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Adjectives

• Form
• Use
• Adjectives ending in -ING
• Adjectives ending in -ED
• Position
• Word order with more than one one adjective
• Common Expressions

Form

En inglés los adjetivos no tienen plural ni género, se adecuan al género y número del sustantivo al que acompañan:
That's a nice picture
Those are really fashionable sunglasses!

Use

• Los adjetivos dan información acerca de un nombre:
  The sky is cloudy.
  It's a gorgeous ring.
  You are a nice easy-going person.
• Identifican a las personas y las cosas:
  I want the oval, wooden box.
  They live in the house with the green door.

Adjectives ending in -ING

• Describen personas, animales o cosas y nos dan la opinión que de ellos tiene otra persona:
  Keith thought the conference was interesting.
  Patty was a fascinating woman.
  Pit-bull terries are frightening dogs.

Adjectives ending in -ED

• Solo se pueden usar con personas y animales.
• Indican cómo se siente la persona o el animal con respecto a otra persona o a otra cosa:
  Keith was really interested in the conference.
  The kids are not frightened when they are alone.
• A menudo los adjetivos que acaban en ed van seguidos de una preposición:
  I felt embarrassed by the situation.
  He gets involved in what he does.
  I'm very satisfied with the results.

Position

• Se colocan delante del nombre al que acompañan:
  I'd like a strawberry and coconut ice-cream, please.
• Se pueden colocar detrás de cualquier tiempo del verbo be:
  The cottage was cute.
  The song will be a hit.
• Cuando el vebo principal es be u otro verbo de unión (copulativo) como turn, grow, become, look o seem, el adjetivo puede ir después del verbo:
  Your father looks tired.
  That child is smart.
• Hay un grupo especial de adjetivos que no pueden ir delante del nombre y que solo pueden ir detrás del verbo, por ejemplo, afraid, alive, asleep, awake:
  The baby is awake.
  You look afraid.

Word order with more than one adjective

• El orden de los adjetivos suele ser el siguiente:  
• En la práctica, no se suelen utilizar más de tres adjetivos delante del sustantivo:
  A beautiful Persian silk carpet.
  A long winding coast road.
  A smart young Spanish student.
• A veces es posible sustituir los adjetivos por frases preposicionales o subordinadas relativas:
  A smart young student from Spain.
  A long and winding road, which runs along the coast.
• Cuando colocamos dos adjetivos detrás del verbo be, normalmente los unimos con and.
  The weather in Spain is hot and dry.
  My suitcase is too big and heavy for me.

Common Expressions

To be yellow	To be a coward
To feel blue	To be sad
To be green with envy	To be jealous
To be green	To be naive
To be black and blue	To be bruised or hurt

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