Adjectives.

They modify nouns and pronouns.

Descriptive Adjectives

Descriptive adjectives specify the shape, size, or color of the noun they modify. Descriptive adjectives are often called common adjectives. Like a common noun, they are ordinary, everyday adjectives. They describe a noun in a general way. Examples of common adjectives include soft, blue, sunny, small, and wet. In general, common adjectives are placed before the noun they are describing, as the following examples illustrate. Examples: blue ball Descriptive Adjective Noun

An adjective can also come after the linking verb to be when the adjective describes the subject of a sentence. In this case, it is called a predicate adjective. Example: the hamburger is large

In this example, the adjective large describes the subject hamburger. Calling it a large hamburger is the same as stating The hamburger is large. Note: Predicate adjectives are placed after the linking verb. They always expand on the subject.

Subject Linking Verb Predicate Adjective

An adjective formed from a proper noun is called a proper adjective. It is always capitalized

Proper Noun Mexico America Proper Adjective Mexican American Example Mexican student American flag Note: Proper adjectives can be formed from the name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea.

Possessive Adjectives

I, you, he, she, it, we, you, and they are called personal pronouns. In this term, the word personal relates to persons. Possessive adjectives, as the following chart shows, are derived from these personal pronouns and express the idea of possession. With the exception of it, all of them relate to people. Possessive Adjectives Singular: my, your, his, her, its Plural: our, your, their Examples: Lakewood is our pool. The possessive adjective can express ownership or relationship. In English, the possessive adjectives his and her relate to the person who is the possessor

Demonstrative Adjectives

or plural forms. Examples: this suntan lotion

Demonstrative adjectives point out persons or things. They can point to either singular

Singular Form Demonstrative Adjective Singular Noun Note: This and that are singular; these and those are plural. They are all demonstrative adjectives that point

out specific nouns.

Interrogative Adjectives
Interrogative adjectives are used to form questions. They single out the nouns they modify. The interrogative adjectives which, what, and whose, together with the nouns they modify, are commonly used to form questions. Example: Which life vest?

Indefinite Adjectives