1. Adjectives and Predicate Adjectives 23
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. It offers more information about the word it modifies. Adjectives often come before the noun or pronoun being modified.
Adjectives answer three questions:
What Kind? Ex. Wooden canoe
Which one? Ex. Downtown market
How many? Ex. Two apples
Proper adjectives are capitalized.
Ex. We ate Thai food.
A predicate adjective follows a linking verb and modifies the subject of a sentence.
Ex. The windows on the back of the shed appeared broken.
Broken is a predicate adjective following the linking verb appeared. It modifies window, the subject of the sentence.