Is that word an ADJECTIVE? Use my grammar trick!

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My easy trick to find adjectives in English. If you see the verb “to be” – like am, is, are, was, or were – the next word is often an adjective. For example, in “I am tired” or “She is happy,” the words tired and happy are adjectives. I’ll also show you other verbs that work the same way, like “get”, “become”, “feel”, “look”, “taste”, and “appear”. You’ll also learn how to tell the difference between an adjective and a noun. By the end of this class, you’ll be able to find adjectives quickly and use them correctly in sentences. https://www.engvid.com/is-that-word-an-adjective-grammar-trick/ Visit https://EnglishWithRonnie.com to sign up for tutoring or get my book! More of my beginner grammar lessons: Learn English Grammar: NOUN, VERB, ADVERB, ADJECTIVE https://youtu.be/6TwBXmf-xdU TO BE in past tense https://youtu.be/lLqS8PK_pYs In this lesson: 0:00 What is an adjective? 0:42 "To be" 2:25 "To get/become" 5:14 Sense verbs Transcript: I'm going to teach you some magic about adjectives. So, what's an adjective, first of all? An adjective is something that describes a noun - colour, shape, size, what things look like, what things feel like. Maybe you're in school and your teacher's like, "Hey, you!" Yeah? Where's the adjective in this sentence? You're like, "I don't know. I don't know." Don't cry. It's good. Even I, when I'm reading something, I'll be like, "Oh my god, where's the adj-" Oh, is this word an adjective or a noun? What's happening here? So, this is my trick, okay? Foolproof. It's amazing. It works. Life hack. 42% of the time in English, if we have the verb "to be", right after that, there's going to be an adjective. So, if you go, like, backwards into this, if you have the verb "to be", be careful. We have to conjugate it, right? "Is", "am", and "are" is going to be followed by an adjective in the present tense. The past tense, right? "Was" and "were". Then we have our adjective. So, when I'm reading something in a sentence and I see the verb "to be", the next word that comes after it, it's an adjective. So, when you go backwards, you look at the adjective and you see, "Oh, there's the verb 'to be'." Yes. You've got it. But it's also super important to use the verb "to be" when you're using an adjective. So, I hear people say, "Ronnie, I tired." Oh, do you know what? You have to say, "I am tired", because you need the verb "to be". This is how I love to do this, okay? I like to do this. I like to put "to be" plus an adjective, and then put it in a big heart, so you always remember it. But my heart's going to grow bigger, because there are a few more verbs that we use. The verb "get", oh, everyone's favourite to hate. "Get" or "got". You will hear people say, "Yeah, you know, I got hungry." "But why didn't you say, 'I am hungry'?" Or "I'm going to get hungry tomorrow." It's like, "Why didn't you say, 'I'm going to be hungry tomorrow'?" We also have the word "become" in the present tense, or "became". They kind of mean the same thing. It's like a process. Right now, how are you? Are you happy? Are you sad? "Cold." You're cold. Oh, yeah. Okay. Put... Put on a sweater. Okay? Let's do this. So, you're going to say, "I am cold", so we know that "cold" is an adjective, okay? You can say, "Ah, you know what? Last night I was outside at the campfire and I got cold", or "I became cold". We use these verbs like a process. When you first go out to the campfire, like, "Yeah, this is great", or warm, and then you're like... The temperature's dropping, and you're like, "Oh, sh-oh, I'm cold", so you can say, "Oh, I got cold" or "I became cold". "Become" or "became" is a little bit more formal. We most of the time, we'd use "get" or "got". So, for example, "I got cold." Now, the other thing about this is you have to be careful because adjectives can also be nouns. So, for example, if you hear someone say, "I have a cold", hold on, "cold" is an adjective... Oh, no. Oh, okay. Let's look at that. "I have a cold." In this sentence, "cold" is not an adjective. Why? Oh, look it. We don't have these verbs. We don't have the verb "to be", we don't have "get" or "become", or any of these verbs down here. We have the verb "have". So, we know because we have "have" and because we have an article that this is actually a noun. Oh my god. So be careful. English is tricky, but with this trick, it'll help you out. Most popular. Okay? "Get". With something that happened to you recently, like an emotion, you say, "Oh, you know, I got depressed. I became depressed." Or "I got", I don't know. "Stupid." Yeah, I got stupid. That's cool. Did you get stupid? Maybe over the summer. Maybe over the campfire. Anyways, the next one we have, very common, are "sense" verbs. So "sense" means your senses. So, we have "feel", now "feel" is "touch". Okay? So, for example, if I have this guy, SpongeBob, ooh, he feels soft. "Soft" is an adjective. It's the sense of touch. […]