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Intro to adjectives

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Intro to adjectives발음듣기

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[Voiceover] So, grammarians, we have this class of words called adjectives, and what they do is they change stuff. Adjectives... change stuff. Adjectives change stuff.발음듣기

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They're part of this larger category of words that we call modifiers.발음듣기

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Because that's what they do, they modify, they change things.발음듣기

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So let's say I were to draw you a bear, a kinda human-looking, standing on two legs kinda bear, sure.발음듣기

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I could refer to this bear and I could say, the bear.발음듣기

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But I could also refer to this bear with a description, like, the friendly bear.발음듣기

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But if that bear were blue, for instance, I could describe the bear as the blue bear.발음듣기

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And in the blue bear the word blue modifies bear.발음듣기

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Blue is an adjective that describes bear.발음듣기

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So adjectives change stuff and they describe stuff.발음듣기

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And if that bear were a different color it would be, you know, the red bear.발음듣기

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And now that bear is red.발음듣기

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Actually more of a salmon color, frankly.발음듣기

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Let's put this into action with some sentences.발음듣기

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Steven is Connie's best friend.발음듣기

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Now what is the word that describes or changes another word in this sentence?발음듣기

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If you guessed best, you were correct.발음듣기

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Best modifies friend.발음듣기

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So Steven is Connie's best friend.발음듣기

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What is Steven? A friend.발음듣기

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What kind of friend is he?발음듣기

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The best friend.발음듣기

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The enormous pie is not for sale.발음듣기

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Now what's the adjective in that sentence?발음듣기

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If you guessed enormous you would be correct.발음듣기

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Enormous, which means very big, is modifying or changing the word pie.발음듣기

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And I thought a little bit of word origins might be kind of useful here if we go back to the Latin.발음듣기

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Now you don't, obviously you don't need to speak Latin in order to make sense of English, but I thought it would be cool to look at what adjective literally means.발음듣기

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The word part, ad-, comes from the Latin meaning to or toward or on.발음듣기

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And the -jective part comes from a Latin word, jacere.발음듣기

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It means to throw.발음듣기

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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.발음듣기