1. Do Now – Sept 28, 2011
Take out homework (Verbs packet)
Write the following sentences in your journals. Underline linking verbs, draw a circle around action verbs, and box helping verbs.
Juliet will visit Romeo tomorrow night.
Lady Capulet looked angry as she yelled.
Mercutio became tired after the party.

2. Adjectives & Adverbs

3. An adjective describes or limits a noun or pronoun.
Adjectives
An adjective describes or limits a noun or pronoun.
It always answers these three questions:
Which one?
What kind?
How many?

4. Example:
Four boys collected scary spiders and placed them into large buckets.
How many boys? – FOUR
What kind of spiders? - SCARY
Which buckets? - LARGE

5. Hint!
The adjective is usually located in front of the noun that it modifies.
Ex) Maria put on a dazzling hat.

6. Nouns sometimes function as adjectives.
Ex) Helen put on her baseball cap.
In this sentence, the word “baseball” describes what kind of cap it is.
The three articles (a, an, & the) always function as adjectives.
Ex) I’ll use the spoon.
The word “the” tells us which spoon the writer will use.

7. Possessive nouns (such as Henry’s, America’s, & dog’s) and possessive pronouns (my, mine, your, yours, etc) always function as adjectives.
Ex) Take Henry’s answers and compare them with your answers.
The adjectives Henry’s and your both tell WHICH answers will be compared.

8. Adverbs
An adverb is a word that describes or limits a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
It answers these four questions:
How?
When?
Where?
To what extent?

9. Adverbs help you describe an action more precisely, more vividly, and as completely as possible.
Ex) Leila walked to her grandmother’s house and knocked on the door.
With adverbs: Today Leila walked briskly to her grandmother’s house and knocked excitedly on the door.

10. An adverb usually appears next to the verb, adjective, or adverb that it describes.
Nouns often function as adverbs.
Ex) Yesterday, Oliver fell down.
In the above sentence, yesterday names a thing, but it also tells us WHEN Oliver fell.

11. Here are some words that always function as adverbs:
NOT
NEVER
ALWAYS
SOMETIMES
OFTEN