English

1. Adjectives

2. 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. What are Adjectives?
Picture a car in your mind.

4. What is an Adjective?

5. What is an Adjective?

6. What is an Adjective?

7. What is an Adjective?
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
proper

8. Descriptive 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!
• Descriptive adjectives make writing much better!

9. 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.

10. Proper Adjectives
Examples of Proper Adjectives
Proper Noun Proper Adjective
America American
France French
China Chinese
Pennsylvania Pennsylvanian

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. Possessive 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

15. Demonstrative Adjectives
• Demonstrative adjectives point out a noun.
• They are the same words as the
demonstrative pronouns.
• There are four demonstratives:
this
that
these
those