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Adjectives: forms

Unlike in many other languages, adjectives in English do not change (agree) with the noun that they modify:

All new foreign students are welcome to join the clubs and societies.

Not: All new foreigns students …

Every room was painted in different colours .

Not: … in differents colours .

Identifying adjectives

There is no general rule for making adjectives. We know they are adjectives usually by what they do (their function) in a sentence. However, some word endings (suffixes) are typical of adjectives.

Adjectives ending in -ic and -ical often have different meanings:

The economic policy of this government has failed.

A diesel car is usually more economical than a petrol one.

Classic or classical ?

Economic or economical ?

Historic or historical ?

Forming adjectives from other words

Some adjectives are made from nouns and verbs by adding suffixes.

I hate windy days.

San Francisco is a very hilly place.

Some words ending in -ly can be both adjectives and adverbs. These include daily , early , monthly , weekly , nightly , yearly :

Adjective: She gets a weekly payment from her parents. (She gets money every week.)

Adverb: I pay my rent weekly . (I pay my rent every week.)

Some words ending in - ly are only adjectives and not adverbs. These include: costly , cowardly , deadly , friendly , likely , lonely , lovely , oily , orderly , scholarly , silly , smelly , timely , ugly , woolly .

We enjoyed the trip to America but it was a costly holiday.

Oily fish is very healthy because it contains omega 3.

Word formation

Prefixes such as un-, in-, im- , il- and ir- change the meaning of adjectives. Adding these prefixes makes the meaning negative:

Adjectives: comparative and superlative

Many one-syllable adjectives have endings to show the comparative and superlative.

Some two-syllable adjectives which end in an unstressed syllable also have these endings.

However, we do not use these endings with two-syllable adjectives ending in a stressed syllable nor with longer adjectives with more than two syllables. The comparatives and superlatives of these adjectives are formed using more and most .

Comparative and superlative adjectives

Adjectives: with - ing and - ed ( interesting , interested )

We use the - ing and - ed forms of regular and irregular verbs as adjectives:

Adjectives with - ing and - ed endings have different meanings.

Commonly confused pairs of adjectives ending in - ing and - ed are: interesting , interested ; boring , bored ; exciting , excited ; embarrassing , embarrassed .

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Adjective Formation in English Grammar

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Forming English adjectives

We can create adjectives from nouns , verbs or even other adjectives by using suffixes (endings) and prefixes (letters placed before the word).

Although there are many common prefixes and suffixes, there are no fixed rules that tell us when to use which one. The best way to learn is through repetition and practice – which is why Lingolia offers plenty of online exercises to help you master English adjectives.

Many adjectives are formed by adding suffixes (endings) to nouns and verbs .

Many suffixes only fulfil a grammatical role and simply indicate that the word is now an adjective, but there are some suffixes that carry their own meaning:

• The suffix -less means without something , whereas the suffix -ful usually means to have something .
• However, only few adjectives can be made into opposite pairs like this.
• We can add the suffix -ish to nouns and adjectives to change their meaning to like something.
• For some materials, we can add the suffix -en to create adjectives that mean made of.
• When added to a verb , the suffix -able creates adjectives that express ability .

Spelling rules

Usually, we just add the suffix to the end of the verb or noun.

However, sometimes we must add, remove or change letters before adding a suffix.

• We double the final consonant after a short stressed vowel.
• A -y at the end of a word becomes -i.
• We remove the final -e if the suffix begins with a vowel, but - ee , - oe and - ye stay the same.

The table below shows a list of common suffixes we can add to nouns to form adjectives:

Adjective or Adverb?

As shown in the table, the suffix -ly can be used to make adjectives from nouns.

But wait! I hear you ask, I thought -ly is the ending for adverbs and not adjectives?

Actually, it’s both!

• Some words ending in -ly are purely adjectives:
• Some words ending in -ly are solely adverbs :
• And some words ending in -ly are both:

The difference depends on how they are used in a sentence. Head over to our page all about adjectives vs. adverbs in English grammar to learn more!

The table below shows some of the most common suffixes we can add to verbs to form adjectives:

*-ed or -ing ?

Some adjectives formed from verbs can have two possible endings: - ed or -ing.

