Grammar: Word classes: Adjectives
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Describing qualities and attributes | |
Abstract qualities
When we describe something that cannot be sensed through touch, taste, sight, hearing or smell, we use abstract adjectives.
These are often used to describe a quality that someone possesses:
| brave | clever | confident |
| crazy | curious | fair |
| free | gentle | helpful |
| honest | popular | powerful |
| responsible | sensible | serious |
| silly | smart | strong |
| stupid | sweet | wise |
Many abstract qualities are concerned with feelings and emotions describing how people react to something:
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Sometimes abstract adjectives describe non-human phenomena such as problems and situations:
| complex | different | difficult |
| easy | familiar | normal |
| ordinary | safe | serious |
| simple | strange | unusual |
Many of these abstract adjectives are used to express an attitude. For more information, click on the menu on the left: Expressing personal attitude.
For PrimeTeach teaching activities which provide KS2 students with practice in using adjectives to express feelings, see:
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