Adjectives

Proper Adjectives

Adjectives formed from proper nouns

How can you tell if they are coordinate adjectives?

1) Can you replace the comma with the word and? 2) Can you reverse the order of the adjectives and keep the same meaning?

Link verbs (cont)

A main verb that conveys a state of being (is), relates to the senses (taste), or indicates a condition (grow) and that joins a subject to a word or words that rename or describe it.

Adjective

A word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun

Modify

An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by telling what kind, which one, or how many

Predicate Adjectives

An adjective that is in the predicate and that modifies the subject of a clause or sentence. They follow linking verbs.

Other common linking verbs (related to condition or senses)

Appear, grow, seem, stay, become, look, etc..."

Yes

Are there any special cases when an adjective comes after the word they modify?

Linking Verbs

Connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies, renames, or describes the subject.

Punctuating Adjectives

Coordinate and Cumulative Adjectives

Predicate Adjectives

Follow linking verbs and describe the subject

Cumulative Adjectives

If the paired adjectives fail the two-part test, then no comma is used. This shows that they must remain in a certain order to make sense.

Coordinate Adjectives.

If two adjectives modify a noun in the same way, place a comma between the two adjectives.

Compound Nouns

Sometimes a proper adjective and a noun are used together so many times that they become a compound noun.

Forms of the verb be

The most commonly used link verbs. "Be, shall be, should be, being, will be, would be, am, etc..."

Articles

The most frequently used adjectives are a, an, and the.

Definite Article

The. It refers to someone or something definite.

Demonstrative Adjectives

This, that, these, and those can be used both as adjectives and as pronouns. When they take the place of nouns or pronouns, they are called demonstrative pronouns.

Before the noun or pronoun they modify.

When do adjectives usually come in sentences?

Indefinite Articles

a, an. The refer to any member of a general group.