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1. WHAT IS AN ADJECTIVE?
An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies. What adjectives tell about the words they modify:
What kind: Blue sky, hot oven, small jar, old house
How many: Four bicycles, several cars, many people, few children, more letters Which one or ones: This book, that jet, these shoes, those passengers
2. PREDICATE ADJECTIVES
A predicative adjective is not part of the noun phrase headed by the noun it modifies; rather, it is the complement of a copulative function that links it to the noun. For example, The book is big. The predicative adjective big is linked by the verb is to the noun book, which it modifies
In some sentences, an adjective is separated from the word it modifies by the verb: The day is clear (Clear modifies day) Does the water look deep (deep modifies water The scout were tired and thirsty (tired and thirsty modify scouts)
A predicate adjective is an adjective in the predicate that modifies the subject.
My book
Your game
Her rules
Its foot
Their school
4. ADJECTIVES IN COMPARISONS
Adjectives have inflections. That is, adjectives change in spelling according to how they are used in a sentence. In a room there are three people. Bob is five feet seven inches tall. Tom is five feet six inches tall. Meg is five feet four inches tall. How do we use the word tall to show th differences among them? We may say, Meg is tall, Tom is taller than Meg, and Bob is the tallest of the three.
Adjectives
Old Small Shiny Big
Comparative
Older Smaller Shinier Bigger
Superlative
Oldest Smallest Shiniest Biggest
Adjectives
Beautiful Considerate
Comparative
More beautiful More considerate
Superlative
Most beautiful Most considerate
Good
Better
best
bad
worse
worst
5. DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES
The word this, that, these and these, and those may be used as modifiers with nouns or pronouns to point out specific things. For example:
I like this book, but I really didnt like that one
Demonstrative Adjectives
I like this book We saw that play
Demonstrative pronoun
I liked this. We saw that.
This skateboards
These skateboards
That club
Those clubs