The focus of this thesis, analyzes the semantic structure of evaluative adjectives in the clause and discusses its meanings, making use of Martin s appraisal theory and Hunston s local grammar of evaluation.

AIM: To measure the seven factors of Chinese personality dimensions by the Chinese Personality Adjective Scale (QZPAS), a short-version adjective scale.

When a character adjective is used as a predicate,it is generally on the occasions of contrast,questions and answers,etc,and it has comparative characteristics.

However,at present,few people in the theory area study ABAB style overlapping of character adjectives.

The importance of proper application of adjectives in Japanese is discussed By discussing the sentences whiched formed with the characteristic adjectives and feeling adjectives, both the main differ- ences among the sentences formed with characteristic or feeling adjectives and the features of these sen- tences are emphasized.