Adjectives

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Adjectives

• Grade Seven

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What are Adjectives?

• Adjectives are modifiers. They modify nouns or
  pronouns. This means they change the image of a
  noun or pronoun.
• Adjectives can be located by asking the
  questions
• What kind?
• Which one?
• How many?
• How much?

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What are Adjectives?

• Picture a car in your mind.
• Do you have an
• image in your head?
• Now make it red.

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What is an Adjective?

• Now make it fast.

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What is an Adjective?

• Now make it old-fashioned.

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What is an Adjective?

• Now make it broken.

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What is an Adjective?

• Now make it green.

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What is an Adjective?

• Adjectives change the meaning of a noun
• by somehow changing the image of it.
• Thats why they are called modifiers.
• There are two kinds of adjectives
• descriptive
• and
• limiting.

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Descriptive Adjectives

• Descriptive adjectives
• DESCRIBE!
• The add some sensory image to your sentence which
  allows the reader to see, smell, hear, touch, or
  taste something in the sentence.
• All of the modifiers in the earlier section of
  the slide show concerning the car were
  descriptive adjectives. They made the car red,
  fast, old-fashioned, broken, and green. Those
  words are all adjectives!
• Descriptive adjectives make writing much better!

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Proper Adjectives

• One type of descriptive adjective is called the
  proper adjective.
• Proper adjectives are derived from, or come from,
  proper nouns. This means that they must always
  be capitalized.
• Proper adjectives sometimes are formed by adding
  a suffix to the proper noun.

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Proper Adjectives

• Examples of Proper Adjectives
• Proper Noun Proper Adjective
• America American
• France French
• China Chinese
• Pennsylvania Pennsylvanian

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Proper Adjectives

• Sometime proper nouns dont change in form at all
  when they become proper adjectives.
• Ex. President Kennedy was a good leader. (In
  this sentence President Kennedy is a person
  therefore, he is a noun.)
• Ex. The Kennedy Library is very large. (in this
  sentence Kennedy is describing the library
  therefore, it is an adjective.)

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Limiting Adjectives

• Limiting adjectives point out nouns.
• There are five kinds of them
• Articles
• Possessives
• Demonstratives
• Indefinites
• Interrogatives

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Articles

• There are three articles
• a
• an
• the
• The is called a definite article because it
  points out nouns more specifically.
• A and an are called indefinite articles
  because they do not point nouns out as
  specifically.

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Articles

• The can be used before both singular and plural
  nouns.
• Ex. the cat, the houses
• A and an can only be used before singular
  nouns.
• Ex. a book, an elephant

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Articles

• The can be used before both vowels and
  consonants.
• Ex. the ant, the car
• A must be used before consonant sounds.
• Ex. a duck, a fossil, a uniform
• An must be used before a vowel sounds.
• Ex. an umbrella, an excuse

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Possessive Adjectives

• Possessive adjectives show ownership of a noun.
• These words are the same as the possessive
  pronouns.
• There are fourteen possessive adjectives
• my, mine our, ours
• your, yours your, yours
• his, her, hers, its their, theirs

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Demonstrative Adjectives

• Demonstrative adjectives point out a noun.
• They are the same words as the demonstrative
  pronouns.
• There are four demonstratives
• this
• that
• these
• those

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Indefinite Adjectives

• Indefinite adjectives point out nouns.
• They often tell how many or how much of
  something.
• There are seventeen of them
• all, any, another, both, each, either, few,
  little, many, more, most, much, neither, one,
  other, several, some

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Interrogative Adjectives

• Interrogative adjectives are used to ask
  questions.
• Three of them were also interrogative pronouns
• which
• what
• whose

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Limiting Adjectives

• Many limiting adjectives have also been studied
  as pronouns. How do you tell when they are
  pronouns and when they are adjectives?
• -If a word is a pronoun, it will be renaming
  a person, place, or thing.
• Ex. That is a pencil. (That is renaming the
  pencil therefore, it is a pronoun.)
• -If a word is an adjective, it will be pointing
  out a noun.
• Ex. That pencil is big. (That is pointing out
  a pencil, and pencil is a noun therefore, it is
  an adjective.)

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Location of Adjectives

• Adjectives can be located in three places in a
  sentence.
• The most common location is directly in front of
  the noun it is modifying.
• Ex. the big dog, the new toy
• Another location is after a linking verb or verb
  of condition. These are called predicate
  adjectives.
• Ex. The game was interesting.
• 3. The final location of adjectives occurs after
  a noun when it is set off by commas.
• Ex. The book, well-written and suspenseful, kept
  my interest.