Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Adjectives
469
Adjectives
09/10/2018
Holy Family Academy
A descriptive adjective gives information about a noun or a pronoun. It tells about number, color, size, or another quality.
1
Most adjectives go before the noun they describe.
Mexican poetry comes in many shapes.
However, adjective may also directly follow nouns.
The vase, ancient and cracked, was found nearby.
Descriptive Adjectives
An adjective can be a subject complement, a word that follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
The vase is green.
Adjectives as Complements
An adjective can also be a object complement, a word that follows a direct object and describes it.
The artist painted the vase green.
Demonstrative, Interrogative, and Indefinite Adjectives
2
Demonstrative adjectives point out persons, places, things, or ideas. They are this, that, those, and these.
This box is heavy.
That house is my house.
Demonstrative, Interrogative, and Indefinite
Interrogative
Interrogative adjectives are used in questions. The interrogative adjectives are what, which, and whose.
What equipment do you need to play tennis?
Which tennis racket on the table is yours?
Indefinite
Indefinite adjectives refer to any or all of a group.
Indefinite adjectives include both, few, every, several, all, another, some, many, most, each, either, and neither.
Each student receives special attention.
Few friends are as loyal as you are.
Most adjective have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative.
3
Positive: My grandmother is tall.
Comparative: My grandfather is taller.
Superlative: My uncle Jack is the tallest member of my family.
Comparative and Superlative
Rules
Objectives
Certain adjectives have irregular comparisons. If you are uncertain check a dictionary.
For adjectives with three or more syllables, and some two syllables, the comparative is formed by using more or less, and the superlative by using most or least in front of the positive.
If the adjective has one syllable, and some two syllables ending in -y, the comparative is formed by adding -er to the positive form, and the superlative is formed by adding -est.
Count nouns are things that can be counted: such as cups hammers and feelings.
4
Use adjectives few, fewer, and fewest to compare count nouns
Few and Little
Noncount nouns name things that cannot be seen or touched: like water equipment, and patience
Little
Noncount nouns tend to be abstract.
Use the adjectives little, less, and least to compare noncount nouns.
A prepositional phrases is made up of a preposition and the object of the preposition. It can be used as an adjective phrase.
5
Did they see the ruins of the mission?
Adjective Phrases and Clauses
A adjective clause usually begins with a relative pronoun (who, whom, whose, which, that) or a subordinate conjunction (where, when).
These word connect the clause to the noun it modifies.
Clauses
A restrictive adjective clause is necessary to the meaning of the sentence. So you are restricted from removing it.
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive
A nonrestrictive clause is not necessary to the meaning of the sentence. They are set off by commas.
Generally you use that to start off restrictive clauses and which with nonrestrictive clauses.