Adjectives & Adverbs

Adjectives & Adverbs

The Adjectives & Adverbs unit will require students to: define adjective- An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun. define adverb- An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. recognize adjectives and adverbs in a sentence identify adjectives and adverbs in their own writing Adjectives and Adverbs can be found in Chapter 18 in your textbook (p.380) Questions adjectives answer:  1. What Kind? 2. Which one? 3. How many? 4. How much?  Questions adverbs answer:  1. Where? 2. When? 3. In what way? 4. To what extent? Remember that definite/indefinite articles (the/a/an) are considered adjectives. Possessives are regarded as adjectives (answers "which one?").  This includes possessive personal pronouns such as my, your, his, her, its, our, and their. Indefinite and demonstrative pronouns can also be used as adjectives. Adjective Procedure Things to remember: An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. (not a conjunction, verb, adverb, preposition etc..) Adjectives answer one of 4 questions; 1. What Kind? 2. Which one? 3. How many? 4. How much? about the word they are modifying. What’s in the prepositional phrase, stays in the prepositional phrase  Example Sentence: Despite the bitter cold the shaggy dog skated across the frozen pond even though it was sad about the bright fire it left by a man’s cabin.  Place parentheses around prepositional phrases: (Despite the bitter cold) the shaggy dog skated (across the frozen pond) even though it was sad (about the bright fire) it left (by a man’s cabin). Circle all articles- a, an, the: (Despite the bitter cold) the shaggy dog skated (across the frozen pond) even though it was sad (about the bright fire) it left (by a man’s cabin). Look inside the prepositional phrase to see if there are any words modifying the object of the preposition (which is a noun or pronoun). Circle them because they are adjectives: (Despite the bitter cold) the shaggy dog skated (across the frozen pond) even though it was sad (about the bright fire) it left (by a man’s cabin). Locate verbs- be especially careful to note linking verbs: (Despite the bitter cold) the shaggy dog skated (across the frozen pond) even though it was sad                                  Action Verb                                                             Link Verb (about the bright fire) it left (by a man’s cabin).                                       Action Verb Locate possible nouns or pronouns:  (Despite the bitter             cold) the shaggy dog skated (across the frozen pond) even though it was sad noun                      noun Act Verb                              noun                      PN L Verb (about the bright fire) it left (by a man’s cabin).                               PN    AV                      Noun Find words that modify the nouns and pronouns by answering one of the 4 questions: (Despite the bitter cold) the shaggy dog skated (across the frozen                                                                                                                                                                                    Noun                   noun   AV pond) even though it was sad (about the bright fire) it left (by a man’s cabin). noun                       PN LV                                 Noun  PN AV                     Noun  Be SURE to check after linking verbs!

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