Adjectives

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Adjectives

• Nathan P. Wells
• Greenfield Elementary
• Fourth Grade

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Adjectives

• Describes a noun or pronoun.
• Special kinds of words used to make other words
  more definite.
• Modifiers provide additional information.
• Adjectives describes or limits the word it
  modifies.

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Look at these sentences

• The boat sank. (without modifier)
• The red boat sank. (with modifier)

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Placement of adjectives

• Adjectives usually come before the nouns they
  modify. (towering cliffs)
• Sometimes they come after the words they modify.
  (Rainfall is plentiful here)

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Adjectives

• Answer questions such as
• What kind? How many? How much?
• Which one? Which ones?

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Articles

• a
• an
• the

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Proper adjective

• Formed from a proper noun and is always
  capitalized.
• Example A Chicago museum

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Common adjective

• Any adjective that is not proper
• Examples
• mammoth
• tiny
• his

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Three types of adjectives

• Compound
• Demonstrative
• Indefinite
• Predicate

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Compound adjective

• More than one word
• Example
• scar-faced
• well-fed

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Demonstrative adjective

• Points out a particular noun
• Examples
• this
• these

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Indefinite adjective

• An approximate number or quantity
• Examples
• some
• many

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Predicate adjective

• Follows linking verb and describes the subject
• Example
• The frustrated kitten is unpleasant.

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Forms of adjectives

• Positive
• Comparative
• Superlative
• Two-syllable
• Three or more syllables

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Positive adjective

• Describes noun/pronoun without comparing it
• Example
• Superman is tough.
• Superman is wonderful.

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Comparative adjective

• Compares two persons, places, things, ideas
• Examples
• Tarzan is tougher than Superman.

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Superlative adjectives

• Compares three or more persons, places, things,
  or ideas
• Examples
• But I, Big Bird, am the toughest of all!

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Two-syllable adjectives

• Show comparisons either by their er / est
  suffixes or by modifiers, like more and most
• Examples
• clumsy, clumsier, clumsiest
• clumsy, more clumsy, most clumsy

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Three or more syllable adjectives

• Three or more syllables and usually require the
  words more/most, less/least to express
  comparison
• Example
• ridiculous, less ridiculous, least ridiculous