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ADJECTIVES

Form 4 Prepared by Ann Maria Edwards April 4, 2012. ADJECTIVES. What are adjectives?.

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ADJECTIVES

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  1. Form 4 Prepared by Ann Maria Edwards April 4, 2012 ADJECTIVES

  2. 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).

  3. Facts about Adjectives • When 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Forms of Adjectives • Attributive: precede or follow the noun they modify Eg. 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.

  6. Nominal: acts almost as nouns Eg. "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.

  7. Describe

  8. Compare

  9. Adjectives help one evoke certain emotions and help one to visualize an object or event being described.

  10. Useful links • http://languageartsgames.4you4free.com/adjectives_adverbs.html • http://www.ezschool.com/Games/index.html • http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactive-educational-movies/free-online-movies.php?movie=Adjectives • http://www.eslpartyland.com/nouns-adjectives-verbal-usage

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