Adjectives

1. 1. AdjectivesAdjectives Performance TaskPerformance Task

2. 2. What are Adjectives?What are Adjectives? Adjectives are modifiers. They modify
nouns or pronouns. This means they change the image of a noun or pronoun. Adjectives
can be located by asking the questions: What kind? Which one? How many? How much?
3. 3. What are Adjectives?What are Adjectives? Picture a car in your mind. Do you have an
image in your head? Now make it redred.
4. 4. What is an Adjective?What is an Adjective? Now make it fastfast.
5. 5. What is an Adjective?What is an Adjective? Now make it old-fashionedold-fashioned.
6. 6. What is an Adjective?What is an Adjective? Now make it brokenbroken.
7. 7. What is an Adjective?What is an Adjective? Now make it greengreen.
8. 8. An adjective describes a noun or a pronoun. An adjective answers: What kind? Which
one? How many? Example: happy dog tired boy seven girls
9. 9. To find an adjective you needTo find an adjective you need to locate the nouns first.to
locate the nouns first. Three happy children played at the park. The donkey stepped on
my large hat. The child was brave.
10. 10. Can you find the adjectives? We saw the gray elephant at the zoo. First find the
nouns Then ask, What word describes the elephant?
11. 11. Can you find the adjectives?Can you find the adjectives? The rabbit followed the
slow turtle. First find the nouns Then ask, What word describes the turtle?
12. 12. Can you find the adjectives?Can you find the adjectives? He found two pennies on
the ground. First find the nouns Then ask, What word describes the pennies?
13. 13. Can you find the adjectives?Can you find the adjectives? The children heard the loud
bell. First find the nouns Then ask, What word describes the bell?
14. 14. Can you find the adjectives?Can you find the adjectives? The brown dog growled at
the tall man. First find the nouns Then ask, What words describe the dog and the
man?
15. 15. Kinds of AdjectivesKinds of Adjectives

16. 16. Descriptive AdjectivesDescriptive Adjectives Descriptive adjectives DESCRIBE!

The add some sensory image to your sentence which allows the reader to see, smell, hear,
touch, or taste something in the sentence. All of the modifiers in the earlier section of
the slide show concerning the car were descriptive adjectives. They made the car red,
fast, old-fashioned, broken, and green. Those words are all adjectives!
17. 17. Proper AdjectivesProper Adjectives One type of descriptive adjective is called the
proper adjective. Proper adjectives are derived from, or come from, proper nouns. This
means that they must always be capitalized. Proper adjectives sometimes are formed by
adding a suffix to the proper noun.
18. 18. Proper AdjectivesProper Adjectives Examples of Proper Adjectives Proper Noun
Proper Adjective America American France French China Chinese Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanian
19. 19. Proper AdjectivesProper Adjectives Sometime proper nouns dont change in form at
all when they become proper adjectives. Ex. President Kennedy was a good leader. (In
this sentence President Kennedy is a person; therefore, he is a noun.) Ex. The Kennedy
Library is very large. (in this sentence Kennedy is describing the library; therefore, it is
an adjective.)
20. 20. Limiting Adjectives Limiting adjectives point out nouns. There are five kinds of
them: Articles Possessives Demonstratives Indefinites Interrogatives
21. 21. Articles There are three articles: a an the The is called a definite article because it
points out nouns more specifically. A and an are called indefinite articles because
they do not point nouns out as specifically.
22. 22. ArticlesArticles The can be used before both singular and plural nouns. Ex. the cat,
the houses A and an can only be used before singular nouns. Ex. a book, an elephant
23. 23. ArticlesArticles The can be used before both vowels and consonants. Ex. the ant,
the car A must be used before consonant sounds. Ex. a duck, a fossil, a uniform An
must be used before a vowel sounds. Ex. an umbrella, an excuse
24. 24. Possessive AdjectivesPossessive Adjectives Possessive adjectives show ownership
of a noun. These words are the same as the possessive pronouns. There are fourteen
possessive adjectives: my, mine our, ours your, yours your, yours his, her, hers, its their,
theirs
25. 25. Demonstrative AdjectivesDemonstrative Adjectives Demonstrative adjectives point
out a noun. They are the same words as the demonstrative pronouns. There are four
demonstratives: this that these those
26. 26. Indefinite AdjectivesIndefinite Adjectives Indefinite adjectives point out nouns.
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
27. 27. Interrogative AdjectivesInterrogative Adjectives Interrogative adjectives are used to
ask questions. Three of them were also interrogative pronouns: which what whose
28. 28. Limiting AdjectivesLimiting Adjectives Many limiting adjectives have also been
studied as pronouns. How do you tell when they are pronouns and when they are
adjectives? -If a word is a pronoun, it will be renaming a person, place, or thing. Ex. That
is a pencil. (That is renaming the pencil; therefore, it is a pronoun.) -If a word is an
adjective, it will be pointing out a noun. Ex. That pencil is big. (That is pointing out a
pencil, and pencil is a noun; therefore, it is an adjective.)
29. 29. Location of AdjectivesLocation of Adjectives Adjectives can be located in three
places in a sentence. 1. The most common location is directly in front of the noun it is
modifying. Ex. the big dog, the new toy 1. Another location is after a linking verb or verb
of condition. These are called predicate adjectives. Ex. The game was interesting. 3. The
final location of adjectives occurs after a noun when it is set off by commas. Ex. The
book, well-written and suspenseful, kept my interest.