1. Chapter 3: Adjectives
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2. My Aunt Cestor’s expensive hat matches her opulent purse.
Adjective:
Describes or limits a noun or pronoun
My Aunt Cestor’s expensive hat matches her opulent purse.

3. There are 2 kinds of Adjectives:
Descriptive
Limiting
There are 2 kinds of Adjectives:

4. “Beautiful” is descriptive.
Adjectives
Beautiful Aunt Cestor
Two beautiful aunts
“Beautiful” is descriptive.
“Two” is limiting.

5. Descriptive Adjectives
There are two kinds of Descriptive Adjectives
Common
Proper

6. A young boy and his fat chicken sit.
Common Adjectives:
Describe the ordinary qualities of a noun or pronoun.
Noun
Noun
A young boy and his fat chicken sit.
Adjective
Adjective

7. We spotted a Yetian Big Foot.
Proper Adjectives:
Are formed from a Proper Noun.
Proper Adjective
We spotted a Yetian Big Foot.
Proper Adjectives

8. Nouns or Adjectives A balloon is lighter A lighter The lighter sky
The use of a word in the sentence determines the part of speech. Sometimes a word can be either a noun or adjective.
A lighter
A balloon is lighter
The lighter sky

9. Position of Adjectives
Her bubble dress makes her look turgid.
The usual position of the adjective is before the noun
Position of Adjectives

10. Position of Adjectives
The agile children loved the monkey bars.
In this sentence, agile comes right before children, the noun it describes

11. Position of Adjectives
Some adjectives follow and complete a linking verb.
When an adjective follows and completes a linking verb, it is called a SUBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT.
Those children are brave!

12. Lesson 2
Limiting Adjectives

13. Keeping it real, even if it kills me
Limiting Adjectives
These are words that could be both pronouns or adjectives. I skipped this section in the last pronoun chapter.
Articles A An
The
Numericals
Two
Second
Twenty
Fifty
Third
Pronomials
Possessive
Demonstrative
Interrogative
Indefinite
Distributive
Keeping it real, even if it kills me

14. Limiting Adjectives: ArticlesAn
The
A fantastic Playground
Article: a limiting adjective that modifies a noun. There are only three articles; “a” “an” and “the.”
An Excellent classroom
The Fancy Family

15. Limiting Adjectives: Articles
My Uncle Seymoure and Aunt Ophelia Hiney are an interesting couple. He is a fashion icon. She is the make-up guru in her retirement community.

16. Articles: Definite or Indefinite
The uncle is coming for Thanksgiving? (Because there is only one uncle Seymour Hiney.)
The Uncle
An Aunt
Articles can be indefinite.
Articles can be definite
An aunt is coming for Thanksgiving. (Which aunt?) (Aunt Ophelia, Aunt Cestor, or Auntie Cedent?) I don’t know.
When you aren’t sure which one. . .

17. Limiting Adjectives: Numericals
A Limiting Adjective: is an adjective that either points out an object or denotes a number
In case you forgot the definition. . .
There are 3 Limiting Adjectives
Articles
Numericals
Pronominals
Or, in case you forgot to the definition down. . .

18. Limiting Adjectives: Numericals
Some numericals refer to the number of things:
Three day weekend
Numericals:
Other numerical refer to the place of an item in a sequence:
God rested on the 7th day.
An adjective that denotes an exact number

19. Numericals
Cardinal Numbers
Ordinal Numbers

20. This couple has six monkeys. This couple has fourteen children
Numericals
This boy is the fourth youngest
This couple has six monkeys.
This couple has fourteen children

21. Limiting Adjectives Articles Numericals Pronomials
A Limiting Adjective: is an adjective that either points out an object or denotes a number
There are three kinds of Limiting Adjectives
Articles
Pronomials
Numericals
In case you forgot the definition. . .
Or, in case you forgot to the definition down. . .

22. Limiting Adjectives: Pronomials
Demonstrative Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Distributive Adjectives
Indefinite Adjectives
Interrogative
Adjectives that can also be pronouns.

23. Pronomials
“That”
Can be an Adjective
Give me that newspaper.
Can be a Pronoun
Give me that.
When certain pronouns stand alone, they are pronouns. When they modify or limit nouns, they are adjectives
Adjective
Pronoun

24. Pronomials: Demonstratives
Demonstrative adjectives point out a definite person, place or thing.
This
That
These
Those
There are
only four
De-mon-stra-tive
Ad-jec-tives

25. Demonstrative Adjectives
This picture needs an inspirational quote.
That picture is very silly.
These power points are very educational.
Those pictures of Mrs. Hiney’s aunts are very old.

26. Demonstrative Adjectives
“Those”
Can be an Adjective
Those papers are mine.
Can be a Pronoun
Those are mine.
When certain pronouns stand alone, they are pronouns. When they modify or limit nouns, they are adjectives
Adjective
Pronoun

27. Pronomials: Distributives
Distributive Adjectives refers to each person, place or thing separately.
Each
Every
Neither
Either
There are
only four
Dis-trib-uative
Ad-jec-tives

28. Distributive Adjectives
Each child sat nicely on the ostrich cart.
Every child had a turn.
Either the ostrich cart or the goat cart will pick you up after school. I have travelled neither by ostrich cart nor by goat cart.

29. Distributive Adjectives
“Each”
Can be an Adjective
Each friend received a book.
Can be a Pronoun
I gave each a book.
When certain pronouns stand alone, they are pronouns. When they modify or limit nouns, they are adjectives
Adjective
Pronoun

30. Pronomials: Possessives
Possessive adjectives denotes ownership. My
Our
Your
Her
There are
Seven
Their
His
Its

31. Possessive Adjectives

32. Possessive Adjectives
Their crib
Her ride.

33. Interrogative Adjectives
Which flavor do you like best?
What football team do you want to win the Superbowl?
Whose red shirt is this?

34. Interrogative Adjectives
Remember that interrogatives are both limiting and pronomials

35. Indefinite Adjectives
Wake up sunshine

36. Indefinite Adjectives

37. Indefinite Adjectives