In this lesson, we'll be speaking about the adjective in English. We'll look at what types of adjectives there are in the language, how they are formed, and what syntactic functions adjectives can perform.
00:00 Introduction
00:18 What is the adjective?
03:07 Types of adjectives according to their morphological composition
04:27 Derivative Adjectives
18:03 Compound Adjectives
23:39 Hyphenated Prefixes and Suffixes in Adjectives
25:19 Types of Adjectives according to their meaning and grammatical characteristics
26:25 Qualitative adjectives and their grammatical characteristics
29:05 Relative Adjectives and their grammatical characteristics
31:34 Gradable and Non-Gradable Adjectives
33:28 Syntactic Functions of Adjectives
33:54 Adjectives as attributes
37:33 Adjectives as post-modifiers
39:30 Adjectives as a predicative
40:37 Adjectives as parts of compound verbal predicates
41:21 Adjectives as an objective predicate
44:23 Adjectives as a subjective predicate
46:39 Adjectives as object complements to clauses
49:20 Adjectives as adverbial modifiers
50:34 Loose Attributes in reduced attributive clauses
52:06 Adjectives used independently
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