Adjective: a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun

Adjectives can be: Adjacent to the noun/pronoun the slow dog Or in the predicate, following the noun/pronoun (and a linking verb) the dog is slow

Two Types of Modifying Adjectives: Descriptive: words we typically think of as adjectives Determiners: Articles: a, an, the Demonstratives (this, that, these, those) Numbers (cardinal and ordinal) Cardinal: a number denoting quantity (one, two, three, etc.) Ordinal: (first, second, third, etc.) Possessives (Betty’s, his, your, my, its, our, etc.) Quantifiers (some, much, many, most, all)

The Pair Test: Since adjectives modify nouns, try pairing the word up with a noun. If it can work in front of that noun, it’s an adjective the special, Chicago-style, deep-dish pizza the pizza special pizza Chicago-style pizza deep-dish pizza

The Pair Test: Since adjectives modify nouns, try pairing the word up with a noun. If it can work in front of that noun, it’s an adjective my extremely fast, very beautiful horse my horse extremely horse fast horse very horse beautiful horse