Strong Adjectives - UMass
people.umass.edu › StrongAdjectivesChapter 6: Strong Adjectives. Adjectives are words that are used to describe nouns. Alfred was a great king. "great" describes the noun "king", so it is an adjective. There are two types of adjectives in Old English: Strong Adjectives, which are the subject of this chapter, and weak adjectives, which we cover in the next chapter.