Adjectives Flashcards
Teach adjectives
What are adjectives?
Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.
What do you call a group of words that contain a subject and a verb that acts as an adjective
An adjective clause
What do you call an adjective clause when it’s stripped of it’s subject and verb?
An adjective phrase
What is a participle?
A verb acting as an adjective
Where do adjectives most commonly appear in a sentence?
Before the noun or noun phrase they modify
When an adjective modifies an indefinite pronoun, does it come before or after the pronoun
When indefinite pronouns — such as something, someone, anybody — are modified by an adjective, the adjective comes after the pronoun
What are the three degrees of adjectives?
Postive, Comparative, Superlative
What are the two suffixes used to create comparitives and superlatives of two syllable adjectives ending in y
-ier and -iest
What are the degrees used for adjectives that are more than one syllable and do not end in y
More and Most
Do not form comparatives or superlatives of adjectives that express an extreme of what?
An extreme of comparison, such as unique.
Do not use more with comparitive adjectives formed with?
-ier. Do not say “more happier”
Do not use most with superlative adjectives formed with?
-est. Do not say “most happiest”
The as_as construction is used to express what?
Equality. “I am as cool as him.”
Adjectives in their comparitive and superlative forms can be accompanied by what 3 things to intensify or downplay the degree
Pre modifiers, single words, and phrases.
“We were a lot more careful this time.”
“The weather this week has been somewhat better.”
If the intensifier very accompanies a superlative, what is also required?
A determiner is required
“She is wearing her very finest outfit for the interview.”
When we are talking about countable things, what word do we use?
Fewer. “We have fewer bars of soap now than we had last week.”
When we are talking about measurable quantities that we cannot count, what word do we use?
Less. “We have less time to complete the task than we first thought.”
We usually use fewer for countable things and less for measurable quantities that we cannot count. What do we use for numerical and statistical expressions?
Less. “We have less than twenty miles to home.”
When making a comparison with “than” do we end with a subject form or object form? “taller than I/she” or “taller than me/her.”
We use subject form. “taller than I/she.”
When adjectives are in a series, with 8 categories, they are put in order according to The Royal Order of Adjectives. What are the first four?
- Determiners
- Observation
- Size & Shape
- Age
When adjectives are in a series, with 8 categories, they are put in order according to The Royal Order of Adjectives. What are the last four?
- Color
- Origin
- Material
- Qualifier
When you use adjectives of the same class in a series, what are they called?
Coordinating adjectives. And you will want to put a comma between them. “The inexpensive, comfortable shoes.”
If you could have inserted a conjunction such as but or and inbetween two adjectives of the same class in a series, what should you put there instead.
A comma. “The inexpensive but comfortable shoes” < “The inexpensive, comfortable shoes.”
If an adjective owes it’s origins to a proper noun, it should be what?
Capitalized. “A Christian rock-band.”
