Adjectives

What is an Adjective?

An adjective is a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or a pronoun.

Ex: A heavy rainstorm soaked the campsite.

Ex: The thirty students piled into the crowded room.

What are the adjectives?

Adjectives answer 3 Questions.

What Kind?

Which one?

How many?

What kind? Green backpack

spicy stew

Which one or ones?

Last hamburger Third hike

How many or how much?

Two flashlights

Many insects

Predicate Adjectives

• A predicate adjective is an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the verb’s subject. The linking verb connects the predicate adjective with the subject.

Ex: A volcanic eruption is violent.

Ex: The lava looks very thick.

Proper Adjectives

A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun. Proper adjectives are always capitalized.

Proper Noun Proper Adjective

China Chinese food

Ireland Irish cookies

Africa African beads

Demonstrative Adjectives

The demonstrative adjectives this, that, these, and those, are the same as demonstrative pronouns but they are used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun.

Ex: This apartment needs furniture.

Ex: Can you pick up those shoes.

Demonstrative adjective or pronoun?

Those are my shoes on the table.

Ask yourself is it modifying or describing a noun?

Comparison of Adjectives• The original form of the word is the positive

form.• An adjective that compares one noun to

another uses the comparative form.• An adjective that compares three or more

nouns to another uses the superlative form.

Ex: Sean is tall. (Positive)

Ex: Sean is taller than Crystal.(Comparative)Ex: Sean is the tallest in the class. (Superlative)

Comparison of Adjectives

# of syllables

Positive Form

Comparative Form

Superlative Form

1 syllable Fast Faster Fastest

2 syllables Active More active Most active

2 syllables ending with a –y.

Friendly Friendlier Friendliest

3 syllables or more

efficient More efficient

Most efficient

Write the Comparative and Superlative Form

Adjective Comparative Superlative

Adequate

Loud

Narrow

Busy

Green

Sympathetic

Difficult

greedy