Adjectives are words that describe nouns.

• e.g. My mother made green tea in a beautiful celadon bowl. (The bold italicized words are adjectives.)

1. Adjectives can add color, quality, size, emotions, and numbers (e.g. green, ugly, large, happy, two) to nouns.
   • There are two large, green frogs in the pond.
2. Adjectives can describe feelings. (e.g. interested/interesting)
3. The person or thing that feels the emotion is described with an adjective that ends with –ed.
   • He is interested in the movie.
   • The bored student fell asleep.
4. The person or thing that causes the emotion is described with an adjective ending in –ing.
   • The movie is interesting.
   • The boring class caused the student to fall asleep.
5. Adjectives can show possession: my/your/his/her/its/our/their
   • I gave it to my mother.
   • Our family lives in Seoul.
6. Some adjectives are demonstrative: this/that/these/those
   • That book is mine.
   • I want to buy these cookies.
7. Some adjectives are also called articles: a/an/the
   • I bought a book.
   • The dog in front of the store is sleeping.
8. We often use 2 or 3 adjectives to describe a noun. It is not a good idea to use more than 3 or 4 adjectives at one time.

Some common adjective endings:

There is a general order for adjectives. The table below shows the usual order.