Adjectives and Adverbs

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Adjectives and Adverbs

• American Lit

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Adjective and Adverbs

• Adjectives and adverbs are modifiers this means
  that they change the meaning of other words by
  adding description to them or making them more
  specific.
• The blustery wind billowed in from the cold,
  snowy, and eastern lake.

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Adjective

• Adjective word used to describe a noun or
  pronoun or to give a noun or pronoun a more
  specific meaning
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• Adjectives answer the following questions about
  nouns or pronouns
• What kind?
• Which one?
• How many?
• How much?

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Examples

• smelly socks (kind)
• that bottle (which)
• fourteen eggs (how many)
• less (how much)

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• Sometimes the adjective that modifies the noun or
  pronoun comes after the noun or pronoun.
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• EX He was sore after working out.
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• There can be more than one adjective used to
  modify a noun or pronoun
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• EX The moldy, smelly lunch was in the locker.

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Nouns used as Adjectives

• Nouns Used as Adjectives Occasionally words that
  are usually nouns will function as adjectives
  modifying another noun and answering what kind or
  which one
• EX beef patty, coffee mug

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Proper Adjectives

• Proper Adjectives proper nouns used as
  adjectives or adjectives formed from proper
  nouns. Modify other nouns and begin with a
  capital letter.
• EX Irish dancing, Christmas presents, Wisconsin
  cheese

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Compound Adjectives

• Compound Adjectives made up of more than one
  word. Can be hyphenated, separated, or combined
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• EX racetrack surface, White House lawn,
  long-term sickness

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Pronouns used as Adjectives

•  Some pronouns can be used as adjectives. Some
  pronouns (such as some personal pronouns) do
  double duty. They are pronouns because they have
  antecedents, and they are adjectives because they
  modify nouns by answering the questions which
  one.
• Pronouns become adjectives when they stand before
  a noun and answer the question which one.
• see chart on pg. 382

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Verb Forms used as Adjectives

• Verb Forms Used as Adjectives verb forms ending
  in ing or ed can be used as adjectives
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• EX The walking stick was grandpas.

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• REMEMBER
• Nouns, pronouns, and verbs are adjectives only
  when they modify nouns or pronouns
• This is different than ADVERBS. next up!

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Adverbs

• Adverb word that modifies a verb, adjective, or
  another adverb
• Adverbs that modify a verb answers any of four
  questions
• Where?
• When?
• In what way?
• To what extent?
• Adverbs that modify an adjective or another
  adverb ask the question
• To what extent?

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Examples

• The dolphin dove down. (Where)
• Now he will enter the race. (When)
• Sarah slowly jogged around the block. (In what
  way)
• We have just enough time to eat lunch. (To what
  extent)
• The dogs were very noisy. (To what extent
  modifying adj)
• Mark drove very carefully during his driving
  test. (To what extent modifying adv)

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• Nouns Functioning as Adverbs a few words that
  usually act as nouns can function as adverbs that
  answer the question where and when. Some words
  include home, yesterday, today, tomorrow,
  mornings, afternoons, evenings, week, and year.

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Adjective or Adverb???

• Remember that adverbs modify verbs, adjectives,
  and adverbs.
• Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns.