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Adjectives Mrs. Pope. What are Adjectives? Adjectives are modifiers. They modify nouns or pronouns. This means they change the image of a noun or pronoun.

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Page 1: Adjectives Mrs. Pope. What are Adjectives? Adjectives are modifiers. They modify nouns or pronouns. This means they change the image of a noun or pronoun.

AdjectivesMrs. Pope

Page 2: Adjectives Mrs. Pope. What are Adjectives? Adjectives are modifiers. They modify nouns or pronouns. This means they change the image of a noun or pronoun.

What are Adjectives?

• Adjectives are modifiers. They modify nouns or pronouns. This means they change the image of a noun or pronoun.

• Adjectives can be located by asking the questions:What kind?Which one?How many?How much?

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What are Adjectives?

Picture a car in your mind. Do you have an

image in your head? Now make it red.

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What is an Adjective?

Now make it fast.

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What is an Adjective?

Now make it old-fashioned.

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What is an Adjective?

Now make it broken.

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What is an Adjective?

Now make it green.

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What is an Adjective?

Adjectives change the meaning of a noun by somehow changing the image of it.

That’s why they are called modifiers.

There are two kinds of adjectives:descriptive

and limiting.

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Descriptive Adjectives• Descriptive adjectives

DESCRIBE!

• The add some sensory image to your sentence which allows the reader to see, smell, hear, touch, or taste something in the sentence.

• All of the modifiers in the earlier section of the slide show concerning the car were descriptive adjectives. They made the car red, fast, old-fashioned, broken, and green. Those words are all adjectives!

• Descriptive adjectives make writing much better!

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Proper Adjectives

• One type of descriptive adjective is called the proper adjective.

• Proper adjectives are derived from, or come from, proper nouns. This means that they must always be capitalized.

• Proper adjectives sometimes are formed by adding a suffix to the proper noun.

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Proper Adjectives

Examples of Proper Adjectives

Proper Noun Proper AdjectiveAmerica AmericanFrance FrenchChina ChinesePennsylvania Pennsylvanian

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Proper AdjectivesSometime proper nouns don’t change in form at all when they become

proper adjectives.Ex. President Kennedy was a good leader. (In this sentence President Kennedy is a person; therefore, he is a noun.)

Ex. The Kennedy Library is very large. (in this sentence Kennedy is describing the library; therefore, it is an adjective.)

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Limiting Adjectives

• Limiting adjectives point out nouns. • There are five kinds of them:

ArticlesPossessives

DemonstrativesIndefinites

Interrogatives

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Articles

There are three articles:a

anthe

“The” is called a definite article because it points out nouns more specifically.

“A” and “an” are called indefinite articles because they do not point nouns out as specifically.

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Articles

“The” can be used before both singular and plural nouns.Ex. the cat, the houses

“A” and “an” can only be used before singular nouns.Ex. a book, an elephant

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Articles

“The” can be used before both vowels and consonants.Ex. the ant, the car

“A” must be used before consonant sounds. Ex. a duck, a fossil, a uniform

“An” must be used before a vowel sounds.Ex. an umbrella, an excuse

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Possessive Adjectives

• Possessive adjectives show ownership of a noun.

• These words are the same as the possessive pronouns.

• There are fourteen possessive adjectives:my, mine our, oursyour, yours your, yourshis, her, hers, its their, theirs

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Demonstrative Adjectives

• Demonstrative adjectives point out a noun.• They are the same words as the

demonstrative pronouns.• There are four demonstratives:

thisthatthesethose

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Indefinite Adjectives

• Indefinite adjectives point out nouns.• They often tell “how many” or “how much” of

something.• There are seventeen of them:

all, any, another, both, each, either, few, little, many, more, most, much, neither, one, other, several, some

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Interrogative Adjectives

• Interrogative adjectives are used to ask questions.

• Three of them were also interrogative pronouns:

whichwhatwhose

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Limiting Adjectives• Many limiting adjectives have also been studied as pronouns.

How do you tell when they are pronouns and when they are adjectives?-If a word is a pronoun, it will be renaming a person, place, or thing.

Ex. That is a pencil. (That is renaming the pencil; therefore, it is a pronoun.)-If a word is an adjective, it will be pointing out a noun.

Ex. That pencil is big. (That is pointing out a pencil, and pencil is a noun; therefore, it is an adjective.)

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Location of AdjectivesAdjectives can be located in three places in a sentence.

1. The most common location is directly in front of the noun it is modifying.

Ex. the big dog, the new toy

2. Another location is after a linking verb or verb of condition. These are called predicate adjectives.

Ex. The game was interesting.3. The final location of adjectives occurs after a noun when it

is set off by commas.Ex. The book, well-written and suspenseful, kept my interest.