Adjectives and Adverbs Whats the Use Imagine you

Adjectives and Adverbs

What’s the Use? • Imagine you and your friend have witnessed a robbery. Consider which one of you the police will find the most helpful…. • YOU: • “The thieves sped off in a car. ” • YOUR FRIEND: • “The two white males jumped in a green, battered, two-door car and sped off. ” • Adjectives information!

Adjectives • Definition: An adjective is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun or to give a noun or pronoun a more specific meaning. • Adjectives answer the question What kind? Which one? How many? or How much? about the nouns and pronouns they modify.

Examples What Kind? red house sick child silver jewelry cool water Which One? third chance this hat any piece those apples How Many? six flowers both answers several reasons few letters How Much? enough space no rain more energy little effort

Adjectives • An adjective usually comes before the word it modifies. • Example: – The sick child lay in bed. • It may, however, also come after the noun. • Example: – The child, sick with fever, lay in bed.

Exercise A – Answer these on a piece of paper and keep it in the grammar section of your binder. Directions: Write the underlined words in each sentence, followed by the noun or pronoun which they modify. 1. A strange creature crept out of the murky water. 2. A steady diet of any food will not provide sufficient nutrients. 3. The winner, weary but happy gave us a broad grin. 4. The big game was played on a raw, cold day. 5. A long drive lined with stately, old oaks lead to an old mansion.

Articles • Articles are specific types of adjectives. • There are two kinds of articles: – Definite & Indefinite • The definite article - the – refers to a specific person, place, or thing. • The indefinite articles - a and an – refer to any person, place, or things.

Indefinite Articles • When using an indefinite article, you must chose between a and an. – A is used before a consonant sound; – an is used before a vowel sound. Consonant Sound A baseball A history lesson A one-horse town Vowel Sound An apple An honest man An only child A union An hour ago

Exercise B – on the same sheet of paper you used earlier Directions: Write the article needed to complete each sentence, in the parenthesis it tells you whether you are looking to use a DEFINITE (def) or INDEFINITE (ind). 1. Joey studied hard for (def. ) exam. 2. Alison is (indef. ) one-woman band. 3. That book has (indef. ) unusual title. 4. Did you find (def. ) car keys? 5. Grandma always keeps (def. ) cookie jar full.

Nouns Used as Adjectives • On occasion, nouns can be used as adjectives. • A noun used an adjective answers the question What kind? or Which one? about the noun that follows it. • Examples: – I like guitar music. – The evening meal was delicious.

Proper Adjectives • Definition: A proper adjective is a proper noun used as an adjective or an adjective formed from a proper noun. Proper Nouns Alcott Chicago Proper Nouns Used as P. A. Alcott novel Chicago storm Formed from P. A. Jefferson Mexico Jeffersonian era Mexican art

Compound Adjectives • Definition: A compound adjective is an adjective that is made up of more than one word. Hyphenated far-off land hard-shell crab Combined farsighted leader hardhearted soul