Adjectives

Mrs. Turner

English 7

What is an adjective?

Adjectives are words that modify, or describe a noun or pronoun.

Adjectives answer the questions what kind, which one, how many and how much.

Examples:

The noisy children cheered for Santa Claus.

What is the noun in this sentence?Which word is describing the children?Noisy tells you what kind of children.

Bob chewed pink bubble gum. What are the adjectives in this sentence?Pink and bubble describe what kind of

gum Bob chewed.

The girl ate two slices of pizza.What is our adjective?Two describes how many slices the girl

had.Blast from the Past: of pizza is a

prepositional phrase.

The most commonly used adjectives are the articles a, an and the.

These articles describe how many.Example: The student went outside.How many students went outside?One

Many adjectives are formed from nouns.Examples:Child childishBeauty beautifulMusic musicalAsia AsianSpain Spanish

What is an Adverb?What is an Adverb?An adverb is a word that modifies An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb, an adjective or (describes) a verb, an adjective or another adverb. In other words, another adverb. In other words, adverbs tell you more about a verb.adverbs tell you more about a verb.

Example: Historians Example: Historians stronglystrongly believe that the Chinese invented believe that the Chinese invented rockets.rockets.Strongly describes the verb Strongly describes the verb believe.believe.

Adverbs that modify VerbsAdverbs that modify Verbs

An adverb that modifies a verb will An adverb that modifies a verb will answer one of the following answer one of the following questions:questions:– Where?Where?– When?When?– In What way?In What way?– To what extent?To what extent?

ExamplesExamplesWhere?Where?

Travels Travels everywhereeverywhereWentWent outsideoutside

When?When?Arrived Arrived yesterdayyesterdaySwims Swims oftenoften

In What Way?In What Way?Works Works carefullycarefullyChews Chews noisily noisily

To What Extent?To What Extent?HardlyHardly ate ateReallyReally surprised surprised

Adverbs that modify AdjectivesAdverbs that modify Adjectives

An adverb that modifies an adjective An adverb that modifies an adjective answers the question answers the question to what extent?to what extent?

How tall? How tall? ExtremelyExtremely tall tall

How hungry? How hungry? VeryVery hungry hungry

Adverbs that modify other AdverbsAdverbs that modify other AdverbsA sentence can have more than one A sentence can have more than one adverbs.adverbs.The purpose of one of the adverbs may be The purpose of one of the adverbs may be to further explain the meaning of another to further explain the meaning of another adverb.adverb.Examples:Examples:He moved He moved veryvery quicklyquickly..The verb is The verb is movemove. How did he move? . How did he move? QuicklyQuickly. How quickly? . How quickly? VeryVery quickly. quickly.Others Others quitequite bravelybravely explored the ocean. explored the ocean.

Adverbs that modify adjectives or other Adverbs that modify adjectives or other adverbs usually come directly before the adverbs usually come directly before the words they modify. They usually answer words they modify. They usually answer the question the question to what extentto what extent..– Marco Polo told Marco Polo told reallyreally wonderful tales of wonderful tales of

China.China.ReallyReally modifies the adjective, wonderful. modifies the adjective, wonderful.

– People were People were veryvery eager to hear his eager to hear his stories.stories.

VeryVery modifies the adjective, eager. modifies the adjective, eager.– They They nearlynearly always hung on every word. always hung on every word.

NearlyNearly modifies the adverb, always. modifies the adverb, always.

Adverbs can appear in different Adverbs can appear in different positions in sentences.positions in sentences.– The tourists The tourists boardedboarded the bus the bus eagerlyeagerly. .

((after the verbafter the verb))– The tourists The tourists eagerlyeagerly boardedboarded the bus. the bus.

((before the verbbefore the verb))– EagerlyEagerly, the tourists , the tourists boardedboarded the bus. the bus.

((at the beginningat the beginning))

Adverbs can appear in different Adverbs can appear in different positions in sentences.positions in sentences.– The tourists The tourists boardedboarded the bus the bus eagerlyeagerly. .

((after the verbafter the verb))– The tourists The tourists eagerlyeagerly boardedboarded the bus. the bus.

((before the verbbefore the verb))– EagerlyEagerly, the tourists , the tourists boardedboarded the bus. the bus.

((at the beginningat the beginning))