This document provides information about using adjectives and adjective phrases to describe nouns. It explains that adjectives can be used before or after nouns to add meaning and clarity to sentences. Adjectives answer questions like what kind, which one, how many, or how much in relation to a noun. Examples are given of adjectives modifying different or the same nouns. Adjective phrases, which are groups of words that modify nouns, are also discussed. The document concludes by giving examples of prepositional phrases acting as adjective phrase modifiers.

1. Describing Persons,
Places, Or Objects Using
Adjectives And Adjective
Phrases

2. A sentence with only nouns or
pronouns and verbs would be very
short and dull.
Example: Children play.
However, to give color and clearer
meaning to a sentence, we use word
modifiers.
Example: Little children play.
Adjectives

3. To find an adjective, first
look for the noun or the
pronoun in the sentence.
Then, ask any of the following
questions about the sentence.

4. a. What kind is it?
b. Which one is it? ( or “Which
ones are they?”)
c. How many are they?
d. How much is there?
The word that will answer the
questions is an adjective.

5. Study the following examples:
•What kind? I like fresh flowers.
•Which one? Chelsea prefers the red
sweater to the blue one.
•How many? Twenty students joined the
contest.
•How much? My sister deserves much
affection for her kindness.

6. Adjectives can modify different
nouns or pronouns, or they can
modify the same noun or pronoun.
Examples:
•I saw three caps and a white
handkerchief on the table.
( adjectives modifying different
nouns)

7. Examples:
•She received three white roses from
her friend.
(adjectives modifying the same
noun)

8. Before a noun
•The old car needs to be painted.
•The ambitious man is a dreamer.
•The young boy recalls an
interesting story.

9. After a noun
•The dog, sad and wet, whined.
•Lisa found the crowd eager to
listen.
•Mr. Sy kept his life simple.

10. After a verb
•The house seems scary.
•The cookies smell awesome !
•The audience was wild .

11. A phrase modifier, also called an
adjective phrase, is a group of words
that modifies a noun or a pronoun. It
comes after the noun it modifies.
Examples:
•Mother prepared five glasses of juice.
•The bird with a broken wing fell to the
ground.
Adjective Phrases

12. Examples:
•I saw three caps and a white
handkerchief on the table.
•She received three white roses
from her friend.
Adjective Phrases

14. The color red phrase
modifiers, which are also called
prepositional phrases because
they are introduced by
prepositions, modify the
underlined nouns.
Adjective Phrases