Adjectives
Mrs. Turner
English 7
What is an adjective?
Adjectives are words that modify, or
describe a noun or pronoun.
Adjectives answer the questions what
kind, which one, how many and how
much.
Examples:
The noisy children cheered for Santa
Claus.
What is the noun in this sentence?
Which word is describing the children?
Noisy tells you what kind of children.
Bob chewed pink bubble gum.
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
Pink and bubble describe what kind of
gum Bob chewed.
The girl ate two slices of pizza.
What is our adjective?
Two describes how many slices the girl
had.
Blast from the Past: of pizza is a
prepositional phrase.
The most commonly used adjectives are
the articles a, an and the.
These articles describe how many.
Example: The student went outside.
How many students went outside?
One
Many adjectives are formed from nouns.
Examples:
Child  childish
Beauty  beautiful
Music  musical
Asia  Asian
Spain  Spanish
What is an Adverb?
An adverb is a word that modifies
(describes) a verb, an adjective or
another adverb. In other words,
adverbs tell you more about a verb.
Example: Historians strongly
believe that the Chinese invented
rockets.
Strongly describes the verb believe.
Adverbs that modify Verbs
An adverb that modifies a verb will
answer one of the following
questions:
– Where?
– When?
– In What way?
– To what extent?
Examples
Where?
Travels everywhere
Went outside
When?
Arrived yesterday
Swims often
In What Way?
Works carefully
Chews noisily
To What Extent?
Hardly ate
Really surprised
Adverbs that modify Adjectives
An adverb that modifies an adjective
answers the question to what
extent?
How tall? Extremely tall
How hungry? Very hungry
Adverbs that modify other Adverbs
A sentence can have more than one
adverbs.
The purpose of one of the adverbs may be
to further explain the meaning of another
adverb.
Examples:
He moved very quickly.
The verb is move. How did he move?
Quickly. How quickly? Very quickly.
Others quite bravely explored the ocean.
Adverbs that modify adjectives or other
adverbs usually come directly before the
words they modify. They usually answer
the question to what extent.
– Marco Polo told really wonderful tales of
China.
Really modifies the adjective, wonderful.
– People were very eager to hear his
stories.
Very modifies the adjective, eager.
– They nearly always hung on every word.
Nearly modifies the adverb, always.
Adverbs can appear in different
positions in sentences.
– The tourists boarded the bus eagerly.
(after the verb)
– The tourists eagerly boarded the bus.
(before the verb)
– Eagerly, the tourists boarded the bus.
(at the beginning)
Adverbs can appear in different
positions in sentences.
– The tourists boarded the bus eagerly.
(after the verb)
– The tourists eagerly boarded the bus.
(before the verb)
– Eagerly, the tourists boarded the bus.
(at the beginning)