Understanding Adjectives

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Adjectives modify a noun or pronoun.

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An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun near it.

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Example of an adjective modifying a noun.

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The students walked through the clean hallway.

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Example of an adjective modifying a noun with a different adjective.

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The students walked through the dirty hallway.

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Proper adjectives are capitalized.

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Proper adjectives are adjectives that are normally capitalized and come from proper nouns.

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Example of a proper adjective.

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The kids played American football.

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Adjective without modification.

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The students walked through the hallway.

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Illustration of adjectives "dirty" and "clean."

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Illustration related to the example of proper adjectives.

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Using pronouns as adjectives

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When a pronoun is used as a descriptor before a noun, it is an adjective pronoun. They often show possession.

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Example of adjective pronoun

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Their dinner is delicious.