All You Ever Needed to Know about ' ' ' Adjectives

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All You Ever Needed to Know about . .
.Adjectives

• Take notes. . . there will be a quiz!

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Adjective

• Words that describe or modify a person or thing
  in a sentence.
• There are three different types!

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Limiting Adjectives

• Also known as determiners because they actually
  determine something.
• There are 6 different types!

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Articles

• a, an, and the
• EX The brown car is a piece of junk!

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Demonstratives

• this, that, those, these
• EX This song is better than all of those songs
  he sings.

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Numbers

• Any number used in a sentence
• EX There were three kittens next to the two
  dogs.

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Possessives

• his, her, their, our, its, your, yours, my
• EX His tire blew while his wife was driving.

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Possessive Nouns

• Occurs when nouns are used as adjectives.
• EX Toms guitar was stolen yesterday.

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Indefinites

• some, few, many, several, no, any, etc.
• EX Kelly ate some popcorn at several movies.

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NOTE

• Any of these determiners must appear before
  a noun or pronoun in order to function as an
  adjective!!!
• If any of these words stand alone, they
  function as pronouns!
• EX This cord is frayed. (adj.)
• This must be changed. (pronoun)

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Descriptive Adjectives

• These are adjectives that describe. They answer
  the question What kind?
• They usually come before the noun or pronoun.
• EX White swans swam on the blue lake.

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Predicate Adjectives

• These are adjectives that occur after a linking
  verb, and they always describe the subject of the
  sentence.
• EX The milk smells sour.