Adjectives

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Adjectives

• Adjectives add description and other kinds of
  information to two other parts of speech.

• Definition An adjective is used to describe a
  noun or a pronoun.

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Examples

• Serious judges
• Sleek jets
• Violet eyes,
• Tall
• Majestic oats

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Assignment

• Exercise 1 on Pg. 349.
• (Even numbers only)

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Articles

• Three commonly used adjectives are called
  articles--- the, a, and an.
• These three words are adjectives because they
  come before nouns and answer the question Which
  one?
• Because of the way it modifies nouns, the is
  called the definite article.

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Articles

• The, the definite articles, refer to a specific
  person, place, or thing.
• Examples
• The court
• The attorney
• The broken law

• A or an, the indefinite articles, refer to any
  one of a class of people, places, or things.
• Examples
• A court
• An attorney
• A broken law

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A or An??

• A is used before consonant sounds.

• An is used before vowel sounds.
• Hint the letter H a consonant, may be sounds
  like either a consonant or a vowel. O and u are
  vowels, but they may sometimes sound like
  consonants.

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Assignment

• Exercise 2 on Pg. 350

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Nouns are sometimes used as adjectives. When a
noun is used as an adjective, it comes before
another noun and answer the questions What kind?
or which one?
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Nouns used as Adjectives

• Nouns court, morning

• Adjectives a court date, a morning appointment

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Assignment

• Pg. 351 Exercise 3.
• (Odd Numbers ONLY)

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Proper Adjective

• A proper adjective can be a proper noun used as
  an adjective.

• A proper adjective can also be a an adjective
  formed from a proper noun.

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Proper Nouns Used as Proper Adjectives

• Arizona
• Tuesday
• Churchill

• Arizona desert (What kind of desert?)
• Tuesday morning (Which morning)
• Churchill memorial (Which memorial?)

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• Proper Nouns
• Elizabethan
• Boston

• Proper Adjectives Formed from Proper Nouns
• Elizabethan literature (What kind of literature)
• Bostonian architecture (What kind of
  architecture?)

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Assignment

• Pg. 352 Exercise 4.

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Pronouns Used as Adjectives

• Pronouns, like nouns, can sometimes be used as
  adjectives.
• A pronoun is used as an adjective if it modifies
  a noun.
• Four kinds of pronouns are sometimes used as
  adjectives. They are
• Personal pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns
• Indefinite pronouns

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Possessive Adjectives

• Examples my, your, his, her, its, our, and their
• Because they have antecedents, they are
  considered to be pronouns.
• They are also adjectives, because they answer the
  question which one?

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Assignment

• Pg. 355 Exercise 7.

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Demonstrative Adjectives

• The four demonstrative pronouns-this, that,
  these, and those can be used as demonstrative
  adjectives.
• Pronoun I saw this.
• Adjective Ill vote on this issue.

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Interrogative Adjectives

• The three interrogative pronouns which, what,
  and whose can be used as interrogative
  adjectives.
• Pronoun What did he want?
• Adjective What sentence did he give?

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Indefinite Adjectives

• A number of indefinite pronouns-- both, few,
  many, each, most, and all, among others can also
  be used as indefinite adjectives.
• Pronoun I bought one of each.
• Adjective Each judge writes an opinion.

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Assignment

• Pages 356-357, Exercises 8-10.