1 republic of uzbekistan ministry of higher and secondary specialised education

yaxshi, qizil, yomon, katta
express the peculiarity of some objects,
but the substantivized adjectives
yaxshiga, kattadan, yomonga, 
qizilini
express the peculiarity, the owner of which is the person or 
the object. Adjectives usually express some sign peculiar to objects: 
katta bino, yaxshi kitob, yaxshi intizom, yaxshi bola. That’s why the 
semantic field of these adjecives is wide, but the semantic field of 
substantivized adjectives is concrete, they express the concrete object
having the peculiarity expressed by the substantivized adjective . These 
substantivized adjectives can perform the functions of the subject, 
object and possession: 
G’oliblar
majlis to’ridan joy olishdi. (A,Q.)- 
subject;
Yomonni
tanqid qiladi , 
yaxshiga
taqlid. ( maqol)-object ; 
Yaxshining
( yaxshi kishining) sadaqasi bo’lay.- possession.
Adjectives in the comparative degree are sometimes substantivized : 

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Askarlar esa ularning orasidan 
chaqqonroqlarini
ko’z ostiga olib 
qo’yganday bo’lar edi ( Sh.R.) ; Undan ko’ra 
munosibrog’ini
topolmaysiz. Examples show that substantivized adjectives both in the 
English and Uzbek languages acquire the nouns’ grammatical and 
lexical peculiarities. The substantivization of the adjective in the 
comparative degree in the Uzbek language is not observed in English. 
 
Self-control questions: 
1.
What are secondary grammatical categories? 
2.
What do you understand by the term "sems"? 
3.
What do you understand by "marked/non-marked morphemes"? 
4. What is the zero morpherme? 
4.
How do we form the comparative degree of the English and 
Uzbek adjectives? 
5.
Do all adjectives form the comparative degree in the English and 
Uzbek languages? 
6.
What kind of English adjectives don’t have the category of the 
degrees of comparison ? 
7.
Why do some English adjectives form the comparative and 
superlative degrees analytically? 
8.
Do the Uzbek adjectives form the comparative and superlative 
degrees analytically? 
9.
Why do some English adjectives form the comparative and 
superlative degrees by suppletion? 
10.
What is suppletion? 
11.
Give the structural classification of the English and Uzbek 
adjectives. 
12.
Give the semantic classification of the English and Uzbek 
adjectives. 
13.
Speak about substantivized adjectives in the English and Uzbek 
languages. 
14.
What is the difference between English and Uzbek qualitative and 
quantitative adjectives? 
15.
What 
is 
the 
difference 
between 
the 
relative 
and 
qualitative/quantitative adjectives in the English and Uzbek languages? 
16.
What can you say about syntactical peculiarities of the English 
and Uzbek adjectives? 

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17.
Can the substantivized adjectives in the English and Uzbek 
languages receive case forms? 
18.
Do the English and Uzbek adjectives agree in number, case and 
gender with the word they modify? 
19.
Do some Uzbek adjectives form the comparative and the 
superlative degrees by suppletion? 
20.
Give an example when the Uzbek adjective in the comparative 
degree is substantivized. 
21.
Are the Uzbek substantivized adjectives declined?