The difference between -ed and -ing adjectives is as follows:

• -ed adjectives describe a person’s feelings .
• -ing adjectives describe the effect of a noun. Adjectives ending in -ing describe the thing or person that causes a feeling. Example: Erica’s job is boring . = the job bores Erica

Be careful! Confusing the -ed and -ing endings can completely change the meaning of a sentence.

See participles and confusing words for more information and exercises on the difference between -ed and -ing .

Adjectives that describe nationality are always written with capital letters.

• We usually form country adjectives by adding -n to the end of the word. Example: America → American Russia → Russian Australia → Australian
• But we can also use -ese, -i, -ian and -ish to build country adjectives. Example: Japan → Japanese Iraq → Iraqi Ukraine → Ukrainian

The table below provides an overview of country adjectives.

• Some countries have irregular forms. Example: Germany → German France → French Greece → Greek Switzerland → Swiss Ireland → Irish

For a detailed list of countries, languages and adjectives see: List of Countries and Nationalities

Most adjectives in English have an opposite. Often, these word pairs are completely different to one another:

However, we can also use prefixes to form opposite adjectives.

il-, im- and ir-

The prefixes il-, im- and ir- are only used before particular letters:

• il- comes before words that start with an - l
• im- comes before words that start with an - m or a - p
• ir- comes before words that start with an - r

The table below shows the most common adjectives that form their opposites with the prefixes il-, im- and ir-:

dis-, in- and un-

The most common prefixes for forming opposite adjectives are un- , dis-, and in-.

Unlike the prefixes above, there are no fixed rules as to which letters can follow the prefixes un-, dis- and in- . The table below shows some typical examples:

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Adjectives: the essentials

Adjectives are one of the main classes of words in any language.  How they work and how they are used, however, vary.

By the end of this guide, you should be able to understand and apply these technical concepts (and there's a test at the end):

An adjective is usually defined something like

a word grammatically attached to a noun to modify or describe it

Easy question: Spot the adjectives in these examples:

• The tall trees bent in the fierce winds.
• He finally came along half an hour late for the first meeting.
• The green-jacketed, first-form students looked nervous.
• The audience was fascinated by the short lecture.
• The policeman involved in the nasty incident was quite upset.
• The small, green sports car was thoroughly washed and polished till it shone as bright as a new pin.

Click here when you have answers .

The adjectives are highlighted in black in the following:

• The green-jacketed , first-form students looked nervous .
• The policeman involved in the nasty incident was quite upset .
• The small , green sports car was thoroughly washed and polished till it shone as bright as a new pin.

Some are easier to identify than others, aren't they?  Here are some comments:

• Adjectives in English usually come before the noun they modify.  We can see this with tall trees, fierce winds, first meeting, green-jacketed, first-form students, short lecture, nasty incident, small, green sports car and new pin. This use of adjectives is called attributive . Some adjectives are only used attributively.  Examples are entire, outright, pure .  We can have, e.g.:     He ate the entire packet     It was the pure truth and     That was an outright lie but we can't say:     *The packet was entire     *The truth was pure or     *The lie was outright
• In sentences 3., 4. and 5., however, we have the alternative adjective position: looked nervous , was fascinated , was quite upset . Here the adjectives follow the noun they modify and are connected to it either by the verb be or by another verb which works in the same way.  These are called, incidentally, copular verb s and one of their functions is to connect a noun with its adjective.  Other copular verbs include seem, appear, get, grow, smell, taste, become .  There's a guide to copular verbs on this site, linked below in the list of related guides. This use of adjectives is called predicative . Some adjectives can only be used predicatively.  Examples are asleep, awake, alive, alert etc.  They start with a- .  We can't say     *The asleep dog and we need to say     The dog is / was / seems asleep for example.

There are two oddballs in the examples:

• the policeman involved A few adjectives in English can (and sometimes must) follow the noun and they include involved, concerned, proper, elect and some others.  The use of the adjective is still attributive, not predicative, because there is no connecting copular verb.  They need not concern us here.
• shone as bright as a new pin The adjective bright is actually acting as an adverb modifying the verb shone .  It tells us how the car shone, not what the car was like.  That's an unusual use of an adjective which will also not concern us here.  Many people would prefer bright ly here but the use of an adjective form as an adverb is actually quite common informally.

Did you identify any of the following as adjectives: finally, quite, thoroughly, washed, polished, bright ?

