What are adjectives?
Adjectives are words that describe or give extra information about the qualities of a noun, a noun phrase or clause.
noun: an old filmnoun phrase an interesting movie for everyone to seeclause: It's unbelievable that we have not seen it yet.
Read the following passage and find the adjectives:
John Boorman's provocative, exciting and compelling thriller takes American poet James Dickey's novel to giddy heights of suspenseful stress and proves that Burt Reynolds can act. Central to the success of Boorman's culture clash nightmare, and what makes it resonate with such a rare intensity, is the powerful theme of red-blooded masculinity under a hostile threat.
Adjectives related to nouns or verbs:
beautiful ==> beauty (noun)drinkable ==> drink (verb)dangerous ==> danger (noun)talkative ==> talk (verb)
These adjectives often have suffixes or endings. I some cases the original noun or verb does not survive in common usuage.
impeccablepaternalimmaculateAmericanfragrantintelligenttruthfulSocialistimpressiveuselessobligatorycourageouswinsomestreetwisedusty
Participle forms:
The following examples are taken from the verb (to) bore.
Am I boring you? I haven't bored you, have I?
Boring is the present participle and bored is the past participle. Many adjectives have the same form as participles (examples: boring, bored, broken, breaking, closed, closing, exciting, excited)

Where do adjectives come in a sentence?
Single Adjectives
There are two usual sentence positions for single adjectives:

• before a noun (within a noun phrase)
• after a noun or a pronoun and a verb

Before a noun
a very old story
After a noun or pronoun and verb
It is cold
It is getting dark
Order of adjectives

1. size
2. shape
3. color
4. origin
5. material
6. use
7. noun

Example:a large sleeveless blue Italian woolen sailing vest