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1. 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.

2. Examples:
 Serious judges
 Sleek jets
 Violet eyes,
 Tall
 Majestic oats

3. Assignment:
 Exercise 1 on Pg. 349.
(Even numbers only)

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Assignment
 Exercise 2 on Pg. 350

8. 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?

9. Nouns used as Adjectives
 Nouns: court,
morning
 Adjectives: a court
date, a morning
appointment

10. Assignment:
Pg. 351 Exercise 3.
(Odd Numbers ONLY)

11. 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.

12. Proper Nouns Used as
Proper Adjectives
 Arizona
 Tuesday
 Churchill
 Arizona desert (What
kind of desert?)
 Tuesday morning
(Which morning)
 Churchill memorial
(Which memorial?)

13.  Proper Nouns
 Elizabethan
 Boston
 Proper Adjectives
Formed from Proper
Nouns
 Elizabethan literature
(What kind of
literature)
 Bostonian
architecture (What
kind of architecture?)

14. Assignment:
Pg. 352 Exercise 4.

15. 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 adjectives are sometimes used as
adjectives. They are:
 Personal pronouns
 Demonstrative pronouns
 Interrogative pronouns
 Indefinite pronouns

16. 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?

17. Assignment:
Pg. 355 Exercise 7.

18. Demonstrative Adjectives
 The four demonstrative pronouns-this,
that these, and those– can be used as
demonstrative adjectives.
 Pronoun: I saw this.
 I’ll vote on this issue.

19. 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?

20. 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.

21. Assignment
Pages 356-357, Exercises 8-10.