Adjectives
Adjective
• They modify nouns and pronouns.
• Modifiers make clearer or limit the meaning of other words.
• Types
• Descriptive adjectives.
• Determiners or limiting adjectives.
Adjective
• Order
1. Opinion
6. Color
cool
Blue
2. Size
7. Origin
Big
Mexican
3. Physical Quality
8. Material
Thin
Wooden
4. Shape
9. Type
Round
General-purpose
5. Age
10. Purpose
Old
Cleaning
Adjective
• Descriptive
• They specify the shape, size, or color of the noun they modify.
• Are often called common adjectives.
• They describe a noun in a general way.
• In general, common adjectives are placed before the noun
they are describing.
Adjectives
• Descriptive
• Orange ball
• Orange: adjective
• Ball: noun
Adjective
• Descriptive
• Predicate adjective
• An adjective can come after the linking verb “to be” when the
adjective describes the subject of a sentence.
Adjective
• Descriptive
• The hamburger is large:
• Hamburger: subject
• Is: linking verb
• Large: predicative adjective
Adjective
• Descriptive
• Proper noun: an adjective formed from a proper noun.
• It is always capitalized.
• Proper adjectives can be formed from the name of a particular
person, place, thing, or idea.
Adjective
• Descriptive
• Mexican student.
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Adjective
• Determiners
• Since determiners limit your choices, they are also called
limiting adjectives.
• A determiner is placed before the noun it modifies.
• A determiner helps to identify a specific noun rather than
describe it.
Adjective
• Determiners: articles
• They specify whether a noun is referred to in a general or
specific way.
• The most frequently used adjectives are ”a”, “an”, and ”the”.
These words are usually called articles.
• There are two different types of articles:
• Indefinite articles and definite articles.
Adjective
• Determiners: Possessive
• They are based on subject pronouns and show ownership or
relationship.
I
MY
YOU
YOUR
HE
HIS
SHE
HER
IT
ITS
WE
OUR
THEY
THEIR
Adjective
• Determiners: Demonstrative
• They point out persons or things.
SINGULAR
PLURAL
THIS
THESE
THAT
THOSE
Adjective
• Determiners: Interrogative
• They are used to form questions.
• They single out the nouns they modify.
• Which book?
• Whose air mattress?
• What life vest?
Adjectives
• Determiners: Indefinite
• They indicate nonspecific persons or things.
•
•
•
•
•
Some girls
Each boy
Any color
Many pencils
Several cookies
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Adjective
• Determiners: Numerical
• They indicate quantity by standing a fixed number of people
or things.
• One girl
• Three girls
Adjective
• Suffixes
• Suffixes are attached to a root word to form the adjective.
• These adjectives originate from other types of words, such as
nouns or verbs.
Adjectives
• Suffixes
• Jake is a fearless swimmer.
• Fear: Root word
• Less: without
• It was a wonderful party.
• Wonder: root word
• Ful: full of
• The glasses are breakable
• Break: root word
• Able: capable of