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What do Adjectives do?

What do Adjectives do? Adjectives describe/modify nouns and pronouns. They tell which one? how many? and what kind?. Possessive Pronouns doing the “job” of an adjective -. my, mine, your, yours, her, hers, his, their, theirs, our and ours Example: Joe, come over to my house today.

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What do Adjectives do?

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  1. What do Adjectives do? Adjectives describe/modify nouns and pronouns. They tell which one? howmany? and what kind?

  2. Possessive Pronouns doing the “job” of an adjective - my, mine, your, yours, her, hers, his, their, theirs, our and ours Example: Joe, come over to my house today. My is the adjective modifying house.

  3. Predicate Adjectives • A predicate adjective is an adjective that is in the predicate of the sentence and works “backwards” to describe/modify a noun in the subject portion of the sentence. Example: Sue is pretty. Pretty is the adjective in the predicate and it works backwards to describe Sue. Sue is the fastest on the team. Fastest is the adjective in the predicate and it works backwards to describe Sue.

  4. Demonstrative Adjectives this, that, these, those Examples: This is mine. This in the above sentence is a pronoun. This sweater is mine. This in the above sentence is an adjective because this describes the sweater.

  5. Interrogative Adjectives what, which, whose Examples: Which is mine. Which in the above sentence is a pronoun. Which sweater is mine. Which in the above sentence is an adjective because which describes the sweater.

  6. Indefinite Adjectives • An indefinite adjective is similar to an indefinite pronoun, except that it modifies a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase. Examples: • Many people believe that corporations are under-taxed. The indefinite adjective “many” modifies the noun “people.” • They found a few goldfish floating belly up in the swan pond. The indefinite adjective “few” modifies the noun “goldfish.” • The title of Kelly's favorite game is “All Dogs go to Heaven.'' The indefinite adjective “all” modifies “dogs.''

  7. Comparative Adjectives • Used to compare two things. • Comparative adjectives are formed by adding –ER to the adjective or in some cases by adding MORE in front of the adjective. Examples: Sue is prettier than Paula. Going to Disneyland is MORE fun than going to school.

  8. Superlative Adjectives • Used to compare three or more things. • Superlative adjectives are formed by adding –EST to the adjective or in some cases by adding MOST in front of the adjective. Examples: Sue is the prettiest girl in 7th grade. Going to Disneyland is the MOST fun you could ever have.

  9. Exceptions to the –ER, -EST rule • Some words change form completely when forming the comparative and superlative. These you need to memorize. ComparativeSuperlative Good better best Bad worse worst Little less least

  10. Articles a, an, the • These three words are a “special” kind of adjective called an article. For our purposes this year, you will never label these three words as adjectives. You just need to know that in a grammatical sense they are classified as adjectives.

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