If you did:

• Words which modify a verb as in finally came and thoroughly washed (i.e., which tell us when or how something was done) are adverbs, not adjectives.
• The other issue is that we can't tell an adjective just by looking at its form.  We need to know what it is doing in the sentence.  The words washed and polished are certainly used as adjectives as in, e.g., the washed carpet or the polished glasswa re, but in the examples above they are simply verbs (past participle forms, in fact).

There are two simple tests for adjectives:

• We can make comparatives either by adding - er or - est or by putting more / most before them
• We can modify them with the adverb very

Try these tests with the adjectives we have encountered so far.  What do you notice? Click here when you have done that .

• Some adjectives simply cannot be made more or less: you are either first or you aren't, something is either impossible or it isn't.  Such adjectives are called ungradable .
• The second reason is that some adjectives tell us what class of thing we are dealing with.  For example, French cheese tells us what sort of cheese we are talking about, sports car tells us what sort of car it is.  These are called classifiers and cannot be modified this way.  An adjective which is not a classifier is called an epithet .
• We can also have v ery tall , very fierce , very nervous , very upset , very new and so on.  There's some argument whether we can have very first in this sense, because very means truly here, or very fascinated because fascinated is usually considered too strong a word to be modified by very .  Compare it with very amazing, very dreadful, very astounding etc.  These adjectives, sometimes called extreme adjectives , are not usually gradable with very (we prefer adverbs such as completely, totally, extremely etc. to modify them).  See the guide to gradability, linked in the list at the end, for more.

There are a number of other tests for adjectives.  For more, see the more advanced guide to this area, linked below.

Adjectives can be made comparative or superlative. Comparative structures are, for example:     Mary is taller than John     Mary is more intelligent than me Superlative structures single out one as the highest form of the adjective, e.g.:     She is the fittest person for the job     That is the most ridiculous idea of them all The rules for how we make the forms apply to both.

English has two ways to compare adjectives:

• We can add - er or - est to the end of the adjective (dropping an 'e' or changing 'y' to 'i' where we need to).  This is called inflexion .
• We can add more or most before the adjective.  This is called a periphrastic form.

Try modifying the adjectives here and work out what the rules are.  Click on the table when you have the answer.  The following focuses on the comparative form but the superlatives follow the same rules.

There are some irregular ones (as in most languages) including, e.g., far-further/farther, good-better-best, bad-worse-worst etc. and there's a bit more to it than that but this is the simplest explanation. There is a more complete (and more technical) guide to comparison in the in-service section, linked below.

Many books for students delight in giving complex and elaborate rules for why we say, for example:

• small, brown house not brown, small house
• tall citrus trees not citrus tall trees
• rude English tourists not English rude tourists
• ugly, fat, porcelain, Chinese vases not porcelain, Chinese, fat, ugly vases

But actually the general rule is quite simple.  Any ideas?  Click when you have some .

• Classifiers like, English, Chinese and  citrus go closest to the noun.  Some classifiers are inseparable from the noun, e.g., school boys .  They form a compound.
• Adjectives which are ungradable (i.e., cannot be more or less so) come next.  The example here is porcelain .  Something is either porcelain or it isn't.  Often these relate to the material something is made of.
• Adjectives which are gradable but not very arguable come next.  The examples here are fat and tall .
• Adjectives which are a matter of opinion come furthest from the noun.  The example here is ugly (and probably, rude )).

The simple way to present this is on a cline, like this:

There is a bit more to this and for some detail, you should refer to the in-service guide to adjectives, linked below.

There is, of course, a test on this .

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Definition of assignment noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• Students are required to complete all homework assignments.
• You will need to complete three written assignments per semester.
• a business/special assignment
• I had set myself a tough assignment.
• on an assignment She is in Greece on an assignment for one of the Sunday newspapers.
• on assignment one of our reporters on assignment in China
• The students handed in their assignments.
• The teacher gave us an assignment on pollution.
• Why did you take on this assignment if you're so busy?
• He refused to accept the assignment.
• assignment on

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Describing Words

This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org . Here are some adjectives for assignment : . You can get the definitions of these assignment adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to assignment (and find more here ).

