Intro to adjectives | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

so grammarians we have this class of
words called adjectives and what they do
is they change stuff adjectives change
stuff adjectives change stuff Boop
they're part of this larger category of
words that we call modifiers because
that's that's what they do they they
modify they change things so let's say I
were to draw you a bear of kind of human
looking standing on two legs kind of
bare sure I could refer to this bear and
I could say the bear but I can also
refer to this bear with a description
like the friendly bear but if that bear
were blue for instance I could describe
the bear as the blue bear and in the
blue bear the word blue modifies bear
blue is an adjective that describes bear
so adjectives change stuff and they
describe stuff and if that bear were a
different color it would be you know the
red bear and now that bear is red
actually more of a salmon color frankly
let's put this into action with some
sentences Stephen is Connie's best
friend now what is the word that
describes or changes another word in
this sentence if you guess best you are
correct
best modifies friend so Stephen is
Connie's best friend what is Stephen
friend what kind of friend is he the
best friend
the enormous pie is not for sale
now what's the what's the adjective in
that sentence
she guessed enormous you would be
correct
enormous which means very big is
modifying or changing
word pi I thought a little bit of word
origins might be kind of useful here if
we go back to the Latin now you don't
obviously don't need to speak Latin in
order to make sense of English but I
thought it would be cool to look at what
adjectives literally means so the word
part ad comes from the Latin meaning to
or toward or on and the ejected part
comes from a Latin word
yakatori it means to throw so an
adjective is something that's kind of
thrown on or thrown on top of something
because you don't necessarily need
adjectives in order for a sentence to
make sense the way that you need to have
a verb or the way that you need to have
a noun
adjectives are a little bit extra
they're thrown on top you know the these
sentences would work on their own
without the adjectives in them Stephen
is Connie's friend the pie is not for
sale you know they would work but what's
nice about adjectives and modifiers of
all kinds is that they add something
extra they add more detail they change
and describe stuff that's what
adjectives do you can learn anything
Dave it out