PPT-ADJECTIVES : A WORD THAT DESCRIBES A NOUN (or PRONOUN)

ADJECTIVES A WORD THAT DESCRIBES A NOUN or PRONOUN Show how many Five boys played soccer yesterday A pencil rolled onto the floor Show how much There was little rain The plentiful variety of colors made the picture beautiful. Los adjetivos en español. Sheila McCoy. Floyd College. Adjectives are like mirrors:. they reflect the gender and. number of the noun they . modify. . Adjective . = . Noun. . in form. Nouns have gender and number. Ms. Kenney, Pre-AP English 9, 2014-15. An adjective . modifies or describes . a noun or pronoun.. Adjectives answer the questions. What kind?. striped. shirt, . white. dog. Which one?. these. glasses, . T: . What . are the rules for whether it is a noun or a verb or something else?. S1: . It’s if you can touch it.. S2: . Can you touch it?. S3: . Can you go to it?. T: . Can you touch hockey? But . hockey. What Pronouns Do…. Pronouns SUBSTITUE for nouns.. Instead of saying, . George. went to . George’s . house, and . George. ate dinner before doing . George’s . homework, . we can say, . George . Nouns. Nouns. are words, phrases, or clauses that name. Persons. Places. Things. Or ideas. 4 Tests of a Noun. To determine whether a word or group of words is a noun, check to see if you can answer yes to at least one question below:. Adjectives . describe people, places, things, ideas, etc. They have only one form in all genders, singular and plural, and can be placed before nouns or after verbs such as . appear, keep, make, feel, sound, smell, look, taste. . UWF Writing Lab Grammar Skills Series #. 5. From . Real Good Grammar, Too. by Mamie Webb Hixon. PowerPoint Created by Michael Mobley. Last Updated Spring 2017. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement. Antecedent . Rochelle and my sister. are waiting for the school bus.. A.. B. .. C. .. D. .. Them. Themselves. They. Their. Which word in the sentence below is the adverb?. Todd stepped quietly around the sleepy dog.. DECLENSIONS/TYPES OF ADJECTIVES : 1 . 1 ST /2 ND DECLENSION: laetus , -a, -um – happy; pulcher , pulchra , pulchrum - beautiful 2. 3 rd DECLENSION: fortis , fortis -- tells what kind, which one, how many, or how much.. Examples. red barn that notebook seven apples many novels. romantic story interesting poem these ideas Irish ballad. cracked pitcher enough plates second time no excuse. ADJECTIVES. An adjective is a word used to modify or . describe. a noun or pronoun.. Adjectives give us more information about the noun or pronoun. Descriptive words!!!. Adjectives answer one of the following questions about the noun/pronoun:. Objective. Acquire . and use . academic . and domain-specific . words. (7.L.6. ). Rationale . We need to be able to apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different . contexts. 1. They modify nouns and noun phrases.. 2. There are different kinds of adjectives.. 3. They are gradable. They can take comparative and superlative degrees.. 4. They can be preceded by degree modifiers like: . Bell Ringer #4: Nouns. Copy the Definitions. Concrete noun. : A concrete noun is something you can experience with the five senses. You can touch a chair, smell perfume, see a dinosaur (if you have a time machine), hear a radio, or taste a hamburger. .