M. Iriskulov, A. Kuldashev a course in Theoretical English Grammar Tashkent 2008

Substantivization of Adjectives 
 
As is known adjectives under certain circumstances can be substantivized, 
i.e. become nouns. 
B. Khaimovich (22) states that "when adjectives are converted into nouns 
they no longer indicate attributes of substances but substances possessing these at-
tributes. 
B. Khaimovich (22) speaks of two types of substantivization full and partial. 
By full substantivization he means when an adjective gets all the morphological 
features of nouns, like: native, a native, the native, natives. But all the partial 
substantivization he means when adjectives get only some of the morphological 
features of nouns, as far instance, the adjective “rich” having substantivized can be 
used only with the definite article: the rich. 
B. Ilyish (15) is almost of the same opinion: we shall confine ourselves to 
the statement that these words are partly substantivized and occupy an intermediate 
position. 

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More detailed consideration of the problem shows that the rich and others 
are not partial substantivization. All the substantivized adjectives can be explained 
within the terms of nouns. (37) 
 
Self-control questions 
 
1. What are the most important characteristic features of adjectives? 
2. Why do we have to differentiate the qualitative and relative adjectives? 
3. How are the comparative and superlative of adjectives formed? 
4. What adjectives form their degrees by both inflections and words more and 
most? 
5. Are their adjectives that form their degrees of comparison by means of 
suppletion? 
6. What do you understand by substantivization? 
7. Are the words "more" and "most" lexical or grammatical means when, they form 
the degrees of comparison of adjectives? 
8. What adjectives form their comparative and superlative by root-vowel and final-
consonant change?