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Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives and Adverbs. spices of life sprinkles on the vanilla cone accessories of fashion flowers and shrubs bells and whistles. Adjectives. Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns Adjectives answer: What kind? Warm afternoon Which one? This beach How many? Several sea gulls How much?

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Adjectives and Adverbs

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  1. Adjectives and Adverbs • spices of life • sprinkles on the vanilla cone • accessories of fashion • flowers and shrubs • bells and whistles

  2. Adjectives • Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns • Adjectives answer: • What kind? • Warm afternoon • Which one? • This beach • How many? • Several sea gulls • How much? • No clouds

  3. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns • Colorful design • Bright colors • Blaring music • Muddy cleats • Starry night • Glowing candle • She sounds excited. • They feel energized. • Everyone seems happy. • This is awesome.

  4. Location May come before or after the noun: The red and green crayons The crayons, red and green, May follow a linking verb The crayons are red and green. Using Articles The (definite article) A, An (indefinite article) Use A before a consonant sound (a crayon) Use AN before a vowel sound (an orange) More about Adjectives

  5. Kinds of Adjectives • Nouns used as adjectives • Dance studio • Proper adjectives • Broadway show • Compound adjectives • Lifetime performance • Pronouns used as adjectives • My hero • Demonstrative adjectives • These actors • Interrogative adjectives • Which stage

  6. Kinds of Adjectives

  7. Modify verbs Most end in -ly Answer questions Where? ..sparkle nearby When? …sparkle daily In what way?..sparkle brightly To what extent?..really sparkle Modify adjectives To what extent? Very bright fireworks Modify other adverbs To what extent? Sparkle very brightly Adverbs

  8. Adverbs known as intensifiers: • Very • Hardly • Barely • Scarcely • Hardly • Really • Pretty • Almost • Only • Too • So • Rather • Extremely

  9. Adjective or Adverb? • Some fruit trees bloom earlier than others. • Usually, the blossoms do not last long. • Sharing the fruit from one’s trees is a neighborly gesture. • In autumn, it seems that the leaves of our oak tree fall last. • Squirrels act fast to collect and store acorns. • The Japanese maple is slow to shed its leaves. • Its branches spread wide, shading a large area. • Another tree with wide branches is the elm. • The long branches of the willow tree dip close to the water. • The seeds of many trees are carried far away by winds.

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