Chart of Content: Adjectives

Vocabulary

Sample Syntax

Color

beige, black, blue, brown, gold, green, gray, orange, pink, purple, red, silver, white, yellow

What color is the rug?
It's green. The rug is green.
It's a green rug.

Comparison

absent / present

hard / soft

alive / dead

heavy / light

alone / together

glad / happy / sad

asleep / awake

handsome / ugly

bad / good

beautiful / pretty

big / little

large / small / tiny

bright / dark /light

long / short

broad / narrow / wide

new / old

clean / dirty

noisy / quiet

closed / open / shut

old / young

cold / hot

poor / rich

cooked / raw

possible / impossible

cool / warm

right / wrong

cruel / kind

rough / smooth

deep / shallow

short / tall

difficult / easy / hard

sour / sweet

dry / wet

strong / weak

dull / sharp

tame / wild

empty / full

terrible / wonderful

false / true

thick / thin

fat / thin

The girl is alone.
She is alone.
(Not She is an alone girl.)

The street is narrow.
It is narrow.
It's a narrow street.

Teach words that cannot be used before a noun (such as alone) separately.

Comparative
Superlative

big / bigger than / the biggest

beautiful, more beautiful than, the most beautiful
less beautiful than, the least beautiful

Other

Nationality: American, German, Spanish, French, English, Arabic, etc.

afraid, angry, mad, awful, blind, brave, broken, busy, calm, clear, comfortable, complete, deaf, delicious, famous, flat, free, fresh, hungry, important, impossible, lazy, lonely, loose, lucky, natural, neat, necessary, nice, perfect, plain, pleasant, popular, possible, proud, pure, real, ripe, rotten, safe, simple, special, stiff, strange, thirsty

Order: two big red English books

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