A study of adjective and adjectival phrase in English with reference to English Language learners
Author
Source
al-Mustansiriya Journal of Arts
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 57 (30 Jun. 2012), pp.1-27, 27 p.
Publisher
Al-Mustansiriyah University College Of Arts
Publication Date
2012-06-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
27
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Abstract EN
Adjectives, in fact, are words such as tall, round, happy, etc that describe nouns (persons or a things ) in sentences.
The term adjective is a problematic faces Iraqi SELL students since its form is complicated in most of cases , some adjectives have one word which are called simple adjectives others are of more than one word which are called compound adjectives.
However, linguists today distinguish determiners from adjectives, considering them to be two parts of speech, but traditionally; determiners were considered adjectives in some of their uses.
Adjectives act as a head of adjective phrase , the syntactic role of adjective in adjectival phrase is attributive and predicative .
Generally speaking, adjectives have different forms in English, they can be nouns present and past participle etc.
In addition, most of adjectives have comparative and superlative forms.
Finally, this study has found that Iraqi ELL tend to use limited number of adjectives like big, beautiful, nice ect.
Simple adjectives are very common more than compound ones.
In addition to, adjectives are invariable in English and do not agree with nouns in number and gender with exception of the adjective beautiful.
This study has also ended with some recommendations.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abd al-Munim, Sawsan. 2012. A study of adjective and adjectival phrase in English with reference to English Language learners. al-Mustansiriya Journal of Arts،Vol. 2012, no. 57, pp.1-27.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-967532
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abd al-Munim, Sawsan. A study of adjective and adjectival phrase in English with reference to English Language learners. al-Mustansiriya Journal of Arts No. 57 (2012), pp.1-27.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-967532
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abd al-Munim, Sawsan. A study of adjective and adjectival phrase in English with reference to English Language learners. al-Mustansiriya Journal of Arts. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 57, pp.1-27.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-967532
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 26-27
Record ID
BIM-967532