Adjective

Potential articles / sections

• Adjectives negated with 不
• Adjectives can form positive-negative questions.
• Some adjectives can be reduplicated for emphasis.
  • They are reduplicated AABB e.g. 干干净净.
  • 的 must be used with reduplicated adjectives.
• Can be followed by complements
• Can function as predicate. 是 is not used with adjectives.
• Single character adjectives can modify directly, e.g. 新书. 的 can optionally be inserted to emphasise the adjective: 新的书.
• A two character adjective modifying a single character noun has to have 的, e.g. 好看的画.
• If the adjective and noun are both two characters, 的 is optional as with single character adjectives.

• Stative verbs
• Non-predicate adjectives
• Attributive adjectives
• Qualitative adjectives

Sources

• 外国人实用汉语语法(中英文对照) (pp. 48 - 57)