Participle Adjectives for intermediate learners

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Participle adjectives are the same form as participles with the same characteristics with adjectives.

What Are Participle Adjectives?

Participle adjectives are adjectives that are formed using a main verb.

Types of Participle Adjectives

There are two types of participle adjectives that are named participle adjectives because they look like present participles and past participles.

Verb + '-ed' (past participle)
Verb + '-ing' (present participle)

Here are a few examples:

The book is interesting.

He was excited.

Present Participle

The present participle is formed by adding -ing to the main verb. Here are a few examples:

You are annoying.

The play was boring.

Past Participle

Past participles are formed by adding an '-ed' to the main verbs. Look at some examples:

I became happy when you called.

He is bored.

Review

Participles can be used to show the cause and effect of feelings between people or things. They are categorized into two groups:

Past participle
Present participle

Attributive and Predicative Adjectives

An attributive adjective is an adjective that appears before the noun or pronoun it describes. In this lesson, we will learn more about them.

Compound Adjectives

Compound adjectives are used as one single adjective. They function as the head of the sentence. In this lesson, we will learn all about them.

Proper Adjectives

Proper adjectives are commonly used in English. They tend to modify nouns and pronouns. in this lesson, we will learn more about them.

Postpositive Adjectives

Post-positive adjectives or postnominal adjectives are mainly placed immediately after the noun. In this lesson, we will learn all about them.

Gradable and Ungradable Adjectives

'Gradable' means being able to put something into different grades. So, What are the differences between gradable and ungradable adjectives?

Comparable and Non-comparable Adjectives

Descriptive adjectives are categorized into two main groups including: classifying adjectives and qualifying adjectives. We will learn more in this lesson.

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