Adjectives Makes the Meaning of Nouns Much Clearer

Adjectives Makes the Meaning of Nouns Much Clearer

Adjective Types What Kind Which One How Much/ How Many

Restaurant • What Kind • Chinese • Which One this • How Much or How Many • several • The Lilac Garden is having it’s grand opening this weekend. This Chinese restaurant is family-owned with several East Valley locations ready to serve you!

Adjectives: Descriptors • Describe • Blue corn chips • light whipped texture • Green enchilada sauce • capable staff • Incredible taste • Delicious ice cream topping • What kind • Color, type • (Words that end in the suffix)

Where can you find the adjectives? • Before the noun • Expensive silverware graced the cheerful table for the special event. • After the noun • A pizza, cheesy and delicious, was pictured on the menu cover.

Some Adjectives Set Limits Which One How Much/How Many Limiting Adjectives

Limiting Adjectives Which One How Much/How many Articles: A, an, the Indefinites: Some, few, many, several, no, any Demonstratives: this, Numbers: One , Seven That, those, these Possessive: his, her, their, our , it’s, your, my Possessive Noun: Joe’s Sports Grill

How does these adjectives do their job? • To be a limiting adjective they MUST appear before a noun • This burrito is prepared from the finest ingredients!(Yes, the adjective is doing its job!) • Here there is no adjective present can you tell why? • This must be prepared before the customer arrives. Here the word this is used as a ______.

Putting it all together! • His order is complete, sir. Now have that chef with the moustache prepare the meal, please. • His isn’t the only restaurant of its kind that was featured on the cooking show. Many Mexican restaurant chefs were interviewed for this exclusive program. Ours received the most publicity. • Bold-adjectives Italics-not used as a limiting adjective

Proper nouns and proper adjectives • Proper adjectives are descriptive words derived from proper nouns. Since proper nouns are capitalized, we also capitalize proper adjectives. • Proper Noun • Switzerland • Mexico • China • Proper Adjectives Swiss cheese Mexican culture Chinese noodles

Sometimes the spelling doesn’t change • Sometimes the proper adjective spelling of a word is the same spelling as the proper noun it is related to! • Phoenix police • Edison inventions • Zenith television • San Francisco trolley • Fisher Price baby toy • Mickey Mouse hat • *Check your dictionary for correct proper adjective forms when you are not sure.

Your Turn to Add the Adjectives See p. 446 in Elements of Writing for help Noun pizza salad ice cream pasta What Kind Which One How Much or How Many

Adjectives Review • Words used to modify (describe) a_____ • These are words usually added in _____ of nouns or pronouns to better ______ what the nouns are like. • Think of ____ as words used to customize what you want to say!

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MENU EVALUATION Completed by peer : Your Name________________ Class Period_______ Restaurant Name _________________ Item Points • Successful completion of all required items • • • 5 4 3 2 1 Adjective usage (underline or highlight adjectives) 5 4 3 2 1 Neatness 5 4 3 2 1 Creativity 5 4 3 2 1 Spelling, grammar, and punctuation 5 4 3 2 1 • •