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Words to Describe assignment

Below is a list of describing words for assignment . You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe assignment :

• tedious and unglamorous
• special and rather remarkable
• diligent and difficult
• rather diligent and difficult
• present, urgent
• rancid previous
• overly stressful
• critical, high-priority
• your previous
• unpleasant, no-win
• rather diligent
• extremely rewarding
• difficult but extremely rewarding
• daring special
• dreadful and thankless
• major and important
• last undercover
• pointless, idiotic
• neonational
• current undercover
• important, parallel
• extraordinary attractive
• disastrous undercover
• deadly covert
• murderously tough
• damn tougher
• extremely easy and pleasant
• genuine, responsible
• casional commercial
• liable such
• all-out, incautious
• treacherous and delicate
• approval and regular
• present ceremonial
• wholesale, omnibus
• mere agrarian
• extremely touchy
• horrifyingly simple
• last criminal
• covert and impossibly dangerous
• impressive or pampered
• similar token
• daunting and unusual
• farthest and most dangerous
• routine and safe
• tricky undercover
• byresidential
• ly arbitrary
• difficult tech�nical
• long-term temporary
• cross-departmental
• relatively long-term
• two-month protective
• special mutant
• wrong or inappropriate
• sensitive and potentially dangerous
• special occasional
• lengthy undercover
• variable and random
• easy taxonomical
• deep-space, long-term
• horribly memorable
• official janitorial
• pe­ripheral
• exact preliminary
• purely bucolic
• unanimous recent
• deliberate final
• original key
• normal, peaceful
• gravely important
• less prestigious
• further little
• top-secret presidential
• earliest and smallest
• original generic
• your present
• unpleasant but important
• alien diplomatic
• present ill-defined
• grim secondary
• free, special
• non-colonial
• safe, productive
• occasional freelance
• exciting foreign
• awkward new
• least skilled
• insignificant, out-of-the-way
• pe\-ripheral
• thoroughly desirable
• otherwise serious
• special independent
• relatively routine

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As you've probably noticed, adjectives for " assignment " are listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe assignment suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, " assignment " isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many assignment adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is assignment ?

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the " HasProperty " API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: " woman " versus " man " and " boy " versus " girl ". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms . If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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Adjective Worksheets

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These grammar worksheets help grade 1-3 students learn to recognize and use adjectives . Adjectives are words that describe nouns. All worksheets are pdf files.

Grade 1 adjectives worksheets

• Identifying adjectives from a list of words
• Choosing adjectives to describe pictures
• Completing sentences with adjectives from a word bank
• Write sentences with adjectives

Grade 2 adjectives worksheets

• Identifying adjectives in sentences
• Adjectives which come after nouns
• Writing sentences with adjectives
• Using 2 adjectives in a sentence
• Comparative adjectives
• Alliterations

Grade 3 adjectives worksheets

• Identifying adjective and nouns from a list
• Complete sentences with adjectives
• Writing adjectives to make sentences more interesting
• Comparing with adjectives
• Comparative and superlative adjectives

Grade 4 adjectives worksheets

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Grade 5 adjectives worksheets

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Thesaurus Definition of assignment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• responsibility
• undertaking
• requirement
• designation
• appointment
• authorization
• installment
• installation
• destination
• emplacement
• investiture
• singling (out)

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• dethronement

Synonym Chooser

How does the noun assignment contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of assignment are chore , duty , job , stint , and task . While all these words mean "a piece of work to be done," assignment implies a definite limited task assigned by one in authority.

When is it sensible to use chore instead of assignment ?

While the synonyms chore and assignment are close in meaning, chore implies a minor routine activity necessary for maintaining a household or farm.

When is duty a more appropriate choice than assignment ?

Although the words duty and assignment have much in common, duty implies an obligation to perform or responsibility for performance.

When might job be a better fit than assignment ?

The synonyms job and assignment are sometimes interchangeable, but job applies to a piece of work voluntarily performed; it may sometimes suggest difficulty or importance.

When could stint be used to replace assignment ?

In some situations, the words stint and assignment are roughly equivalent. However, stint implies a carefully allotted or measured quantity of assigned work or service.

When can task be used instead of assignment ?

The meanings of task and assignment largely overlap; however, task implies work imposed by a person in authority or an employer or by circumstance.

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“Assignment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignment. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.

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An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. It is used as a describing word. Adjectives can describe how much, how many, what color or number. Adjectives can make a reading more interesting because they bring description to the noun.

