1. Adjectives and Adverbs
Grammar
Adjectives and Adverbs

2. An adjective is a word that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun.
Adjectives
An adjective is a word that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun.
It does this by telling what kind, which one, how many or how much.

3. Adjective chart cute dog seventh grade three tickets Spanish town
What Kind?
Which one (s)?
How many/much?
cute dog
seventh grade
three tickets
Spanish town
this book
full mug
funny movie
those people
all players
black shoes
any film
most work

4. Examples
Ex: A sparkly moon shone in the southern sky. Ex: The only sound was the loud crackle of the fire.

5. Adjective Word it modifies
Practice
Make a T-chart in your notes. Like this…
Adjective Word it modifies

6. Practice
Fill in the T-Chart using the sentences below. 1.) The forest was bright and quiet. 2.) The beautiful bird perched in the short, green tree. 3.) Many students travel to the local market.

7. Practice
Adjective Word it modifies bright quiet forest beautiful bird short green tree many students local market

8. The adjectives a, an, and the are articles.

9. adjectives: summer school, door frame
Nouns or adjectives?
Some words that can stand alone as nouns can also be used to describe nouns and pronouns.
Example:
nouns: summer, door
adjectives: summer school, door frame

10. Demonstrative adjectives
This, that, these, and those are used as adjectives and pronouns.
When they are used to describe a noun or pronoun, they are called demonstrative adjectives.

11. Common and proper adjectives
Common adjectives are generally not capitalized.
Proper adjectives are formed from a proper noun and are capitalized.
Examples:
Common Adjective: Did you see beautiful butterflies?
Proper Noun: The butterfly is found in Africa.
Proper Adjective: The African giant swallowtail is a large butterfly.

12. Exit ticket
Change the following proper nouns into proper adjectives. Then, write a sentence using each.
Italy
Hawaii
France
Hollywood
England
Japan

13. Exit ticket
Write a descriptive sentence about snow. Be sure to consider your five senses!