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Adjectives, Jhuriany Worrell Akyana Bonilla - Coggle Diagram
Adjectives
Is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by providing descriptive or specific detail.
Types of adjectives
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Compound Adjectives
Its consists of two or more words that function as a unit. Depending on its position within the sentence, When it comes before the noun, use a hyphen to join the adjectives and When it follows the noun it modifies, do not use a hyphen to join the adjectives.
examples:
She is taking a class on nineteenth-century literature.
She is studying literature from the nineteenth century.
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Coordinate Adjectives
It consists of two or more adjectives separated by a comma instead of by a coordinating conjunction.
example:
a cold, rainy day.
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Interogative Adjectives
It is used to ask a question.
example:
Whose book is this?
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Limiting Adjectives
Its restricts the meaning of the word it modifies
examples:
that car.
this room.
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Proper Adjectives
Its adjectives are derived from a proper noun
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examples:
French class.
Spanish food.
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Descriptive Adjectives
It describes the names and qualities of the noun or pronoun that it modifies.
examples:
brown dog.
bigger house.
Placement and Order of Adjectives
Coordinates adjectives (subjective evaluations or personal opinions): nice nasty, packed, pitiful.
Determiners: articles (a,the), demonstratives (this,those), and possessives (his,our,Mary´s,everybody´s), amounts (one,five,many,few), order (first, next last).
Adjectives discribing age: young, old, modern, ancient.
Adjectives discribing shape: long, short, round, square.
Adjectives describing size: big, huge, little, tiny.
Adjectives discribing nationality: Italian, French, Japanese.
Adjectives discribing color: blue, green, red, white.
Adjectives describing architectural style or religion: Greek, Gothic, Cathlic, Jewish, Muslim.
Adjectives describing material: cardboard, plastic, silver, gold.
Nouns functioning as adjectives: soccer ball, cardboard box, history class.
Uses
As Subject Complements:
Is an adjective that follows a linking verb (appear, become, believe, feel, grow, smell, seem, sound, remain, turn, prove, look, taste) and modifies the sentence’s subject, not its verb.
example:
The crowd appeared calm.
As Object Complements
Is an adjective that follows a sentence’s direct object and modifies that object, not the verb and also answers the question what? after the direct object.
example:
Bob considered the experiment a success.
With Past and Present Participle Verbs
It is frequently formed by using the past participle (-ed, -t, or -en) and the present participle (-ing) verb forms.*
example:
The group of children scared the sleeping dog
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