ADJECTIVES

Form 4Prepared by Ann Maria Edwards

April 4, 2012

What are adjectives?Descriptive words which add detail to a

sentence. They can give important or necessary information (e.g. Please hand me the blue paper), or they can just make the sentence more interesting or detailed (e.g. A frigid, icy, painfully cold wind blew around the town).

Facts about AdjectivesWhen this, that, these,

and those are followed by nouns, they are adjectives

Adjectives can tell the reader how much – or how many – of something you’re talking about, which thing you want passed to you, or which kind you want.

If you are using multiple adjectives which are commonly used together, there’s no need for a comma between the adjectives.

If the adjectives aren’t usually used together, separate them with a comma or conjunction.

Adjectives can usually be identified by asking what

eg. The girl is beautiful. What is the girl? She’s beautiful.

Forms of AdjectivesAttributive: precede or follow the noun they

modifyEg. Happy people; I saw three happy children.

Predicative: they are linked by the verb or other linking mechanism to the noun or pronoun they modify.

Eg. “They are happy" and in "that made me happy.“

Absolute: have a meaning that is generally not capable of being compared or intensified.

Eg. He’s dead.

Nominal: acts almost as nounsEg. "I read two books to them; he preferred the

sad book, but she preferred the happy”.

Post-positive: a form of attributive adjective that comes after the noun it modifies.

Eg. Tell me something interesting.

Substantive: used alone in the absence of the noun that it modifies.

Eg. The good, the bad and the ugly.

Describe

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Adjectives help one evoke certain emotions

and help one to visualize an object or

event being described.

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