Descriptive Adjectives

Descriptive adjectives give more information about a person, place, or thing. They tell us about size, color, shape, age, appearance, or personality. We use them to make simple sentences clearer.

Some descriptive adjectives tell us about size. These words show if something is big, small, long, short, tall, or wide.

Some descriptive adjectives tell us about color. We use these words to say what color a person, place, or thing is.

Some descriptive adjectives tell us about shape. These words describe the form of a thing.

Some descriptive adjectives tell us about age. These words show if a person, place, or thing is new, old, young, or ancient.

We also use descriptive adjectives for appearance and personality. Appearance adjectives describe how a person looks. Personality adjectives describe how a person is.

We usually put a descriptive adjective before a noun. The adjective and the noun make a basic noun phrase. One adjective can describe one noun, and more than one adjective can come before the noun.

We can use descriptive adjectives after be to describe the subject. In this pattern, be links the subject and the adjective. The adjective gives information about the subject.

We can combine multiple descriptive adjectives in one noun phrase. These adjectives all come before the noun. The noun stays at the end of the phrase.

You can now use descriptive adjectives to describe people, places, and things in simple English sentences. You can use adjectives for size, color, shape, age, appearance, and personality. You can place adjectives before nouns, use adjectives with be, and combine more than one adjective in one noun phrase.