1. Adjectives
What are Adjectives?

2. 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

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

4. The laptop computer has a blue and a black screen.

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

6. The school bus is big.
school
big

7. crazy
The pilot was crazy.

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

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

10. 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

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

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

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. 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.

19. Credits
Teacher Wagner Junior
Adjectives
Grammar