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Adjective Notes

Adjective Notes. Adjective. An adjective describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun. To modify means to change slightly or make the meaning more definite. Adjectives usually answer one of the following questions about the nouns and pronouns they modify. Questions that Adjectives Answer.

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Adjective Notes

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  1. Adjective Notes

  2. Adjective • An adjective describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun. • To modify means to change slightly or make the meaning more definite. • Adjectives usually answer one of the following questions about the nouns and pronouns they modify.

  3. Questions that Adjectives Answer

  4. Article Adjectives • A, an, and the are known as the article adjectives. • These are the most commonly used adjectives. • They stand in front of nouns and pronouns and answer the question which one?

  5. The is the definite article because it refers to someone in particular. • Examples: the principal, the canoe, the wool sweater. • A and an are indefinite because they refer to someone or something in general. • Examples: a dog, an apple

  6. Use a in front of a word that begins with a consonant sound. • Example: a unicorn, a pencil, a book, a humorous person • Use an in front of a word that begins with a vowel sound. • Example: an old map, an uncle, an honest person

  7. Nouns Used as Adjectives • When a noun modifies another noun or pronoun, it is considered an adjective. • It will usually come directly before another noun and will answer the questions what kind? or which one?

  8. Proper Adjectives • Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns and begin with a capital letter. • There are two types of proper adjectives: • A proper noun used as an adjective • An adjective formed from a proper noun

  9. When proper nouns are used as adjectives, they do not change form.- However, when an adjective is formed from a proper noun, it does change form.

  10. Compound Adjectives • A compound adjective is made up of more than one word and may be hyphenated or written as a compound word.

  11. Pronouns Used as Adjectives • A pronoun is used as an adjective if it modifies a noun. • A possessive adjective shows ownership or relationship. • The following possessive pronouns are often called possessive adjectives. They will come in front of the noun they modify and will answer the question which one? • Examples: my, its, your, our, her, their • Bobby fixed his bicycle.

  12. Demonstrative adjectives are also pronouns that are used as adjectives. • The demonstrative adjectives are this, that, these, those. • Examples: We saw that man yesterday. That car is a good buy. These apples are rotten.

  13. Interrogative adjectives are also pronouns that can be used as adjectives. • The interrogative adjectives are which, what, whose. • Examples: Which prize do you think she will choose? • Whose umbrella can that be?

  14. Predicate Adjectives • If an adjective follows a linking verb in a sentence, it is called the predicate adjective. • The predicate adjective is the complement in the sentence. • Examples: Mark is nice. (nice is the predicate adjective)

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