English: Chapter 3: Adjectives and Adverbs

What is a compound adjective?

A compound adjective is an adjective that is made up of more than one word.

How are demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns used as adjective?

A demonstrative, interrogative, or indefinite pronoun becomes an adjective if it answers the question "Which one?" "How many?" or "How much?" about a noun that follows it.

How does a noun used as an adjective modify nouns?

A noun used as an adjective answers the question "What kind?" or "Which one" about a noun that follows it.

How does a personal pronoun used as an adjective modify nouns?

A personal pronoun that can be used as an adjective answers the question "Which one?" about a noun that it follows.

How is a pronoun used as an adjective?

A pronoun is used as an adjective if it modifies a noun.

What is a proper adjective?

A proper adjective is a proper noun used as an adjective or an adjective formed from a proper noun.

What is an article?

A word that comes before a noun to show if it's specific or general (modifies nouns)

Adjective

An adjective is a word used to describe a noun or a pronoun or to give a noun or pronoun a more specific meaning

How does an adverb modify another adverb?

An adjective modifying another adverb always answers just one question: "To what extent?"

Adverb

An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

How does an adverb modify a verb?

An adverb modifying a verb answers the questions "Where?" "When?" "In what manner?" or "To what extent?"

How does an adverb modify an adjective?

An adverb modifying an adjective answers only one question: "To what extent?"

How does an adjective modify [noun] meanings?

By answering four questions about a noun or pronoun they modify. "What kind?" "Which one" "How many?" "How much?"

What does a definite article indicate?

It indicates that the noun it modifies refers to a specific person, place or thing? Example => the

What does an indefinite article indicate?

It indicates that the nouns they modify refer to nay one of a class of people, places, or things. Example => a, an

Some words can be either adverbs or adjectives, depending on how they are used.

Remember that an adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb; an adjective modifies a noun or pronoun

Modification (modify)

The process by which an adjective describes a word or makes it more specific (change slightly)

Modifiers

Words or phrases that sharpen or adjust the meaning of nouns (adjectives) and make verbs more precise (adverbs)