The article is devoted to a difficult topic: brief adjectives, their study and spelling. Regarding the spelling, it can be argued that it can be learned correctly by brief adjectives, but it is much more difficult to use them in the right situations in your speech, since the type of adjectives implies special vocabulary and speech. We do not always use brief adjectives, but only when we want to express exactly our personal attitude, our assessment of an object or living being. There is a certain courage in the semantics of short adjectives. It is especially interesting to explain the cases of the use of short adjectives for military personnel who have not yet learned full adjectives. This can be done on the example of military proverbs and sayings, which is replete with military vocabulary. In the practical part of the article, a sufficient number of exercises, tasks are provided.