ADJECTIVES

►An adjective describes a person,

place, thing, or idea. An adjective

provides information about the

size, shape, color, texture, feeling,

sound, smell, number, or condition

of a noun or a pronoun.

►To put it simply, an adjective tells

what kind, which one, or how many

about a noun or a pronoun.

Find the adjectives in

the following sentence.

For now, we will not choose articles,

possessives or demonstrative adjectives

(this, that, these, or those) as adjectives.

• Many groups of visitors admire

the huge new building.

Definition

• An adjective is a word that

modifies, or describes, a noun

or a pronoun.

Where will I find

adjectives?

• Most adjectives come before

the nouns they modify.

• Sometimes adjectives follow

linking verbs and modify the

noun or pronoun that is the

subject of the sentence.

Some architects are skillful and creative.

• In the sentence above, the

adjectives skillful and creative

follow the linking verb are and

modify the subject, architects.

They are called predicate

adjectives.

Definition

• A predicate adjective is an

adjective that follows a linking

verb and modifies the subject of

the sentence.

Forms of Verbs as

Adjectives

• Forms of verbs are often used

as adjectives and predicate

adjectives.

• These verb forms will end in

-ed (past participle) or

-ing (present participle).

Find the participles in

the following

sentences.

• The architect created a surprising design.

• The building is decorated.

Now let’s practice…

Find the adjectives in the

following sentences.

• Good architects often have an artistic

background.

• They arrange many different materials into

beautiful shapes.

• Reliable architects have studied

engineering.

…just a few more.

• The baby boy got sticky, green candy on his

sister’s new dress.

• Four students read silently while their

lovely English teacher smiled happily.

• The worried mother searched for her tiny

daughter in the shopping mall.

• Noisy fireworks are one way celebrate

many different holidays.

Now you try it!

• Turn in your workbook to

page 117.

• Follow the instructions

given in the workbook.

• Remember, we are not

marking articles,

possessives, or

demonstrative adjectives.

Adjectives: Part 2

• The words a, an, and the make

up a special group of adjectives

called ARTICLES.

• PROPER ADJECTIVES are

formed from proper nouns and

always begin with a capital

letter.

Ex. Irish, American, Italian

Comparative and

Superlative Adjectives

• Adjectives can compare two or

more nouns or pronouns.

• The COMPARATIVE form of an

adjective compares two things

or people.

• The SUPERLATIVE form of an

adjective compares three or

more things or people.

Comparative and

Superlative Adjectives

• For most one-syllable and some two-

syllable adjectives, -er and –est are

added to form the comparative and

superlative. Two syllable words

ending in y usually follow this rule.

Ex. Happier, floppier, droopiest

• For many two and three-syllable

words the comparative and

superlative are formed by adding

more and most before the adjective.

Demonstratives

• This, that, these, and those are

called DEMONSTRATIVES.

• When these words describe

nouns, they are demonstrative

adjectives.

• When they take the place of

nouns, they are demonstrative

pronouns.

• The words here and there should not

be used with demonstrative

adjectives. The words this, that,

these, and those already point out

here or there.

Ex. This ancient rattle is called a

sistrum. (not This here ancient

rattle; never this here, that there,

these here, or those there)

• The object pronoun them should not

be used in place of the

demonstrative adjective those.

Ex. Those finger cymbals are the

smallest cymbals. (not Them finger

cymbals)