Adjectives & Types

What are Adjectives?
Picture a car in your mind.

Do you have an
image in your head?
Now make it red.
What is an Adjective?
Now make it fast.
Now make it old-fashioned.
Now make it broken.
Now make it green.
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?
• WHAT KIND?
• new car striped tie
• red skirt warm pie
• WHICH ONE?
• this butterfly any piece
• every page first time
• HOW MANY?
• one hamburger six flowers
• many cucumbers few people
• HOW MUCH?
• enough space more time
• little rain no food
Adjectives change the meaning of a noun
by somehow changing the image of it.
That’s why they are called modifiers.
There are two kinds of adjectives:

descriptive
and
limiting.
Descriptive Adjectives
DESCRIBE!
• They 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!
• Descriptive adjectives make writing much
better!
Descriptive Adjectives
• Example:
• - He is a tall man.
• - They are good students.
• - She is a beautiful girl.
Proper 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.
Proper Adjectives
Examples of Proper Adjectives
Proper Noun Proper Adjective

America American
France French
China Chinese
Pennsylvania Pennsylvanian
Proper Adjectives
Sometime proper nouns don’t 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.)
Limiting Adjectives
• Limiting adjectives point out nouns.
• There are five kinds of them:
Articles
Possessives
Demonstratives
Numeral
Interrogatives
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.
Articles
“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
Articles
“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
Possessive Adjectives
• Possessive adjectives show ownership of
a noun.
• There are fourteen possessive adjectives:
my, mine our, ours
your, yours your, yours
his, her, hers, its their, theirs
• Example:
• - This is my book.
• - Your car is outside.
• - His friend is waiting.
Demonstrative Adjectives
• Demonstrative adjectives point out a noun.
They are this, these, that, and those.
• Example:
• - That man is very handsome.
• - These girls are good-looking.
Numeral Adjectives
• Numeral Adjective is the adjective which is
used to show the number of noun. There
are three types of Numeral Adjective as
follow.
• a) Definite Numeral Adjective
• b) Indefinite Numeral Adjective
• c) Distributive Numeral Adjective
a. Definite Numeral Adjectives
• Definitive Numeral Adjective is the
adjective that is used to denote an exact
number of noun as first, second, third or
one, two, three….
• Example:
• - Ankor Wat is the seventh wonders of the
world.
• - Ankor temple has got five towers.
b. Indefinite Numeral Adjectives
• Indefinite Numeral Adjective is the
adjective which is used to denote an
inexact number of nouns as some, any,
much, many, little, a few….
• Example:
• - I have some friends here.
• - She has a few pictures.
• - He has got much money.
c. Distributive Numeral Adjectives
• Descriptive Adjective is the adjective that
is used to cache one noun. They
are every, each, another, other...
• Example:
• - Each student is very friendly.
• - They speak to another person.
Interrogative Adjectives
• Interrogative adjectives are used to ask
questions.
• Three of them were also interrogative
pronouns:
which, what, whose…
Example:
• - Which animal do you like?
• - Where doctor is he?
• - What food do you prefer?
Limiting 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.)
Location 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
2. 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.
• Prepare sentences having more
than one adjectives on the pictures
shown below.
Directions: In the first blank, write the
adjectives; in the second blank,write the noun
or pronoun it modifies. Do not use articles.
Adjective Word modified
_____ _____ 1. The spoiled cheese has turned green.
_____ _____
_____ _____ 2. He just concluded a whirlwind tour of
America.
_____ _____ 3. Your English class meets after lunch.
_____ _____
_____ _____ 4. Look at those cobwebs in the corner.
_____ _____5. Several spiders scurried along a hanging
branch. _____ _____
_____ _____ 6. He wore a steel helmet along with these
gloves.
_____ _____
_____ _____ 7. I called Tom's phone but couldn't find
him.
_____ _____ 8. Do you know whose boots they are?
_____ _____ 9. Following the basketball game, we went
home.
_____ _____10. You went to see a John Wayne movie
at what theater?
_____ _____

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What are Adjectives?

Picture a car in your mind.

• Adjectives can be located by asking the

That’s why they are called modifiers.

There are two kinds of adjectives:

Proper Noun Proper Adjective

Ex. The Kennedy Library is very large. (in this

“A” and “an” can only be used before

“A” must be used before consonant sounds.

“An” must be used before a vowel sounds.

1. The most common location is directly in front of the

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