We are moving on to Adjectives
Adjectives, another part of speech, give us a great deal of terminology.
They modify or affect the meaning of nouns and pronouns and tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many about the nouns or pronouns they modify.
Adjectives generally come before the noun or pronoun they modify, but there are exceptions to that rule.
How and why they are different will be explained later. They still tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many.
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They modify or affect the meaning of nouns and pronouns and tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many about the nouns or pronouns they modify.
Adjectives generally come before the noun or pronoun they modify, but there are exceptions to that rule.
How and why they are different will be explained later. They still tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many.
There are seven (7) words in the English language that are always adjectives.
They are the articles a, an, and the and the possessives my, our, your, and their.
The possessives are from the possessive pronoun list but are always used with nouns as adjectives.
Being only seven in number, one should memorize them so they are immediately recognized as adjectives.
Examples: The neighbor girl likes chocolate ice cream. Mr. Johanson is tall, dark, and handsome.
The adjectives are highlighted in the following sentences.
1. The heavy, red dress of Queen Elizabeth weighed over fifty pounds.
[The, heavy, red, fifty.]
2. My sister chose two shirts for my graduation present.
[My, two, my, graduation]
3. That small Mexican restaurant in the next block serves fresh meals.
[That, small, Mexican, the, next, fresh]
4. The little black dog barked at the well-dressed stranger.
[The, little, black, the, well-dressed]
5. An old wood fence had caught several discarded candy wrap-For answers scroll dow
[An, old, wood, several, discarded, candy]And,
Other pronouns can also be used as adjectives, but they are not always adjectives as the seven mentioned above. They are the
1) Demonstrative pronouns, this, that, these, those; \
2) interrogative pronouns, whose, which, what; and
3) indefinite pronouns, another, any, both, each, either, many, neither, one, other, some; when used with a noun become adjectives.
4) Cardinal and ordinal numbers can be adjectives. E.g. ten students (cardinal), the tenth student (ordinal). [Pronouns used as adjectives are called pronominal adjectives.]
The adjectives are listed out in the sqaure brackets for these sentences.
1, Whose car is that red one in the driveway?
[Whose, that, red, the]
2. Those drapes go well with this brown carpet.
[Those, this, brown]
3. The two men were wondering what signal had brought many people to their rescue.
[The, two, what, many, their]
4. The third person entering the city park won another prize.
[The, third, the, city, another]
5. That tie is a good one for this suit.
[That, a, good, this]
The best way to write better using proper grammar is to
write out sentences out aloud (using the sound of your voice)
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