ADJECTIVES
SONNET 18 OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
WHAT IS ADJECTIVE?
An ADJECTIVE is a word that
modifies a noun or a
pronoun by limiting its
meaning.
RULES ABOUT ADJECTIVES
 Possessive
pronouns, such as our and his, can be
considered as possessive adjectives because they
modify nouns in addition to their usual function as
pronoun.
For Example:
My dream
Our Goal
Her Dog
His Day
The
indefinite articles like a and an, and
the definite article the are also classified
as adjective.
A proper adjective is formed from a
proper noun and begins with a capital
letter. Using suffixes like – an , -ian, -n and
ish, -ese.
For example
China- Chinese, Canada – Canadian.
Adjective
follows a certain
order when used in a series.
ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
DETERMINER
QUALITY
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Size
a
large
Shape
Age
young
Origin
Material
Purpose/
use
Noun Modified
Monkeyeating
eagle
Color
Activity 1
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperature:
Rough winds do shake and darling buds of
May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometimes too hot the eye of heavens shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course,
untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Not lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and gives life to thee.
What was the Sonnet all
about ?
Activity 2