Adjectives and Adverbs

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Adjectives and Adverbs

• spices of life
• sprinkles on the vanilla cone
• accessories of fashion
• flowers and shrubs
• bells and whistles

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Adjectives

• Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns
• Adjectives answer
• What kind?
• Warm afternoon
• Which one?
• This beach
• How many?
• Several sea gulls
• How much?
• No clouds

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Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns

• Colorful design
• Bright colors
• Blaring music
• Muddy cleats
• Starry night
• Glowing candle
• She sounds excited.
• They feel energized.
• Everyone seems happy.
• This is awesome.

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More about Adjectives

• Location
• May come before or after the noun
• The red and green crayons
• The crayons, red and green,
• May follow a linking verb
• The crayons are red and green.
  
  

• Using Articles
• The (definite article)
• A, An (indefinite article)
• Use A before a consonant sound (a crayon)
• Use AN before a vowel sound (an orange)
  

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Kinds of Adjectives

• Nouns used as adjectives
• Dance studio
• Proper adjectives
• Broadway show
• Compound adjectives
• Lifetime performance
• Pronouns used as adjectives
• My hero
• Demonstrative adjectives
• These actors
• Interrogative adjectives
• Which stage

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Kinds of Adjectives
Articles Possessive Demonstrative Interrogative
a my this whose
an your that what
the his these which
her those
its
our, their
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Adverbs

• Modify verbs
• Most end in -ly
• Answer questions
• Where? ..sparkle nearby
• When? sparkle daily
• In what way?..sparkle brightly
• To what extent?..really sparkle

• Modify adjectives
• To what extent?
• Very bright fireworks
• Modify other adverbs
• To what extent?
• Sparkle very brightly

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Adverbs known as intensifiers

• Very
• Hardly
• Barely
• Scarcely
• Hardly
• Really
• Pretty
• Almost
• Only
• Too
• So
• Rather
• Extremely

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Adjective or Adverb?

• Some fruit trees bloom earlier than others.
• Usually, the blossoms do not last long.
• Sharing the fruit from ones trees is a
  neighborly gesture.
• In autumn, it seems that the leaves of our oak
  tree fall last.
• Squirrels act fast to collect and store acorns.
• The Japanese maple is slow to shed its leaves.
• Its branches spread wide, shading a large area.
• Another tree with wide branches is the elm.
• The long branches of the willow tree dip close to
  the water.
• The seeds of many trees are carried far away by
  winds.