Qualities
What is someone or something like?
Betekenis
A quality tells us what someone or something is like. It can describe size, color, shape, age, or character. Languages use adjectives, verbs, or phrases for this, and some have no separate class of adjectives. State words highlights a current or resulting condition, while Qualities focuses on a feature of the person or thing.
Zo herken je het
Look for a word or phrase that describes what a person or thing is like, rather than how an action happens.
In de taal die je leert
English usually places a describing adjective before the noun. An adjective can also follow be or another verb such as seem to say what the subject is like. Adjectives do not change form for gender or number, either before a noun or after a verb.
They live in a small house.
The adjective comes before the noun.
Our neighbors are friendly.
Friendly stays unchanged even though neighbors is plural.
This bag is heavy.
The adjective follows is to describe the bag.
Learners whose language usually places adjectives after nouns may copy that order into English. Learners whose language gives adjectives plural forms may add -s to an English adjective.