Adjectives

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Adjectives

• An adjective is a word that describes. Adjectives
  convey a sense of which, what kind, or how
  many/much. Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns.

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In order to find the adjectives, lets first find
the nouns

• Those six stellar Spanish students sat in a stone
  schoolhouse staring at seventeen silver statues.

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In order to find the adjectives, lets first find
the nouns

• Those six stellar Spanish students sat in a stone
  schoolhouse staring at seventeen silver statues.

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Which?

• Those six stellar Spanish students sat in a stone
  schoolhouse staring at seventeen silver statues.

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Which?
How Many?

• Those six stellar Spanish students sat in a stone
  schoolhouse staring at seventeen silver statues.

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Which?
What Kind?
How Many?

• Those six stellar Spanish students sat in a stone
  schoolhouse staring at seventeen silver statues.

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What is the adjective and what does it convey?

• Last summer I climbed that mountain.
• I prefer red apples.
• I want six oranges.
• It was a cold, gray, and ominous dawn.
• The dawn was bright, clear, and invigorating.

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• Last summer I climbed that mountain. (which)I
  prefer red apples. (what kind)I want six
  oranges. (how many)It was a cold, gray, and
  ominous dawn. (what kind)The dawn was bright,
  clear, and invigorating. (what kind)

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Positive, Comparative, Superlative Adjectives

• Good, Better, Best... never let it rest, until
  your Good is Better and your Better is Best

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Positive, Comparative, Superlative Adjectives

• Positive adjectives are in their simplest form
• Washington has hot weather.

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Positive, Comparative, Superlative Adjectives

• Comparative compares between two nouns
• Floridas weather is hotter than Washingtons
  weather.

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Positive, Comparative, Superlative Adjectives

• Superlative states the highest degree
• Floridas weather is hotter than Washingtons
  weather, but Ecuador has the hottest weather.

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• The Rosemont team is better than the Middlesboro
  team, but Ashland is the best team.
• Timothy is a fast runner Harold is faster than
  Timothy, and Martin is the fastest runner.

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Examples

• Positive Comparative Superlative
• short shorter shortest
• great greater greatest
• small smaller smallest
• old older oldest

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Incomparable adjectives.Some adjectives cannot
be compared because the positive (simplest) form
expresses the only degree possible.

• Perfect Wrong
• Unique Straight
• Fatal Vertical
• Universal Dead
• Right Left