Adjectives | Types, Functions and Endings of Adjectives | Usage & examples | English Grammar lesson
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2019
- Adjectives | Types, Functions and Endings of Adjectives | Usage & examples | English Grammar lesson
A very useful lesson for students and teachers on a large number of inter-related items that are often taught very inefficiently across grades spending time and effort and getting nothing in return. Clear your confusions with Usha Pandit who will show the steps in sorting out the complications. Do not miss this video and watch it to the end. Exercises are given at the end of this description. You will be able to do them in a jiffy.
This 19 minute video packs a lot of punch. It will show you how to create incredibly powerful adjectives for your writing tasks. It will give you help to build a fabulous vocabulary using adjective endings.
Furthermore, it will not only teach you 5 types of adjectives, but also 5 types of pronouns in a few minutes, functionally and logically, so that you never forget any of them. It's miraculous.
If you are a teacher, this video is likely to be a great time saver, and very effective in making sure all your students deliver excellent understanding of complex items like Demonstrative, Possessive, Distributive, Comparative and Interrogative adjectives and corresponding pronouns. You will understand the close bond between adjectives and pronouns.
One type of adjective and pronoun missing in this video is the Indefinite Adjective and Indefinite Pronoun. 'Indefinite' means uncertain. The word 'some' in 'some girls' is indefinite because we are not sure if it stands for 10 girls or 100 girls. A definite adjective would give us a definite number such as 'Fifteen girls are going.' In the sentence: 'Some girls are going.' the word 'some' is an indefinite adjective qualifying the noun 'girls'. If we say: 'Some are going.' Then the 'some' in this sentence is an indefinite pronoun standing for the noun 'girls'.
Watch the video, and then do the following exercise to see how much you have understood.
Exercise:
There are two of the same words in each sentence, except no 5 which has the words 'good' and 'better' for identification.
Say whether the words are are adjectives or pronouns.
1. Demonstrative adjective or demonstrative pronoun?
This photograph was taken by my grandmother when we went to Chamundi Hills, and this is her next to my uncle.
2. Possessive adjective or Possessive pronoun?
Mine is melting, but your ice cream seems to be firm and eatable.
3. Distributive adjective or Distributive pronoun?
Each child will be given a balloon, and each has to burst it.
4. Interrogative adjective or Interrogative pronoun?
"Which has been detained, and which class needs my permission for a picnic?" asked the Principal.
5. Comparative adjective (common use) or Comparative pronoun (rare usage)
These are good bags, better are hard to find.
6. Indefinite adjective or indefinite pronoun?
Some birds remained on the branch, and some flew away.
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how perfectly you teach ma'm! I don't know why your lessons do not get much views they deserve. But it is for sure that one they you will be admired as the most amazing English teacher on youtube. keep your hard work up. Thankyou
@fayaz - Glad you liked it :) Welcome
Perfect explanation! You're absolutely right when you say adjectives need to analyzed closely. I have come to observe that most English teachers aren't well aware of all these functions.
A great beginning of another day. Thank you, ma'am!
Thank you Ritu. English is their mother tongue so they perhaps do not need the kind of objective understanding that we do. It comes naturally to them? Your comments always bring cheer.
mam ,watching your all videos really helped me in my CDA IMA /ota examination thank you.
Glad to hear that. Happy to have helped.
Wow Usha Ma'am, how beautifully u teach ma'am. Finally for grammar, I have got a site as per my requirement. Thank u....
Most welcome 😊
Thank you very much for a very clear, beutiful and precise explanation. Thank you very much for making Engish learning very interesting.
Glad it was helpful! Many thanks.
Amazing ma'am i m really impressed.. MashAllah you have God gifted talent of teaching..
Thanks a lot
I just love the way you teach Grammar.
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Mam,
Your teaching is very interesting. I like your way of teaching. I started watching your videos from 1 week, Its so interesting!
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Superb explanation madam. May God bless you live long happy life.
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I love your work. Thank you.
Glad you enjoy it! You are most welcome.
Excellent , the way you explain. Thanks Madam
You are most welcome
Mam your videos are amazing... Like I had always an interest in English gr. And was finding something really helpful and your videos have really done it! Thank u soooo much for these videos!!! 🤗🙏🙏
My pleasure 😊 Keep watching.
Great explanation of adjective in less than 20 min
Glad it was helpful!
Now only I understood the importance of adjective madam. Thanks a lot madam. Wish you a happy pongal
Thanks SanthanaKrishnan. Happy Pongal to you too.
You are a great teacher, ma'am.
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I don't know how much more I can appreciate ur teachings
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Amazing way of teaching
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So Perfectly Exaplained❤
Thank you.
Thank you ma'am.
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Superfantabulous....
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well explained ma'am in a very short time. waiting for verbs (elaborately).
Thank you. Yes, the comprehensive lesson on Verbs is in the pipeline.
