Grammar adjectives

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Grammar adjectives

Adjectives:

If the word describes a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence, it’s probably an adjective. They describe a noun or pronoun. Adjectives usually come right before the words they are describing, but sometimes they come after the words they describe.

Adjectives tell:
what kind

what something looks like, feels like, tastes like, smells like,

or sounds like (color, size, weight, texture, flavor or loudness)

ex. blue noisy huge soft sweet rough pale hungry tired

curly long greasy shiny red round tiny dull busy thin

which one

there are four adjectives that tell exactly which noun is being

talked about. (this, that, these, those)

how many

answers the question “how many?”( but not just with number

words)

ex. several all none either neither one another every any

some more thirteen each two both ten few no fifty

Adjectives are used to compare nouns, too!

To compare two nouns add –er to the basic adjective or add more to the basic adjective.

ex. My shirt is soft. But your shirt is softer.

My shirt is colorful but your shirt is more colorful.

To compare three or more nouns add –est to the basic adjective or add most to the basic adjective.

ex. Your shirt is softer than mine; but Tommy’s is softest.

Tommy’s shirt is the most colorful.

Adjectives are sometimes found in the predicate. They follow certain verbs like is or has (The hardest part about predicate adjectives is knowing which noun they are describing.)

ex. Her homework is easy. (The noun is homework, the

adjective is “easy”.)

Adjectives made from Nouns: Sometimes nouns are used like adjectives because they describe the noun they modify.(make more specific)

ex. horse race, baseball bat, belly button, monster movie,

diet pill, can opener, thumb nail, eye lash, TV show

Adjectives made from Hyphenated words: Hyphens are joiners; when two words are used to express a single idea or describe a single noun (they are used as compound modifiers) they are hyphenated. (You put a dash between the two words)

Hyphenated words are always used before the noun, not after the noun.

ex. Bluish-green eyes full-time job small-business loan itsy-bitsy spider

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