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Communication Skills-I

Notes 11.4.1 Describing Things

Adjectives are words that describe people and things. Let’s see some of the common words that
are
How much/many: a/an, one, three, some, a few, several, a lot of etc.

Example: The box contained a few cookies.
What’s it like: beautiful, nice, ugly, clean, dirty, cheap, expensive etc.

Example: Ravi bought an expensive car.
How big: little, small, medium sized, average-size, large, big, long etc.

Example: Diana has long hair.
What shape: square, round, oval, rectangular, pointed, triangular, fl at

Example: Ram brought a round cake for his sister’s birthday.
How old: old, new, modern, antique, 19th century, 1930s, 1982

Example: Shyam gifted an antique artwork to his parents on their anniversary.
What colour: pale, light, bright, dark, red, yellow, green, blue, brown, black, white etc.

Example: Rama is wearing a light coloured t-shirt.
What’s the pattern: check, striped, plain, flowered, spotted etc.

Example: Varun is wearing a striped shirt.
Where’s it from: Indian, French, English, Japanese, German, Italian, Roman, Parisian etc.

Example: Indian athletes put up a great show at the Asian Games.
What’s it made of: silk, cotton, wooden, leather, gold, metal, paper etc.

Example: Dev bought a new leather jacket.

11.4.2 Adding Information

An adjective can add information about a noun by standing immediately before it:

Examples: 1. A big house
2. A new car

These adjectives modify the nouns. They make the meaning more specific. An adjective can also
add information about a noun by being linked to it by a verb:

Examples: 1. The house is big
2. The car is new

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