Mam can please do a video on reflexive and emphasising pronoun
Mam I am Sneha
Good morning ma'am ! Its great to have your lessons in the early morning ..plz do make videos for ctet xam cuz no video is available in english
Thanks. Yes CTET is the new area of study for exams. Will look into it.
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Most welcome
Excellent lecture.🙏
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superb teaching madam G
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Really u r so nice in explanation
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Thank you very much Teacher for your kind reply to mt earlier post thanking you. Kindly suggest me how to go about 'Spoken English's . I am going through a lot of videos but not very sure about them. Kindly suggest some book/s.Sincerr thanks.
Books alone will not help for spoken English. You have to speak. If you understand Hindi, listen to my video on how to improve spoken English. ruclips.net/video/6DUFs7ykKQw/видео.html
Wonderful explanation
Glad you liked it
Great ma'am.🙏
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Maam you are the author of empowering English 🤔😱😱😱 I had it in 6th std unbelievable.
Yes, I am. Hope you found EE useful.
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Most welcome 😊
Awesome video
Thanks.
Mam at what age should a child learn all the concepts including clauses, phrases, perfect participle etc so that he could easily understand a prominent newspaper and also for BBC English news channel,etc ?
middle school.
Hi Usha Pandit ma’am. I had a request please do one class on prepositions
Will do soon
I really enjoyed your class thanks a lot.
I would like to improve my spelling
Thank you! 😃 I have a spelling video that might help. Do check it out.
Thanks mam
You are welcome.
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So much Best explanation still so much less likes...Mam your videos are very good...
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Mam! Is always perfect teacher
And you explained us as its
Thanks a lot
But let me add one things and there’s
Please its hard to see the written lesson
I know. It's an old video. Should make a new version in the future.
Madam🙏 There are some doubt in the chapter Adjective... degrees of comparison.It would be very nice if you share a teaching class on the said chapter.Thanks
Yes adjectives of comparison in good, better than, best comparing 2 nouns. I will do it as a part of transformation soon.
Tnx a lot ma'am
(Paula keeps her hats in three large new triangular green boxes.) Mam in this sentence we use comma in all adjectives because all the adjectives are of different function
The rule for commas is to see if you can interchange the adjectives. e.g. if i change to: triangular three large new boxes will it be ok? So i know i cannot change the position of three in this sentence so no comma after three. But 3 (new large triangular green) or (green new large triangular) seem ok. They are interchangeable. Hence. you can put commas after them, except the last adjective before boxes.
good evening mam... I'm doing MBA but still, i was unaware of the function creation and use of the adjective
That is not surprising. Keep watching.
Please make a video on Correct Form of Verbs
You mean subject verb agreement? Or use of verb forms?
Subject and verb agreement and Prepositions.
Sure
Madam please do a video on adverb and it's kinds topic.
Already done. Please check playlist
Can u help me with a doubt? If the sentence is "much time is lost in heavy traffic" Can much and heavy both work as adj of quantity?
'much' qualifies 'time' and 'heavy' qualifies traffic. Both ask how much? therefore quantity.
That's what I thought but my child's teacher told her that heavy would be quality 😞
Mam, Please do a video on adverb topic
already done. visit playlist
I like it madam
Thank you
ma'am please upload Reported speech lesson also...
will do in a bit.
Mam shall you put a video on verbs
I have done a video called 'Verbs go Job Hunting.' Mazedaar hai. zaroor dekhiye.
Mam, please tell me some Best books of English grammar ......I will buy. Please *******
I have a book on basic grammar called 'Grammar with Ease' if you are a beginner. You will get it from our website.
But advanced grammar is best learnt on youtube. So keep watching. :)
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher mam, what to do to get " English with Ease" ???? Give the link of your website here. ******
HI madam,
How do I get your classes in an order.
So that I can learn one by one.
Regards.
If you want to start grammar from scratch, my book Grammar with Ease is a reference book that will give you everything you need. To practice you can go in for the Language with Ease series 1,2,3 for basic level and 4,5,6 for advanced. Answer keys are on kindle. Practice one sentence daily.
If you go to the playlists on this channel, you will get all the videos I have made. You can see them for more clarity.
Good luck. Hope this helps.
How to make syntax trees?
I personally hate syntax trees. There are lots of videos to learn from.
this is standing in the place of noun
This dog is cute. This = demonstrative adjective (which dog? this) . This is my dog. This = pronoun (this stands in place of dog)
You need to work quickly in order to finish on time.
In above sentence - what is quickly ? Adverb or Adjective ?
what does it describe? noun or verb?
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher if I replace 'need to' with a modal (say must) then work becomes main verb and quickly becomes adverb. Is that the correct way to think ?
Mam one week left in board exams
Please give your valuable advice regarding the strategy
I score between 72 and 75 in my school exams
The 5-8 marks lost are bit random .
I find the RTCs of poems confusing especially when questions regarding the relevance of some poetic device are asked.
I have extensive made notes of every chapter and decent grasp of general English but I have done 2-3 sample papers only.
Feel nervous for no specific reason
Please guide how to remove minor errors and must do's and don'ts during this final week, could you also mention certain must watch videos regarding poetry
If you are in grade 12 I have done all the poems. Take a look. Don't mug up notes, understand the theme, characters, problem in stories. Look at how I have interpreted poem. If you have not bought Writing with Ease, you must. It has a big section on poetry and devices. Available on Amazon and our website www.mindsprings.in Good luck.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher Thank you so much Mam
Namaste mam I have an iels exam in 2 weeks.I am decent but far from perfect in english.How do I ace writing questions.I have bought your book writing with ease,but it is impractical to finish it with a fortnight.
Sentence: The Chinese army is three times the size of the Indian army.
Hi Mam - is above sentence logically and grammatically correct? If so - is it an example of part-nominal ellipses i.e. "Size of" is ellipted from the noun phrase (Size of The Chinese army)
Well yes. That seems reasonable.
mam pls help me with adjective of quantity and indefinite number
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They are the same but usage can be different. Quantity is that which cannot be counted e.g. much water, great amount of pain, enough groceries etc.
Whereas indefinite number does not tell you exactly what number. e.g. a few girls, several men, many birds, lots of people etc. where if it were definite, we can substitute it with a number like thousand, two, sixteen etc.
demonstrative is to point out something
Yes.
Ma'am, how can 'possessive pronoun' be a subject in a sentence?..is it grammatically correct??
Why not? Hers were missing from the house. Here it is subject. However, like all pronoun subjects, we need a noun reference in a previous sentence as to who the 'hers' is referring to.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher @The Mindsprings English Teacher ma'am the word "Hers" is a possessive pronoun and it is singular but why it takes plural verb 'were'?..and ma'am "Hers were missing from the house"...hindi matlab kya h??
mam if there we an option through which we can subscribe and like the video no matter how many times... may be infinity ... then for sure i will do it to your video . it was really really helpful mam
Thank you :) :)
That is so sweet of you.
Mam I have a query.
He is extremely poor.
He runs extremely fast.
Is extremely in first sentence adjective ?
Is extremely in second sentence adveb ?
Pls reply ?
In both they are adverbs. Do see the Parts of speech video in Hindi which is the latest upload.
Mam please teach sentence pattern mam
Will do a video on it.
Ma'am,this is mine.#this is a pronoun,is stands for a verb and what mine will stands for?
mine = possessive pronoun standing for your name - Lara's.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher fakzgzjzg
Jhootha glass / jhootha khana meaning in English?
In English, the nearest translation of the word 'jhoota' with food is 'sullied'. It is never used in English speaking cultures. They would use the word 'spoilt' for food that going bad. Lekin 'jhoota' yeh shabd is not sada hua khana. Yeh shabd caste ya jaat paat se juda hai, jo unke culture me nahi hai. Sullied means ganda ya brasht karna... so I think that suits 'jhoota' nearest in translation.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher Thank you very much Ma'am
Madam can you explain in easy language please
Listen more often Pavani. English is best picked up with constant listening to English. Not through Hindi. Good luck. Do see my video 10 Tips to better English in Hindi.
1. the word 'this' is a demonstrative adjective qualifying the noun 'photograph', and the word 'this' is a demonstrative pronoun standing for the noun 'grandmother' (in the photograph).
2. the word 'mine' is possessive pronoun standing for the noun 'ice cream', and the word 'your' is a possessive adjective qualifying the noun 'ice cream'.
3. the word 'each' is a distributive adjective qualifying the noun 'child', and the word 'each' is a distributive pronoun standing for the noun 'child'.
4. the word 'which' is an interrogative pronoun qualifying the noun 'class', and the word 'which' is an interrogative adjective standing for the noun 'class'.
5. the word 'good' is a comparative adjective qualifying the noun 'bags', and the word 'better' is a comparative pronoun standing for the noun 'bags'.
6. the word 'some' is an indefinite adjective qualifying the noun 'birds', and the word 'some' is an indefinite pronoun standing for the noun 'birds'.
Excellent all correct. Except No 4 has a typo. You have written pronoun for adjective and vice versa. please check.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher Got it.
4. the word 'which' is an interrogative pronoun standing for the noun 'class', and the word 'which' is an interrogative adjective qualifying the noun 'class'.
Please read word mt as my
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How can I help you Snehal? Keep watching.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher mam please do the video of articles
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher an mam I am not Snehal I am sneha
Mam please
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Doubtless, it is amazing. I am sorry to say but there seems to be a grammatical mistake in the first four sentences uttered by you.
Indeed, in 4 sentences? Wow! I better appoint you to take my place and teach. Why don't you specify? So go on. I'm waiting to hear from you.
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Right here as you are doing now.