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Adjectives

Adjectives: Describing Words

Read the following sentences:

  1. The elephant is a large animal.
  2. The giraffe is a tall animal.
  3. Thomas lives in a big house.
  4. Jimmy is an active dog.
  5. The baby has curly hair.
  6. Vani has two pencils.
  7. Reena is wearing a pink dress.
  8. I like red tomatoes.
  9. It is a wet day.
  10. Rocky is wearing a dirty dress.

 

The above sentences have a number of nouns/pronouns. The sentences also have some describing words.

 These describing words tell us something more about these nouns/pronouns.

The words large, tall, big, active, curly, two, pink, red, wet, dirty are describing words. They tell us something about the size, colour, number and quality of a noun or pronoun.

Words which describe something are called adjectives. All describing words are Adjectives.

Describing words describe persons, animals or birds, places or things etc.

 

Notice that adjectives usually come before a noun; as,

  1. A pink flower
  2. Black shoe
  3. Sour grapes
  4. Ripe mangoes
  5. Old man
  6. Smart boy

 

But sometimes adjectives are placed after a noun; as,

  1. The clouds are white.
  2. The sky is blue.
  3. The knife is sharp.
  4. The tea is hot.
  5. An ice-cream is cold.  
  6.  The food is tasty.

Negative Sentences

 

  • Compare the following sentences:

 

  1. I am happy.                                                         1. I am not happy.
  2. He is lazy.                                                             2. He is not lazy.
  3. She is honest.                                                      3. She is not honest.
  4. The mangoes are ripe.                                       4. The mangoes are not ripe.
  5. The food was enough.                                        5. The food was not enough.
  6. There is some water in the jug.                         6. There is no water in the jug.
  7. They have some money.                                     7. They have no money.
  8. He had a fast car.                                                  8. He had no fast car.
  9. She is watering the plants.                                  9. She is not watering the plants.
  10. They have reached Paris.                                    10. They have not reached Paris.

 

  • The sentences on the left-hand side are positive statements. The sentences on the right –hand side have not or no in them. They are negative sentences.  A sentence having not or no in them is called a Negative Sentence.
  • Note: When the Verb is made up of two or more words (Sentence – 9 and 10), we put not/no after the first word to make the sentence, Negative.

 

  • Now compare the following sentences:

 

  1. Close the doors and windows.                        1.  Do not/Don’t close the doors and windows.
  2. Go out of the room.                                          2.  Do not/Don’t go out of the room.
  3. Stand up.                                                             3.  Do not/Don’t stand up.
  4. Read this aloud.                                                  4.  Do not/Don’t read this aloud.
  5. Keep quiet.                                                           5.  Do not/Don’t keep quiet.

 

  • To make a command sentence, negative, we put do not/don’t at the beginning of the sentence. Don’t is the short form of ‘do not’.

 

 

 

Chetan Bhagat’s the 3 mistakes of my life

Chetan Bhagat’s the 3 mistakes of my life

Like his other novels, Bhagat’s 3 Mistakes is also based on real events. Bhagat caters to the Indian taste by packing in a lot of masala – cricket, business, politics, religion, love and calamities like the earthquake and the Godhara riots. But as in his other novels, intensity is missing in this one too. After reading the novel we keep it back on the shelf – the characters or situations do not stay with us for long.

The novel is about three young friends in Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Govind, Ish and Omi. Govind is the entrepreneur in the group and motivates the others to set up a cricket shop. The shop gradually gains popularity and Govind dreams of expanding business. He wants to move to a new city location. They save, borrow and invest money in a new shopping mall under construction. But their dreams come crashing down with the earthquake. They are shaken up especially Govind but somehow carry on with their lives. Govind teaches maths to Ish’s sister Vidya, Ish finds solace in coaching a muslim boy, Ali, who has exceptional abilities in batting and Omi dabbles with religion and politics in the shadow of his maternal uncle Bittoo mama. Life goes on till Gujarat is hit by the Godhara riots. Omi dies while trying to save Ali, the trust between Ish and Govind is broken when Ish finds about Govind’s affair with his sister Vidya.

From here on life becomes a burden for Govind. And when he is no longer able to bear his friend’s silence and rejection, he pops sleeping pills. It is here that Chetan Bhagat , the writer appears on the scene to set things right. Read the novel to find more.