Zander - Unit 1 / Lesson 6

Unit 1 / Lesson 6

Zander Sargeant

Adjectives

• Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns

• To locate them easier, you can ask yourself:

• What kind / Which one(s) / How many

Adjective Examples

• "Red" "Big" "Pretty" 'Tall"

• All words that can modify or describe a noun or pronoun

• They have a fixed position

Open Ended

What adjective can you think of?

2 Places For An Adjective

• 1) Before the noun it modifies

• Example: The athlete has a big nose

• Adjective: Big

• Noun it is modifying: Nose

2 Places For An Adjective

• 2) After a linking verb, serving as a ______ __________

• Answer: Subject Complement

• Example: The student is smart

• Liinking Verb: is

• Adjective (Subject Complement): Smart

Multiple Choice

In the following sentence, what is the adjective's position?

Sentence: The computer was slow

• Subject Complement

• After the Subject it is modifying

Adverbs

• These words modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs

• Adverbs commonly end in -ly , but that is not always the case

• Adverbs tell us how, where, when, how much, how often

• They are very interchangeable in sentences

• Examples: Quietly, Extremely

Example

• In the sentence, "The princess lived happily ever after."

• Adverb: Happily

• Verb it is modifying: Lived

• "Happily" could also be changed throughout the sentence to:

• "The princess happily lived ever after" OR

• "Happily, the princess lived ever after"

Multiple Select

Which sentence(s) contain(s) an adverb?

• The boy was very lonely

• There was a tornado yesterday

• Polo usually passes his math exams