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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 childish Beauty beautiful Music musical Asia Asian Spain Spanish What is an Adverb? An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb, an adjective or another adverb. In other words, adverbs tell you more about a verb. Example: Historians strongly believe that the Chinese invented rockets. Strongly describes the verb believe. Adverbs that modify Verbs An adverb that modifies a verb will answer one of the following questions: – Where? – When? – In What way? – To what extent? Examples Where? Travels everywhere Went outside When? Arrived yesterday Swims often In What Way? Works carefully Chews noisily To What Extent? Hardly ate Really surprised Adverbs that modify Adjectives An adverb that modifies an adjective answers the question to what extent? How tall? Extremely tall How hungry? Very hungry Adverbs that modify other Adverbs A sentence can have more than one adverbs. The purpose of one of the adverbs may be to further explain the meaning of another adverb. Examples: He moved very quickly. The verb is move. How did he move? Quickly. How quickly? Very quickly. Others quite bravely explored the ocean. Adverbs that modify adjectives or other adverbs usually come directly before the words they modify. They usually answer the question to what extent. – Marco Polo told really wonderful tales of China. Really modifies the adjective, wonderful. – People were very eager to hear his stories. Very modifies the adjective, eager. – They nearly always hung on every word. Nearly modifies the adverb, always. Adverbs can appear in different positions in sentences. – The tourists boarded the bus eagerly. (after the verb) – The tourists eagerly boarded the bus. (before the verb) – Eagerly, the tourists boarded the bus. (at the beginning) Adverbs can appear in different positions in sentences. – The tourists boarded the bus eagerly. (after the verb) – The tourists eagerly boarded the bus. (before the verb) – Eagerly, the tourists boarded the bus. (at the beginning)