Homework - Copy Grammar Log 4: Adjectives into your grammar notebook

GRAMMAR LOG #4

ADJECTIVE - modifies or makes a noun or pronoun more specific

ADJECTIVES -  help to create mental pictures or images that make our  language more interesting.  Shapes, colors,  sizes, numbers are common adjectives.

Ex. – The small children played at recess.

ADJECTIVES CAN ANSWER 3 QUESTIONS:

1. How many?
2. Which one?
3. What kind?

ADJECTIVES can be proper nouns used to describe (ex. Irish,

American,French)

The 3 ARTICLES – a, an, the – are always ADJECTIVES.

POSSESSIVE NOUNS & POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS are also used as

ADJECTIVES (ex. his book, their house, my class, Kali’s notebook)

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS are also used as ADJECTIVES (ex. this,

that, these, those)

PROPER ADJECTIVE -  is an ADJECTIVE formed from a proper noun – it must be capitalized (ex. the PROPER NOUN Spain forms the PROPER ADJECTIVE Spanish).

PARTICIPLE – a verb ending in “-ed” or “-ing” that are used as adjectives (ex. laughing – The laughing girl was having fun.

 (ex. collapsed – The collapsed bridge was closed.

Prepositional Phrases - may be used as adjectives.  (ex.  The bus around the corner waited for students.)

Superlatives - Adjectives compare in three forms:

Positive:                        Comparative:                        Superlative:

good                                better                                best

bad                                worse                                worst