Adjectives What are Adjectives?

An adjective is a word that modifies a noun. What is an adjective? An adjective is a word that modifies a noun. colorful big old happy

Find the adjectives. The bald teacher handed out the white papers.

The laptop computer has a blue and a black screen.

All adjectives that describe a noun and which are placed before the noun are called attributive adjectives.

The school bus is big. school big

crazy The pilot was crazy.

The adjectives that are part of the predicate after a linking verb are called predicative adjectives.

When you have more than one adjective, they need to follow certain order.

Deter. Quality Physical Description Origin Material Qualifier Noun Size Shape Age Color A beautiful old Italian touring car An expensive antique silver mirror Four gorgeous long red silk roses Her short black hair Our big English sheepdog Those squared wooden hat boxes That dilapidated little hunting cabin Several huge young American soccer players Some delicious Thai food

That bad big dog frequently chased the scared little boys up trees.

happy little green yellow The happy little green and yellow bug is eating.

Add endings to these words so that they become adjectives Add endings to these words so that they become adjectives. thought – care – child – fashion – norm – wood – gold – hope – forget – atom – hero – history – economic – fool – defect – attract – harm – sugar – fame – error – space – taste – wealth – wind

Sometimes nouns act as adjectives. The two doctors visited the sick patient at the community hospital.

There are single adjectives like: nice / intelligent / huge / important. There are multiword adjectives like: good-looking / self-confident / two-year-old / well-bred / well-intentioned. single multiword

Comparison of adjectives Comparative Adjectives Ex: more intelligent – less intelligent nicer – less nice Superlative Adjectives EX: most intelligent – least intelligent nicest – least nice Equality Adjectives EX: as intelligent as as nice as

little brown more The little brown cat is more outrageous than other cats. outrageous

Exercises: Recognize the adjectives and say if they are attributive or predicative. 1 – Fragrant homemade bread is becoming common in many American homes. 2 – The early Egyptians added yeast and made conical, triangular, or spiral loaves as well as large, flat, open-centered disks. 3 – People used to eat black bread because they were poor. 4 – Bread lovers now buy black bread by choice.

Credits Teacher Wagner Junior Adjectives Grammar