part of the compound nominal predicate) : The flat is
comfortable ; She
looks
young ; She feels
bad ; She lay
motionless as if she were asleep;
He stood
silent with his back turned to the window;
3. Adjectives can be modified by the intensifier “very”: This
teacher is
very considerate ;
4. Adjectives can have the grammatical category of the degrees of
comparison which is expressed synthetically and analytically depended
on their morphological structure: red-redd
er -
the redd
est , beautiful-
more beautiful -
the most beautiful ;
5. Substantivized adjectives can be used in the functions of the
subject and the object: Have you read the book by Greg Palast “How
the rich are destroying the earth”? -in the function of the subject; The
judge convicted
the rich of a crime in destroying the nature. -in the
function of the object;
6. Adjectives can be used in the function of the adverbial modifier
in elliptical adverbial clauses: When
ripe , the apples are sweet ;
Whether
right or
wrong , the man ought to be treated fairly;
7. Adjectives are often used to build up exclamatory sentences in
which an adjective preceded by interrogative word
how is placed at the
head of the sentence:
How beautiful your daughter is!
How nice is the
weather today!
8. Adjectives can modify indefinite pronouns : She wants to tell
you
something interesting ;
Anyone intelligent understands it.
There are the following peculiarities in Uzbek adjectives :
1.They can freely occur in attribuive position to the noun : qizil gul,
aqlli bola ;
2.They can be used in the function of the nominal predicate :
Oppoq qordir tog’larning boshi,
Daryo
