{"id":3184,"date":"2018-02-11T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commonenglisherrors.com\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2019-09-13T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T10:44:23","slug":"common-adjective-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commonenglisherrors.com\/common-adjective-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Making These Common Adjective Mistakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you can get away with these common adjective mistakes in a colloquial setting, they can cost you a lot in a professional environment, especially in job interviews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Adjective Mistake #1<\/strong>: I\u2019m not interesting in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction<\/strong>: I\u2019m not interested in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation<\/strong>: Many adjectives are formed by adding prefixes such as \u201c-ing\u201d or \u201c-ed\u201d to a verb. When an adjective ends with \u201c-ing\u201d, it describes the effect of a thing or person. Likewise, when an adjective ends with \u201c-ed\u201d, it describes how a person feels.<\/p>\n<p>In the example above, the movie is a thing which doesn\u2019t interest you. Therefore, the movie is not interesting to you. In other words, you\u2019re not interested in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Adjective Mistake #2<\/strong>: The room smells awfully.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction<\/strong>: The room smells awful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation<\/strong>: Awful isn\u2019t modifying the verb (smell) here, but the noun (the room).<\/p>\n<p>However, you can write, \u201cthe room smells awfully funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here, \u201cawfully funny\u201d is an adjective phrase which goes after the linking verb smell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Adjective Mistakes #3<\/strong>: He\u2019s more stronger than his opponent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction<\/strong>: He\u2019s stronger than his opponent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation<\/strong>: This is a classic case of using Double Comparatives. When you use the comparative form of an adjective (stronger), there\u2019s no need to use another adjective (more).<\/p>\n<p>Can you fix the following adjective errors?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel is more taller than Harry.<\/li>\n<li>Sally is more funnier than Linda is.<\/li>\n<li>The pizza today tastes more better than it did yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>She looks more prettier than her sister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Common Adjective Mistakes #4:<\/strong> You\u2019re the most perfect person I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction<\/strong>: You\u2019re the perfect person I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation<\/strong>: Some adjectives are complete and absolute by themselves. We call them absolute or non-gradable adjectives. You can add any words to intensify or grade them further.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some examples of absolute adjectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supreme, Wonderful, Horrible, Brilliant, Final, Obvious, Unique, Absolute, Complete, Ideal, Preferable, Dead etc.<\/p>\n<p>Just as we can\u2019t say a person is more dead, we can\u2019t say someone is more ideal or most unique, least preferable etc. It defies logic, to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3186\" src=\"http:\/\/commonenglisherrors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/common-adjective-errors.jpg\" alt=\"Just as we can\u2019t say a person is more dead, we can\u2019t say someone is more ideal or most unique, least preferable etc.\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commonenglisherrors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/common-adjective-errors.jpg 900w, https:\/\/commonenglisherrors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/common-adjective-errors-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commonenglisherrors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/common-adjective-errors-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/commonenglisherrors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/common-adjective-errors-20x20.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even as you get away with saying \u201cmore complete\u201d in colloquial speech, try to avoid it in writing.<\/p>\n<p>Can you spot the wrong adjectives and correct them in the following sentences?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He\u2019s one of the best players in our team.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s the most impossible challenge yet.<\/li>\n<li>Your voice is very unique.<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s the most complete man I\u2019ve come across.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Common Adjective Mistakes #5:<\/strong> Which is the shortest of these two routes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction<\/strong>: Which is the shorter of these two routes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation<\/strong>: While comparing two things, you can only use the comparative degree of an adjective, not the superlative degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Adjective Mistakes #6<\/strong>: I want a simplistic life away from the busy city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction<\/strong>: I want a simple life away from the busy city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/commonenglisherrors.com\/simple-vs-simplistic\/\">Simplistic<\/a> means treating a complex problem as it were very simple. For example, it\u2019s too simplistic to think that climate change can be averted by growing trees.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here are some of the answers to the questions I asked earlier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel is taller than Harry.<\/li>\n<li>Sally is funnier than Linda is.<\/li>\n<li>The pizza today tastes better than it did yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>She looks prettier than her sister.<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s one of the better players in our team.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s an impossible challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Your voice is unique.<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s the complete man I\u2019ve come across.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: common adjective mistakes, adjective based error exercise, mistakes in the use of adjectives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you can get away with these common adjective mistakes in a colloquial setting, they can cost you a lot in professional environment, especially in job interviews. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Are You Making These Common Adjective Mistakes? 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