1. Adjectives

2. What is an Adjective?
An adjective is a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or a pronoun.
Ex: A heavy rainstorm soaked the campsite.
Ex: The thirty students piled into the crowded room.
What are the adjectives?

3. Adjectives answer 3 Questions.
What Kind?
Which one?
How many?
What kind?
Green backpack
spicy stew
Which one or ones?
Last hamburger
Third hike
How many or how much?
Two flashlights
Many insects

4. Predicate Adjectives
A predicate adjective is an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the verb’s subject. The linking verb connects the predicate adjective with the subject.
Ex: A volcanic eruption is violent.
Ex: The lava looks very thick.

5. Proper Adjectives
A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun. Proper adjectives are always capitalized.
Proper Noun
Proper Adjective
China
Chinese food
Ireland
Irish cookies
Africa
African beads

6. Demonstrative Adjectives
The demonstrative adjectives this, that, these, and those, are the same as demonstrative pronouns but they are used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun. Ex: This apartment needs furniture. Ex: Can you pick up those shoes. Demonstrative adjective or pronoun? Those are my shoes on the table. Ask yourself is it modifying or describing a noun?

7. Comparison of Adjectives
The original form of the word is the positive form.
An adjective that compares one noun to another uses the comparative form.
An adjective that compares three or more nouns to another uses the superlative form.
Ex: Sean is tall. (Positive)
Ex: Sean is taller than Crystal.(Comparative)
Ex: Sean is the tallest in the class. (Superlative)

8. Comparison of Adjectives
# of syllables
Positive Form
Comparative Form
Superlative Form
1 syllable
Fast
Faster
Fastest
2 syllables
Active
More active
Most active
2 syllables ending with a –y.
Friendly
Friendlier
Friendliest
3 syllables or more
efficient
More efficient
Most efficient

9. Write the Comparative and Superlative Form
Adjective
Comparative
Superlative
Adequate
Loud
Narrow
Busy
Green
Sympathetic
Difficult
greedy