Adjectives: form and position 📕

An adjective describes a noun: big, red, happy, expensive.

Adjectives never change

In English, the adjective has the same form with all nouns. It does not change for singular, plural, or masculine and feminine words.

✗ two bigs houses

✓ two big houses

Two positions

Before the noun:

a new car

cold water

After the verbs be, look, feel, seem, become, get, taste, smell, sound:

The car is new.

You look tired.

This soup tastes good.

Adjectives cannot stand alone as a noun

Use one or ones instead of repeating the noun:

I don't like the red shirt. I like the blue one.

These shoes are old. I need new ones.

✗ I like the blue.

✓ I like the blue one.