形容词在句子中的作用
1. 形容词在句子中主要用作： 1)定语：
Shanghai is a big industrial city. 上海是一座大工业城市。 We lived in a beautiful village. 我们住在一座美丽的村子里。 2)表语：
We could see that she was very handsome. 我们可以看出她非常英俊。 Don’t feel bad. Everything will be all right. 不要难过，一切都会好的。 3)宾语补语(构成复合宾语)：
We found him asleep on the sofa. 我们发现他在双人沙发上睡着了。 Who left the door open? 谁让大门敞开着？ 4)状语：
They came over, eager to help. 他们跑了过来，亟于帮忙。
Afraid of the hardships, they stopped half-way. 由于害怕困难，他们中途停了下来。 2. 间或用作同位语(a)或独立成分(b)：
a. He read all kinds of books, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. 他看了各式各样的书，古今中外都有。
b. Strange to say, he did pass the exam after all. 说也奇怪，他考试竟然及格了。
3. 大多数形容词，既可作定语，也可作表语，但有少数形容词通常只作表语，如：afraid, aloud, alike, alert, alive, aware, ashamed, unable。
有个别形容词通常作表语，间或作定语(常有特别意思)，如： She is fond of children. 她喜欢孩子。
I have very fond memories of my time in Spain. 对我在西班牙的岁月，我有亲切的回忆。 Exercises:
I. 在下面句子中的形容词下划线，说明它们的作用：
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1. She had a beautiful voice. ( ) 2. The baby is five months old. ( )
3. I felt glad that my sister was well again. ( )( ) 4. Your nephew is a nice little boy. ( )( ) 5. We found it hard to make a living. ( )
6. The entire city turned out for the celebration. ( ) 7. She looked white and frightened. ( )( ) 8. This made me very sad. ( )
9. Sure enough, they came to see us. ( ) 10. Much interested, he agreed to give it a try. ( ) 11. He said nothing, but sat silent smoking. ( ) 12. Of the 20 people present, I know only one. ( )
II. 在下面短文中的形容词下划线，并说明它们的作用：
On a cold, frosty day, the ants began drying the grain they had stored during the summer. A grasshopper, half-dead with hunger came by and asked the diligent ants for a morsel to save his life.
“What did you do this past summer?” responded the ants.
“Oh,” said the hungry grasshopper. “I kept myself busy by singing all day long and all night, too.”
“We’ll then,” remarked the ants as they laughed and shut the store house, “Since you kept yourself busy by singing all summer, you can do the same by dancing all winter.” — adapted from Aesop’s Fables
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形容词的比较级和最高级(1)
1. 在英语中，在表示“比较…”和“最…”时，形容词要用特别的形式，称为“比较级”和“最高级”，原来的形容词称为“原级”：
原级 比较级 最高级 strong强 stronger较强 strongest最强 2. 形容词的比较级和最高级的构成方法如下：
a. 单音节词和少数双音节词以加-er和-est的方式构成： 原级 比较级 最高级 young年轻 younger较年轻 youngest最年轻 old老 older较老 oldest最老 clean干净 cleaner较干净 cleanest最干净 在加词尾时要注意下面的各种情况：
情况 加词尾法 例词 一般情况 直接加词尾 small, smaller, smallest 以e结尾的词 加-r，-st large, larger, largest 以辅音＋y结尾的词 变y为i，再加词尾 busy, busier, busiest 以“辅音字母”结尾的词 将这字母双写再加词尾 big, bigger, biggest b. 其他词都在前面加more, most构成比较级及最高级： 原级 比较级 最高级
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important more important most important difficult more difficult most difficult interesting more interesting most interesting useful more useful most useful
3. 用比较级时常用than引起一个从句，表示和什么比较： His room is bigger than mine. 他的房间比我的房间大。 She is younger than my sister. 她比我妹妹年轻。 Exercises:
I. 学会下列形容词的比较级和最高级： 原级 比较级 最高级 1. tall taller tallest strong stronger strongest old older oldest 2. large larger largest fine finer finest late later latest 3. big bigger biggest hot hotter hottest thin thinner thinnest 4. easy easier easiest busy busier busiest happy happier happiest 5. valuable more valuable most valuable dangerous more dangerous most dangerous
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comfortable more comfortable most comfortable II. 给出下面形容词的比较级和最高级： 1. bright 2. fat 3. lazy 4. safe 5. heavy 6. wide 7. high 8. close 9. long 10. dirty 11. sad 12. brave 13. silly 14. beautiful 15. early 16. prosperous 17. interesting 18. delicious 19. difficult
形容词的比较级和最高级(2)
1. 有几个形容词有特殊的比较级和最高级形式：
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