Adjectives: Forms and Usage

English Grammar | Adjectives: forms & usage | Forms:
Adjectives are generally invariable in English and do not agree with nouns in number and gender.

• a blue car
• the great outdoors
• a group of young women

However, a few adjectives have a connotation which is slightly masculine or feminine.
Thus, one says that a woman is beautiful while a man would be called handsome.
Adjectives indicating religion or nationality (or a region, state or province) generally begin with a capital
letter, whether they refer to people or objects:

• She is an American student.
• They go to a Catholic school.
• They enjoy Breton music.

Usage:
The adjective will be placed, with very few exceptions, in front of the noun it modifies. When two
adjectives precede a noun, they can be connected by a comma (,) or by the conjunction"and." In a series
of three or more adjectives, one usually uses "and" before the last adjective in the list.
Examples:

• I like short novels.
• That fellow will be a competent worker.
• She writes long and flowery letters.
• He works long, hard hours.
• She had a mean, old and overbearing step−mother.

An adjective may follow the noun when it is in a predicate (after the verb) or in a relative clause. (In
relative clauses the relative pronoun may be implicit.)
Examples:

• He was a man (who was) always happy to help others.
• She is a woman (who is) true to herself.

http://learngrammar.blogspot.com/