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• Adjectives


  Describes a noun and pronouns, a describing word, commonly precedes a noun (before the noun)
• An adverb describes a verb
• Types of Adjectives

  • Attributive
  • Predicative
  • Nominal
• Attributive Adjectives


  • Part of the noun phrase, precedes a noun they modify
• Predicative Adjectives


  • Linked via copula (linking verbs), the noun precedes the adjective
• Nominal Adjectives


  • Acts almost as a noun, performs the function of a noun in a sentence
• Kinds of Adjectives

  • Articles and Other Determiners
  • Descriptive Adjectives
  • Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Nouns
  • Noun Modifiers
  • Nominal Adjectives
  • Predicative Adjectives
• Articles and Other Determiners


  Includes a, an, the, some, that, this, these, those
• Descriptive Adjectives


  Gives the reader/listener a mental picture of something
• Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Nouns


  Describe and qualify nouns
• Noun Modifiers


  A noun can modify another
• Comparatives and Superlatives


  • Positive
  • Comparative
  • Superlative