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Name the adjectives
The document discusses the different types of adjectives in English including descriptive adjectives, articles, demonstrative adjectives, possessive adjectives, indefinite adjectives, numerical adjectives, proper adjectives, and adjectives of quantity. It provides examples of each type of adjective and explains how they are used to modify and describe nouns. The document also covers how adjectives are compared using comparative and superlative forms.
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- 2. Is a wordthat modifies(describe) a noun or pronoun. brown loud
- 3. Pedro is ahandsome boy. She is beautiful.
- 4. 1. Which one?(yellow, the, that) 2. What kind? (furry, plastic, special) 3. How many? (sixteen, several, many) 4. Whose? (Caroline's, his, its, John's)
- 6. It describes the qualities or characteristics of noun or pronoun.
- 7. A blue sky. A big house. A square table.
- 8. Limits orpoints out a noun. There are five kinds of them. Articles Demonstrative Possessive Indefinite Numerical adjectives
- 9. A An The “The”= definite article - it points out specific person, place, or thing. -can be used before both singular and plural nouns. Ex. The cat. The houses.
- 10. A &an = Indefinite articles. -they do not points out as specific people, places, or things. -can only be used before singular nouns. EX. a book an elephant “A game” consonant sound. “An ant” vowel sound.
- 11. Modify a nounor a pronoun. Show ownerships of a noun. Answer the question whose? Possessive pronouns such as my, her, his, your, its, our function as adjectives.
- 12. Examples: That ismy folder. Those are their bicycles.
- 13. Demonstrate orpoint out a noun . They are the same words as the demonstrative pronouns. there are four demonstratives: This That These Those Use this or that with singular nouns. Use these and those with plural nouns.
- 14. The sweatersare in that drawer. This boy is a member of the club. These filthy clothes need to be washed. Did you iron these shirts? Those boxes are full of junk. I always enjoy reading those books.
- 15. Tells us aboutthe quantity of the noun. They often tell “how many” or “how much” of something. There are seventeen of them: All, any, another, both, each, either, few, little, many, more, most, much, neither, one, other, several, some.
- 16. “Many ofmy friends have pets. The zoo has many animals. The pen has not much ink left.
- 17. They are wordsused to ask questions that indicate the noun that is being talked about. Three of them were also interrogative pronouns. Which What whose Example: Which bike is yours? “Which” describes the word
- 18. Proper adjectivesstart with capital letters just like proper nouns. In fact, proper adjectives are made from proper nouns. They normally answer the adjective question, What kind?
- 19. Proper noun America France China Japan Philippines Proper adjectives American French Chinese Japanese Filipino
- 20. I ama Filipino citizen. The German soldiers are brave. Most people like to wear American shoes.
- 21. Sometimes adjectivecomplete certain verb and some after the nouns w/c they modify. Examples: The man is happy. The girl looks beautiful. Some of the verbs that are often followed by adjectives are: is, am, are, was, were, fell, become, look, seem, grow.
- 22. Ex. Themonkeys were playing in their cages. Has anyone seen our children.
- 23. The sameword may be used as a noun or as an adjective according to its use in the sentence. Examples: 1.Leonia is a good girl. (adj.) The good is always rewarded. (noun) 2. He is a wise man. (adj.) A word to the wise is enough. (noun)
- 24. Before thenoun it modifies ( usually a single word modifies) Example: Blue arm chair Ten dozen After the noun it modifies ( usually a phrase or subordinate clause) Example: The girl in blue. The girl who is in the blue is the miss universe.
- 25. After alinking verb in a S-LV-C pattern. Example: The boys are noisy. Adjectives S LV C After a direct object in an S-TV-DO-OC pattern. Example: The followers called their leader a hero. s TV DO OC ADJECTIVES
- 27. Is themethod by which an adjective may be made to express a greater or a lesser degree of the same quality.
- 28. 1. Positive degree-stating the quality of one person, place, animal, or thing. 2. Comparative degree- comparing two persons, places, animals, or things. 3. Superlative degree- comparing three or more persons, places, animals, or things.
- 29. a. Adjectives havingone or two syllables from their comparative degrees by adding er to the positive degree and to form their superlative degrees by adding est to the positive degree. Example: Tall- taller- tallest Narrow- narrower- narrowest
- 30. b. Adjectives havingthree or more syllables from their comparative degree by prefixing more to show a greater degree of quality and less to show a lesser degree of quality . To form the superlative degree prefix most to show the greatest of quality and least to show the lowest degree of quality. Ex. Beautiful- more beautiful- most beautiful or less beautiful- least beautiful.
- 31. c. Some adjectivesfrom their comparatives and superlatives degree by changing the spelling. Example: Good- better- best Bad- worse- worst
- 32. d. Some adjectivesending in y form their comparative degrees by changing y to I and adding er; and to form their superlatives degrees by changing y to I and adding est. Example: Happy- happier- happiest Easy- easier- easiest
- 33. Positive Comparative Superlative ambitious more ambitious most ambitious cold colder coldest comfortable more Positive Comparative Superlative ambitious more ambitious most ambitious cold colder coldest comfortable more comfortable most comfortable comfortable most comfortable dry drier driest enchanting more enchanting most enchanting funny funnier funniest
- 34. Positive Comparative Superlative hot hotter hottest organized more organized most organized pretty prettier prettiest radiant more radiant most radiant sharp sharper sharpest
- 36. “OPSHACOM” 1.Opinion: lazy,good, bad, nice, fine, simple, modern, ordinary, extraordinary, etc. 2.Shape: round, square, rectangular, circle, triangle, 3. Age: new, novel, old, latest, aged, fresh, stale, musty, decayed, recent etc. 4.Colour: White, black, Red, Blue, Brown, Violet, Pink, Orange, Yellow.
- 37. 5. Origin: Indian.American, Gujarati, Australian, British, English, Spanish, etc. 6. Material: wooden, iron., metal, silver, golden, plastic, paper, liquid, rubber Examples: I have a nice square old brown Indian wooden table. She has a black and white T.V. ( adjectives of same type are joined by ‘and’)