Adjective

ADJECTIVE AS A PART OF SPEECH

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………….2
CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
1.1.Adjectives………………………………………………………..3
1.2.An attribute and a predicative functions of adjectives ………..7
1.3.Qualitative and relative. ………………………………………...8
1.4.Category of state………………………………………………..11
CHAPTER II. ADJECTIVE AS A PART OF SPEECH
2.1Position of Adjectives…………………………………………..22
2.2Degrees of Comparison ………………………………………..24
2.3 The structure of the analytical degrees of comparison……….28
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………….34
BIBLIOGRAPHY …………………………………………………35


INTRODUCTION

We are going to investigate one of he important parts of speech in modern English. The adjective expresses the categorial semantics of property of a substance. It means that each adjective used in tile text presupposes relation to some noun the property of whose referent it denotes, such as its material, colour, dimensions, position, state, and other characteristics both per­manent and temporary. It follows from this that, unlike nouns, adjectives do not possess a full nominative value. Indeed, words like long, hospitable, fragrant cannot effect any self-dependent nominations; as units of informative sequences they exist only in collocations showing what is long, who is hospitable, what is fragrant.

Adjectives exist in most languages.The most widely recognized adjectives in English are words such as big, old, and tired that actually describe people, places, or things. These words can themselves be modified with adverbs, as in the phrase very big.The articles a, an, and the and possessive nouns, such as Mary's, are classified as adjectives by some grammarians; however, such classification may be specific to one particular language.
The semantically bound character of the adjective is emphasized in English by the use of the prop-substitute one in the absence of the notional head-noun of the phrase. E.g.:
I don't want a yellow balloon, let me have the green one over there.
On the other hand, if the adjective is placed in a nominatively self-dependent position, this leads to its substantivi­zation. E.g.: Outside it was a beautiful day, and the sun tinged the snow with red. Cf.: The sun tinged the snow with the red colour.