Adjectives

1. Adjectives All the cool kids use adjectives!

2. An adjective describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. • The articles a, an, and the are also adjectives • Answers the questions what kind?which one? how many? orhow much? • The frightened young child hid behind his mother. • The, frightened,and young modify child. Adjectives

3. Proper Adjective—createdfrom a proper noun and is CAPITALIZED • Indiana summers can be very humid. • Indiana is a proper adjective. Predicate Adjective—follows a form of the “be” verb (or other linking verb) and describes the subject • Late autumn seems grim to those who love summer. • grim modifies autumn Types of Adjectives

4. Three forms of Adjectives: positive, comparative, and superlative • Positive form—describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else • MOST adjectives are in the positive • The first game was long and tiresome. Forms of Adjectives

5. Comparative form—(-er, more, or less) • compares two persons, places, things, or ideas • The second game was longer and more tiresome than the first. Superlative form—(-est, most, or least) • compares three or more persons, places, things, or ideas • The third game was the longest and most tiresome of all. Forms of Adjectives (con’t.)

6. PositiveComparativeSuperlative Big bigger biggest Helpful more helpful most helpful Painful less painful least painful NOTE: Use more and most or less and least instead of adding a suffix with many adjectives of two or more syllables