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ADJECTIVES
►An adjective describes a person,
place, thing, or idea. An adjective
provides information about the
size, shape, color, texture, feeling,
sound, smell, number, or condition
of a noun or a pronoun.
►To put it simply, an adjective tells
what kind, which one, or how many
about a noun or a pronoun.
Find the adjectives in
the following sentence.
For now, we will not choose articles,
possessives or demonstrative adjectives
(this, that, these, or those) as adjectives.
• Many groups of visitors admire
the huge new building.
Where will I find
adjectives?
• Most adjectives come before
the nouns they modify.
• Sometimes adjectives follow
linking verbs and modify the
noun or pronoun that is the
subject of the sentence.
Some architects are skillful and creative.
• In the sentence above, the
adjectives skillful and creative
follow the linking verb are and
modify the subject, architects.
They are called predicate
adjectives.
Definition
• A predicate adjective is an
adjective that follows a linking
verb and modifies the subject of
the sentence.
Forms of Verbs as
Adjectives
• Forms of verbs are often used
as adjectives and predicate
adjectives.
• These verb forms will end in
-ed (past participle) or
-ing (present participle).
Find the participles in
the following
sentences.
• The architect created a surprising design.
• The building is decorated.
Now let’s practice…
Find the adjectives in the
following sentences.
• Good architects often have an artistic
background.
• They arrange many different materials into
beautiful shapes.
• Reliable architects have studied
engineering.
…just a few more.
• The baby boy got sticky, green candy on his
sister’s new dress.
• Four students read silently while their
lovely English teacher smiled happily.
• The worried mother searched for her tiny
daughter in the shopping mall.
• Noisy fireworks are one way celebrate
many different holidays.
Now you try it!
• Turn in your workbook to
page 117.
• Follow the instructions
given in the workbook.
• Remember, we are not
marking articles,
possessives, or
demonstrative adjectives.
Adjectives: Part 2
• The words a, an, and the make
up a special group of adjectives
called ARTICLES.
• PROPER ADJECTIVES are
formed from proper nouns and
always begin with a capital
letter.
Ex. Irish, American, Italian
Comparative and
Superlative Adjectives
• Adjectives can compare two or
more nouns or pronouns.
• The COMPARATIVE form of an
adjective compares two things
or people.
• The SUPERLATIVE form of an
adjective compares three or
more things or people.
Comparative and
Superlative Adjectives
• For most one-syllable and some two-
syllable adjectives, -er and –est are
added to form the comparative and
superlative. Two syllable words
ending in y usually follow this rule.
Ex. Happier, floppier, droopiest
• For many two and three-syllable
words the comparative and
superlative are formed by adding
more and most before the adjective.
Demonstratives
• This, that, these, and those are
called DEMONSTRATIVES.
• When these words describe
nouns, they are demonstrative
adjectives.
• When they take the place of
nouns, they are demonstrative
pronouns.
• The words here and there should not
be used with demonstrative
adjectives. The words this, that,
these, and those already point out
here or there.
Ex. This ancient rattle is called a
sistrum. (not This here ancient
rattle; never this here, that there,
these here, or those there)
• The object pronoun them should not
be used in place of the
demonstrative adjective those.
Ex. Those finger cymbals are the
smallest cymbals. (not Them finger
cymbals)