Level: beginner
We use adjectives to describe nouns.
Most adjectives can be used in front of a noun:
They have a beautiful house.
We saw a very exciting film last night.
or after a link verb like be, look or feel:
Their house is beautiful.
That film looks interesting.
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Hello, dear teachers and team!
Could you please help me with the following:
Is it correct to say "She bought not fashionable dress", "I ate not tasty pizza" and for example:
A: Are you laughing because of the film?
B: No. I have watched not funny film.
Thank you very much for your precious help and I'm grateful for your answer to this comment in advance!!!
Hi howtosay_,
A couple of corrections are needed. Dress and film are singular countable nouns, and they need an article: a not fashionable dress and a not funny film. The word pizza can be countable or uncountable, so you can say a not tasty pizza if you mean one whole pizza.
However, it still sounds quite unusual to say I ate a not tasty pizza. It isn't common to put "not" + adjective before the noun. It is preferred to phrase it some other way, for example:
I hope that helps.
Jonathan
LearnEnglish team
Thanks alot, that's was very helpful
Sir, in my question paper I saw the phrase ''time allowed''. Is that the word ''allowed'' past tense? And can I use ''semester'' as an adjective like ( the first semester examination).
Hi JameK,
Here, "allowed" is a past participle, which functions as an adjective describing "time".
Yes, "semester" here functions as an adjective, describing "examination".
I hope that helps.
Jonathan
The LearnEnglish Team
Thank you Sir. Sir could you explain me more. The adjective that I have known is preceded before noun like
"good boy, beautiful girl'' and after the verb like ''I am busy, She is clever''. Could you give me more example. Thanks a bunch.
Hello JameK,
If you're referring to 'time allowed', I think it's best to think of that as an abbreviated form of 'The time you are allowed' or 'The time that is allowed'.
As for 'semester examination', 'semester' is a noun modifier. Follow the link to see an explanation of this grammar.
All the best,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Thank you Sir.
Hello sir , could you help me with this sentence it sound interesting are we should say it interesting sound ? Because i think interesting is adjective and sound is noun ?
Hello g-ssan,
These are two different things.
'It sounds interesting' is a sentence -- 'it' is the subject, 'sounds' is the link verb and 'interesting' is an adjective. It means that 'it' is something that interests us. 'sounds' doesn't actually refer to a sound here -- it's another way of saying 'is' really.
'an interesting sound' is a noun phrase -- 'an' is a determiner' and 'interesting' is an adjective that tells us more about the noun 'sound'. It's referring to a sound that we find interesting.
I hope this clarifies it for you, but if not, please don't hesitate to ask again.
All the best,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
thanks, that’s was very helpful.