Adjectives

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Adjectives
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Adjectives

• An adjective describes a noun or a pronoun.
• An adjective answers
• What kind?
• Which one?
• How many?

Example happy dog tired boy seven girls
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Rules of adjectives

• ADJECTIVE RULES
• 1. Adjectives can come before nouns a new car
• 2. Adjectives can come after verbs such as be,
  become, seem, look, etc. That car looks fast!
  (linking verb)
• 3. They can be modified by adverbs a very
  expensive car They can be used as
  complements to a noun The extras make the
  car expensive. (complements predicate
• adjectives)

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Types of adjectives

• 1. Adjectival NounAn Adjective can sometimes
  function as a Noun the young, the rich, etc.
  These are Adjectival Nouns, meaning the people
  who are young, the people who are rich, etc. 2.
  Attributive AdjectiveAn attributive adjective
  comes before a noun and not after a copula verb,
  like BE, SEEM, etc.

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Types of adjectives

• 1. Common AdjectiveA common adjective is an
  adjective that is not written with a capital
  letter. Most adjectives are common- ones that are
  written with a capital letter are proper
  adjectives.
• 2. Demonstrative AdjectivesDemonstrative
  adjectives (this, that, these, those) show
  whether the noun they refer to is singular or
  plural and whether it is located near to or far
  from the speaker or writer.

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Types continued

• 3. Possessive Adjectives
• My, your, his, her, its, our, and their are the
  English possessive adjectives, used with nouns to
  show possession or ownership.EG. That's my
  folder. (My is an adjective which shows that I am
  the owner of the folder.)

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Types continued

• 4. Predicative AdjectivesA predicative adjective
  comes after a copula verb (linking verb) and not
  before a noun. A predicate adjective follows a
  linking verb and describes your subject! Mrs.
  Killian is .5. Proper AdjectiveA proper
  adjective is an adjective that is written with a
  capital letter. They are often derived from
  proper nouns A Japanese camera- Japanese is
  derived from the proper noun Japan.This is not
  always the caseNative Americans- Native is not
  derived from a proper noun, but is capitalized as
  the words together form the name of the group of
  people.

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Types of adjectives cont.

• 8. Ordinary adjectives that are not written with
  a capital letter are common adjectives. 9.
  Resultative AdjectivesA resultative adjective is
  an adjective that is placed postpositively (after
  the noun it modifies) and reflects a change that
  occurs by action of the verb on the noun. Hence
  result ative. He cooked the meat rare.
  She painted the
  fence white.
  She rinsed the glass clean.

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To find an adjective you need to locate the nouns
first.

• Three happy children played at the park.
• The donkey stepped on my large hat.
• The child was brave.

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Let's Practice
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Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns
We saw the gray elephant at the zoo.
Then ask, What words describe the
nouns? WHAT KIND? WHICH ONE? HOW MANY?
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Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns
The rabbit followed the slow turtle.
Then ask, What words describe the
nouns? WHAT KIND? WHICH ONE? HOW MANY?
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Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns
He found two pennies on the ground.
Then ask, What words describe the
nouns? WHAT KIND? WHICH ONE? HOW MANY?
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Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns
The children heard the loud bell.
Then ask, What words describe the
nouns? WHAT KIND? WHICH ONE? HOW MANY?
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Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns
The brown dog growled at the tall man.
Then ask, What words describe the
nouns? WHAT KIND? WHICH ONE? HOW MANY?