Adjectives Parts of Speech

What is an Adjective??  An adjective is a word that provides description for a NOUN.  They answer the questions:  What kind is it?  Includes color  How many are there?  Which one?  Whose is it?

What kind is it?  Take a look at the picture of the little girl.  GIRL is our noun  List adjectives that describe our noun. Little girl Angry girl Angry little girl Mischievous little girl Each one of the words in front of the noun “girl” works to describe WHAT KIND OF GIRL IS SHE

What kind is it?  What kind of _NOUN______ is it?  The main job of an adjective is to provide much needed description to an otherwise average noun.

What COLOR is it?  When paired with a noun, words that indicate color are considered adjectives.  What color is the ___noun___?

How Many Are There?  Number words paired with an noun are also adjectives.  Words that express numbers, like “a few, some, many, and a couple” are also adjectives.  How many __(nouns)___ are there?  Write out the number in word format  Ex. 8  Eight  Ex. 88  Eighty-eight

Which one is it??  Words like “this”, “that”, and “those” tell us which noun you are specifically talking about.  This shirt  That boy  Those girls, those people, those birds, those….

Whose is it?  Possessive pronouns  My, mine  Her, hers, his  Their  Its  These words show possession of a noun, so they can also be considered adjectives.  My father  That pencil is mine.  Her team lost.  That necklace is hers.  His car won’t start.  Their meeting took long.  The car lost its shine.

Sentence Patterns  There are a couple of ways in which adjectives find their place in a sentence.  Pattern 1: adjective + noun  Pattern 2: noun + linking verb + adjective

Pattern 1: Adjective + Noun  Nicole wore her favorite hat.  What noun is being described here??  Nicole wore her favorite baseball hat.  What kind of hat was it?  Notice there are TWO adjectives in front of the noun—that’s okay! The more the merrier.  Nicole wore her favorite blue baseball cap.

Pattern 2: Noun+ Linking Verb+ Adjective  The movie was long.  In this sentence, notice there is a small word separating the noun MOVIE from the word that describes it. This is called a linking verb.  Other linking verbs are:  Is, are, were