What are adjectives?
Adjectives are describing words and the most commonly used words in English. They are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns. They can also describe the number (quantity) of nouns.
Adjectives are words that describe places, things, or people. Tall, thin, and fat are examples of adjectives.
TO BE + ADJECTIVE
Adjectives are usually placed before the nouns they modify, but when used with linking verbs, such as forms of TO Be, they are placed after the verb. So it becomes TO BE + ADJECTIVE
Some examples of To be + adjective:
- She is short.
- He is angry.
- It is square.
- We are hot.
- You are sad.
TO BE + NOT + ADJECTIVE
To make a negative sentence we use TO BE + NOT + ADJECTIVE.
eg: Lara is angry.
What is the opposite angry? It is happy.
So in TO BE + NOT + ADJECTIVE is:
Lara is happy.
Our examples from our TO + BE + ADJECTIVES EXAMPLES … now let’s turn them into TO BE + NOT + ADJECTIVE.
- She is tall.
- He is happy.
- It is round.
- We are cold.
- You are cheerful.
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