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Adjective: a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun

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2 Adjective: a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun

3 Adjectives can be: Adjacent to the noun/pronoun the slow dog Or in the predicate, following the noun/pronoun (and a linking verb) the dog is slow

4 Two Types of Modifying Adjectives:
Descriptive: words we typically think of as adjectives Determiners: Articles: a, an, the Demonstratives (this, that, these, those) Numbers (cardinal and ordinal) Possessives (Betty’s, his) Quantifiers (some, much, many, most, all)

5 The Pair Test: Since adjectives modify nouns, try pairing the word up with a noun. If it can work in front of that noun, it’s an adjective the special, Chicago-style, deep-dish pizza the pizza special pizza Chicago-style pizza deep-dish pizza

6 The Pair Test: Since adjectives modify nouns, try pairing the word up with a noun. If it can work in front of that noun, it’s an adjective my extremely fast, very beautiful horse my horse extremely horse fast horse very horse beautiful horse


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