Adjectives
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- Created on: 29-08-18 17:17
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- Adjectives
- Agreement
- French adjectives must agree in number and gender with the nouns they modify
- un chien noir
- les robes noires
- When used with pronouns, adjectives agree with the noun that has been replaced
- French adjectives must agree in number and gender with the nouns they modify
- Adjective Placement
- Most adjectives appear after the noun they modify
- Some adjectives precede the noun they modify
- Use the mnemonic "BANGS" to remember these types of nouns:
- B is for Beauty
- A is for Age
- N is for Number
- G is for Good or Bad
- S is for Size
- All determiner adjectives appear before the noun, e.g. "mon livre"
- The four exceptions to bangs are: laid, affreux, âge, and méchant
- Literal and Figurative Adjectives
- Some adjectives can come both before and after the noun depending on their meaning
- Figurative meanings usually precede the noun, while literal meanings usually follow
- When referring to people with "grand", place it before the noun to mean "great" and after to mean "tall"
- Some other common adjectives that change meanings are: certain, pauvre, propre, seul, and cher
- Multiple Adjectives
- When multiple adjectives modify a noun, they should come before or after the noun depending on where they would stand if they were a singular adjective
- This means that in some sentences, you'll get adjectives on either side of the noun
- Concrete adjectives should be placed closer to the noun than abstract ones
- You can add conjunctions and adverbs to break up multiple adjectives
- One adjective describing multiple nouns should take on the masculine plural form by default
- If all the nouns are feminine, however, then they can take the feminine plural form
- When multiple adjectives modify a noun, they should come before or after the noun depending on where they would stand if they were a singular adjective
- Grand or Gros?
- Grand tends to be used for: general size, height, area, figurative size, and importance
- Gros tends to be used for: thickness or volume, fatness, things that are round, and seriousness
- Adjectives that Precede Nouns
- Ordinal adjectives (adjectives that describe the order of things) precede nouns
- Autre, même, tel, and faux all go before nouns
- "Tout" precedes not just the noun but also the article + noun
- Agreement
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