General English
Adjectives: Degrees, Order and Usage
Learn descriptive, quantitative, demonstrative and comparative adjective patterns.
Study progress
1. Types
Quality: good. Quantity: some. Number: three. Demonstrative: this. Possessive: my. Interrogative: which. Distributive: each/every.
2. Degrees
Positive: tall; comparative: taller; superlative: tallest. Avoid double comparison such as “more better”.
3. Comparison Rules
Use than with comparative forms. Use the with a superlative in ordinary usage: the best student.
4. Order of Adjectives
A useful order is opinion → size → age → shape → colour → origin → material → purpose → noun.
5. Common Traps
Senior/junior/superior/inferior are normally followed by to, not than.
Memory Tricks & Quick Recall
Adjective order: OSASCOMP = Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose. Comparatives → THAN; senior/superior → TO.