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Underlining Adjectives Worksheet

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Circling and Writing Adjectives Worksheet

Pictures Adjectives Worksheet Part 1

Pictures Adjectives Worksheet Part 2

How Many Adjectives Worksheet

Number and Color Adjectives Worksheet

Spelling with Adjectives Worksheet

Fun Adjectives Review Worksheets

Adjectives Review Worksheets

Adjectives Tell How Many Worksheets

Describing How Many Adjectives Worksheets

What Kind Adjectives Worksheets

Adjectives that Tell What Kind Worksheets

Adjectives that Tell Which Ones Worksheets

This,That,These,Those Adjectives Worksheets

Grades 6-8 Regular Adjectives Worksheets

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Practicing Adjectives Worksheet Part 1

Practicing Adjectives Worksheet Part 2

Writing Adjectives Worksheet

Circling and Writing Adjective Worksheet

Underlining Adjective Worksheet

Capitalizing Adjectives Worksheet

General and Precise Adjectives Worksheet

Adjectives to Express Opinion Worksheet

Adjectives in Context Worksheet

Writing Sentences with Adjectives Worksheet

Demonstrative Adjectives Worksheet

Possessive Adjectives Worksheet

Descriptive Adjectives Worksheet

Grades 9-12 Regular Adjectives Worksheets

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Adjectives List Worksheet

Fun with Adjectives Worksheet

Writing with Adjectives Worksheet

Adjectives Practice Worksheet

Writing Sentences with Adjective Worksheet

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Adverb and adjective exercises (elementary)

• exercise 1 : game: recognize the adverb
• exercise 2 : identify and write the adverb
• exercise 3 : identify and write the adverb
• exercise 4 : fill in the correct form of the adjective or adverb
• exercise 5 : form adverbs from adjectives
• exercise 6 : form adverbs from adjectives

Adverb and adjective exercises (intermediate)

• exercise 1 : choose the correct form of the adjective or adverb
• exercise 2 : fill in the correct form of the adjective or adverb
• exercise 3 : fill in the correct form of the adjective or adverb
• exercise 4 : choose the adjective or adverb
• exercise 5 : fill the adjective or adverb
• exercise 6 : fill in the correct form of the adjective or adverb
• exercise 7 : fill in the correct form of the adjective or adverb (plus explanation)
• exercise 8 : decide if there is an adjective or an adverb in each sentence
• exercise 9 : choose the adjective or adverb
• exercise 10 : choose the adjective or adverb (scroll down the page)

Adverb and adjective (advanced): adjectives and adverbs with the same form (He works hard , A hard worker) and two forms of the adverb having different meanings (He hardly worked)

• exercise 1 : choose the adjective or adverb (in combination with linking verbs)
• exercise 2 : choose the correct adverb (adverbs with two forms)
• exercise 3 : adjectives and adverbs with the same form: determine which is which
• exercise 4 : choose between  hard and  hardly
• exercise 5 : use the appropriate form of the adverb

The order of adjectives (e.g. a stunning green and yellow Indonesian sarong)

• exercise 1 : choose which answer is the usual order of adjectives
• exercise 2 : place the adjectives in the correct order in the sentence
• exercise 3 : put the words in order to form a phrase
• exercise 4 : choose correct order of adjectives
• exercise 5 : c lick on the words to form a phrase
• exercise 6 : choose which answer is the usual order of adjectives
• exercise 7 : various exercises for practising the order of adjectives
• exercise 8 : put the words in order to form a phrase

Adjectives which end in -ed en -ing (interested – interesting)

• exercise 1 : choose the adjective which ends in -ed or the adjective ending in -ing
• exercise 2 : choose the adjective which ends in -ed or the adjective ending in -ing
• exercise 3 : choose the adjective which ends in -ed or the adjective ending in -ing
• exercise 4 : fill in the adjective which ends in -ed or the adjective ending in -ing
• exercise 5 : choose the adjective which ends in -ed or the adjective ending in -ing

Adjectives used as nouns (the old, the rich, etc.)

• exercise 1 : multiple choice exercise about ‘the + adjective’
• exercise 2 : multiple choice exercise about ‘the + adjective’

Nouns as adjectives

• exercise 1 : choose the correct adjective (scroll down the page)
• exercise 2 : choose the correct phrase

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