Adjectives

What are Adjectives?

• Adjectives are modifiers. They modify nouns or
pronouns. This means they change the image of a
noun or pronoun.
• Adjectives can be located by asking the questions:
What kind?
Which one?
How many?
How much?
What are Adjectives?
Picture a car in your mind.
Do you have an
image in your head?
Now make it red.
What is an Adjective?
Now make it fast.
What is an Adjective?
Now make it old-fashioned.
What is an Adjective?
Now make it broken.
What is an Adjective?
Now make it green.
 What is an Adjective?
Adjectives change the meaning of a noun
by somehow changing the image of it.

That’s why they are called modifiers.

There are two kinds of adjectives:
descriptive
and
limiting.
 Descriptive Adjectives
• Descriptive adjectives
DESCRIBE!

• The add some sensory image to your sentence which allows the
reader to see, smell, hear, touch, or taste something in the
sentence.
• All of the modifiers in the earlier section of the slide show concerning
the car were descriptive adjectives. They made the car red, fast,
old-fashioned, broken, and green. Those words are all adjectives!

• Descriptive adjectives make writing much better!

 Proper Adjectives
• One type of descriptive adjective is called the
proper adjective.
• Proper adjectives are derived from, or come
from, proper nouns. This means that they
must always be capitalized.
• Proper adjectives sometimes are formed by
adding a suffix to the proper noun.
 Proper Adjectives
Examples of Proper Adjectives

Proper Noun Proper Adjective

America American
France French
China Chinese
Pennsylvania Pennsylvanian
 Proper Adjectives
Sometime proper nouns don’t change in form at all when they
become proper adjectives.
Ex. President Kennedy was a good leader. (In this sentence
President Kennedy is a person; therefore, he is a noun.)

Ex. The Kennedy Library is very large. (in this sentence Kennedy
is describing the library; therefore, it is an adjective.)
Identify the proper adjective used in the
following sentences.
Write the proper adjectives
correctly.
1.The archeologist uncovered an egyptian
mummy.
2. When we were at the market, we saw
beautiful indian rugs.
3. Some people love to eat cuban food
because it is so spicy.
WRITE A SENTENCE USING PROPER
ADJECTIVES
Re-write the proper adjectives correctly.

1.I would love to buy a piece of art

from the african art show this
weekend.
2.I like to eat french fries with my
hamburger.
Re-write the proper adjectives correctly.

3. I always make straight A’s in my

english class.
4. I love italian food especially
spaghetti
5. I love hawaiian dances.
 Limiting Adjectives
• Limiting adjectives point out nouns.
• There are five kinds of them:
Articles
Possessives
Demonstratives
Indefinites
Interrogatives
 Articles
There are three articles:
a
an
the
“The” is called a definite article because it points out nouns
more specifically.
“A” and “an” are called indefinite articles because they do
not point nouns out as specifically.
 Articles
“The” can be used before both singular and plural nouns.
Ex. the cat, the houses

“A” and “an” can only be used before singular nouns.

Ex. a book, an elephant
 Articles
“The” can be used before both vowels and consonants.
Ex. the ant, the car

“A” must be used before consonant sounds.

Ex. a duck, a fossil, a uniform

“An” must be used before a vowel sounds.

Ex. an umbrella, an excuse
 Possessive Adjectives
• Possessive adjectives show ownership of a noun.
• These words are the same as the possessive pronouns.
• There are fourteen possessive adjectives:
my, mine our, ours
your, yours your, yours
his, her, hers, its their, theirs
 Demonstrative Adjectives
• Demonstrative adjectives point out a noun.
• They are the same words as the demonstrative pronouns.
• There are four demonstratives:
this
that
these
those
 Indefinite Adjectives
• Indefinite adjectives point out nouns.
• They often tell “how many” or “how much” of something.
• There are seventeen of them:
all, any, another, both, each, either, few, little, many,
more, most, much, neither, one, other, several, some
 Interrogative Adjectives
• Interrogative adjectives are used to ask questions.
• Three of them were also interrogative pronouns:
which
what
whose
 Limiting Adjectives
• Many limiting adjectives have also been studied as
pronouns. How do you tell when they are pronouns and
when they are adjectives?
-If a word is a pronoun, it will be renaming a person,
place, or thing.
Ex. That is a pencil. (That is renaming the pencil;
therefore, it is a pronoun.)
-If a word is an adjective, it will be pointing out a noun.
Ex. That pencil is big. (That is pointing out a pencil,
and pencil is a noun; therefore, it is an adjective.)
 Location of Adjectives
Adjectives can be located in three places in a sentence.

1. The most common location is directly in front of the noun it is modifying.

Ex. the big dog, the new toy
2. Another location is after a linking verb or verb of condition. These are
called predicate adjectives.
Ex. The game was interesting.
3. The final location of adjectives occurs after a noun when it is set off by
commas.
Ex. The book, well-written and suspenseful, kept my interest.
 IDENTIFY THE ADJECTIVE IN
THE FF. SENTENCES

1. Mindanao experienced
series of terrifying incidents.
 IDENTIFY THE ADJECTIVE IN
THE FF. SENTENCES

2. Marawi bombing caused

great fear to many.
 IDENTIFY THE ADJECTIVE IN
THE FF. SENTENCES

3. The grasshopper in the

story is very lazy.
 IDENTIFY THE ADJECTIVE IN
THE FF. SENTENCES

4. The movie I watched was

incredibly hilarious.
 IDENTIFY THE ADJECTIVE IN
THE FF. SENTENCES

5. Kawayanan Festival was

celebrated with vibrant and
colorful parades.