though written, oral least) the most clear?Without which it would have been poor and inexpressive?Of course, without adjectives.For example, if you read the text of the word "forest" without definitions, you will never understand what is meant.After all, it can be coniferous, deciduous or mixed, winter, spring, summer or autumn.Great Russian language.Qualitative adjective to direct.In order to clearly and accurately represent any picture, we need this wonderful part of the speech.
value and the main features
adjective - a name that indicates the sign of the object, that is, properties that contain characteristics of quality, quantity, accessories.For example, give a certain color, taste, smell;designate estimate the phenomenon, its nature, and so on. d. Usually it asks the question: What (-s, -s)?What (-a -o)?whose (-ya, -e)?This is a significant (self) part of speech.
grammatical features of an adjective are:
- variability of genera (eg, red - masculine, yellow - female, green - medium);
- decline for case (check: nominative - sand, genitive - iron, dative - morning, instrumental - evening; prepositional - on the night);
- opportunity to brief forms and degrees of comparison (qualitative adjectives);
- variability of numbers (for example, blue - the only blue - plural).
syntactic role
- The most common position for an adjective in a sentence - this definition.It often depends on the noun and fully agree with him.Consider the sentence: In the snow were visible deep marks.Traces (what?) Deep.The adjective is defined to be dependent on the noun.Graphically denoted by a wavy line.
- ability to move from one part of speech to another allows the adjective to be a key member of proposals - subject.( example : The patient was admitted to the hospital in serious condition.)
- Quite often in the predicate as the name of the adjectives which occur?Quality in the short form.( compare : He is weak from the disease. - The boy was weak. In the first case, a key member of a verb, the second - an adjective in the compound nominal predicate.)
Adjectives: quality, relative, possessive
This part of the speech isthree digits that differ both in form and in meaning.Consider all of their attributes for comparison in the table.
| quality | relative | Possessive |
| This feature is different from the subject of the degree of manifestation in it.One may be red or whiter, and the other - smaller or larger. Only they can be phrases such adverbs as "insufficient" and "extremely", "very" and "extremely", "very." ability to have a short form: strong, invincible, glorious. To form degrees of comparison may only qualitative adjectives.Examples: sweeter, kinder, the highest. of them can be obtained by repeating difficult words: sweet, cute, blue, blue. | designated by them does not contain any indication of a greater or lesser extent, as a qualitative adjectives.Examples: a nail can not be iron friend, and there is a clay pot of the world. They point to the material from which made, or is the subject of: a wooden floor, sandy beach, gold decoration. shows the location and the proximity to something: house territory, the sea edge. Certificate of Time: February blizzard evening promenade, the year before last. determines the amount of: a child of three, five-foot pointer. Uncover appointment subject: sewing machine, bus, loading platform. not have a short form and degrees of comparison. | means that someone or something belongs to this item.If the tail of the fox, so he fox hat may be the father's or grandmother. main distinguishing feature - the question "whose"? |
quality is different
few more worth looking at the most flexible in the use and definitions of word formation, which are known as qualitative adjectives.Examples of values extremely diverse.They can indicate:
- on the shape of the object: a multi-faceted, round, angular;
- its size: tall, broad, extensive;
- color: orange, dark green, purple;
- smell: foul, incense, fragrant;
- temperature: cold, tepid, hot;
- levels and sound characteristics: quiet, loud, booming;
- overall assessment: the necessary, useful, whatever.
General exclusivity
There is also distinctive features, to know that it is necessary to distinguish between a high-quality, relative and possessive adjectives.So, the first of them have features:
- formation of new words by using the prefix "not": humorless man, an expensive commodity;or diminutive suffixes: gray - gray - gray;
- possibility of selection of synonyms: happy - joyful;bright - brilliant;antonyms: cold - hot, evil - good;
- from qualitative adjectives have their origin adverbs in -o, -e: white - white, gentle - gentle.
Learn more about the comparison between
They also have only qualitative adjectives.Examples of simple comparative degree of education: more visible, darker, longer.Composite comparative degree is a phrase: to add the adjective "less" or "more": less hard, more soft.
Superlative because so called, indicating that the prevalence of sign from one subject over another similar.It can be simple: this education with the help of suffixes -eysh-, -aysh-.For example: the faithful, humble.And compound adjective is used in combination with the word "most": the most wonderful, the most profound.
Can adjectives change their rank?
And again it is worth recalling the broad capabilities of the Russian language.It is possible.Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that high quality, relative and possessive adjectives in context change their value in the category.
For example, in the phrase "glass beads" everyone understands that we are talking about beads made of glass.But the "glass case" - this is a metaphor, it is very fragile, fragile arguments.We can conclude that the relative adjective (first example) turned into quality (second).
If we compare the expression "foxhole" and "fox character", we can see as an accessory animal housing into quality of human nature, which means the possessive adjective was qualitative.
Take for example the two phrases: "rabbit trail" and "hare hat."Prints of little animals - this is not what her headdress.As you can see, the possessive adjective can pass in relative.
