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Adding Details With Adjectives
Adding Details With Adjectives
Adding Details With Adjectives
Readers usually ask more to the writer – more color, more variety, more information – in short, more
specific details. Adjectives added to nouns, and adverbs added to verbs give the reader adding
Adjectives
An adjective makes a noun or pronoun specific or concrete by limiting and describing it.
Kinds of Adjectives
Possesive Pronouns and Possesive Nouns. The possesive form of the pronoun is called an
adjective because it describes and qualifies nouns: his book, my book. The reader knows
Numbers All numbers are adjectives. They modify and qualify the noun by telling how
many.
Descriptive Adjectives The adjectives above do not actually describe nouns. To give the
reader a mental picture of something, the writer chooses adjectives that describe the qualities
or characteristics of it.
Position of Adjectives
N adj adj
The woman`s answer was polite but guarded
These present participles are adjectives modifying the noun team . Notice that two of
them, laughing and shouting , follow the noun.
2. When a noun precedes another noun, the first noun is used as an adjectives to describe or limit
the second noun:
Adj N Adj N Adj N Adj N
canvas tent circus tent plastic cushions cotton candy
of application spesifies the kind of letters that Toshiro sent; therefore, the phrase is an adjective.
EXERCISE
EXERCISE
In the following 1E
sentences, brackets all the adjectives used and underlines once nouns described by
adjectives.
Example: Alex spent [an] [exciting] time at [the] [opening pro-football] game.
2. The turning point came for the home team during the last few minutes of the game.
3. Everyone praised the winning pass of the rookie quarterback and the clever tactics of the head
coach.
4. The excited fans roared as the place kicker sent the ball through the uprights of the goal post for
the extra point.
5. The wining team, laughing and shouting, ran off the football field.
6. As he left the sports stadium, Alex hoped that this game marked the beginning of an Oiler
winning streak.