Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Adjectives
A clear, concise explanation of adjectives, including some tricky usages, how to order adjectives in a sentence, and some idiomatic uses of prepositions with -ed participles. The emphasis is on HOW adjectives are used more than on WHY...
University College London
University College London: Participial Adjectives
This page offers good information on participial adjectives. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
University College London
University College London: Adjectives
This University College London site features an extended grammar lesson on adjectives and their use. Includes an exercise to test your knowledge.
University College London
University College London: Attributive and Predicative Adjectives
This University College London site provides an advanced grammar lesson on adjectives (attributive, postpositive, and predicate adjectives), and includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
University College London
University College London: Inherent Adjectives
Grammar survey of inherent and non-inherent adjectives and stative and dynamic adjectives with examples.
University College London
University College London: Nominal Adjectives
This tutorial site provides a detailed lesson on the purpose and use of nominal adjectives. Includes examples.
University College London
University College London: The Ordering of Adjectives
This page from a University College London site discusses the proper way to put adjectives in order.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Esl Quiz: Comparative and Superlative Forms
A short interactive online quiz on the difference between comparative and superlative forms. Complete with answers to each question.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Order of Adjectives Worksheets
Find more than a dozen printable worksheets to use for practicing the order in which adjectives should be placed when you have more than one adjective describing a noun.
Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning: Adjectives and Adverbs Comparative and Superlative Forms
This is an English style guide article focusing on comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. It explains how to form these adjectives and adverbs, how to use them, and provides examples.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Adjectives: Regular Comparatives and Superlatives
A helpful site concerning the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. Includes definitions and practice exercises.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Quiz: Regular Comparatives and Superlatives
An excellent interactive quiz on the adjectival forms of comparative and superlative. Provides correct answers and scores.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Order
Information and examples of how to make order adjectives within a sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Common Errors in English: Bad or Badly
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between "bad" and "badly" in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Common Errors in English: Good or Well
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between "good" and "well" in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjectives and Adverbs
This video lesson focuses on adjectives and adverbs; it explains the difference between them. It also discusses when to use adverbs and adjectives and provides examples of each.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjectives 2
This lesson focuses on adjectives and the rules for changing them to comparative and superlative forms. It offers textual information about adjectives and practice adding them to sentences. It also provides two YouTube videos: the first...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Parts of Speech: Distinguishing Adjectives and Adverbs
This site helps you distinguish between adjectives and adverbs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Vivid Adjectives
This upper elementary lesson focuses on the use of vivid adjectives to enhance student writing. Students will explore vivid adjectives in a variety of activities including thesaurus use and story development software.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Adjective Order
Put adjectives in the right order, using your new favorite memory aid, DOSA-SCOMP.
University College London
University College London: Adjectives and Nouns
Tutorial site that surveys the proper usage of adjectives and nouns that act like adjectives. Includes examples and an exercise.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Adjectives and Rules
Good information about recognizing adjectives and understanding what they do. Intensive look into adjectives, including phrases that act as adjectives.
Other
Squarehead Teachers: Adjective Order Worksheet [Pdf]
Use this worksheet to identify the correct order of adjectives in a series.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjectives: Lesson 3
This lesson introduces adjectives and provides examples. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Adjectives."