Identifying Adjectives & Adverbs

Adjectives & Adverbs

The Salt and Pepper Of Language

Adjectives

- Add specificity

- Usually precede the noun it modifies

He writes meaningless letters.

She wore a beautiful dress.

Types of Adjectives

• Article - (a, an, the)

• Possessive (my, your, his, her, its, our, their)

• Demonstrative - indicate specific things (most numbers, any, many, no, which, whose)

• Attributive - give traits, qualities, attributes to nouns (golden, difficult, important, miniscule, duplicitous, benevolent, etc.)

Multiple Select

Quick check: Adjectives modify what? (Choose one or more)

• Adjectives

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Adverbs

• Clauses

Adjectives modify...

Nouns and pronouns!

Adverbs

- Modify or give context to verbs, adjectives, clauses, adverbs, and more

- Often end in -ly (but not all do)

The students scribbled answers furiously.

I began my homework yesterday.

Types of Adverbs

• Adverbs of Manner - how something happens (quietly, well)

• Adverbs of Place - where something happens (there, up, forward)

• Adverbs of Frequency - how often something happens (always, never, sometimes, hourly)

• Adverbs of Time - when something happens (now, tomorrow, today)

• Adverbs of Purpose - why something happens (because, thus, so)

Multiple Select

Quick check: Adverbs modify what? (Choose one or more)

• Adjectives

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Adverbs

• Clauses

Let's practice together

Identify the underlined words as an adjective or adverb

• The territorial cat sat precariously upon a dilapidated, cardboard box.

• territorial is an adjective, modifying cat

• precariously is an adverb, modifying sat

• dilapidated is an adjective, modifying box

• cardboard is an adjective, modifying box

Identify the underlined words as an adjective or adverb

• The shockingly poor decision to drink five energy drinks during a movie marathon resulted in a reckless dash to the restroom.

• shockingly is an adverb, modifying poor

• poor is an adjective modifying decision

• five is an adjective, modifying drinks

• energy is an adjective, also modifying drinks

• movie is an adjective, modifying marathon

• reckless is an adverb, modifying dash

Now you try!

Multiple Select

Identify which word or words in the following sentence are adjectives.

I spuriously bought a pair of designer leather shoes.

• spuriously

• designer

• bought

• leather

Multiple Select

Identify which word or words in the following sentence are adjectives.

Suddenly, she felt her job was the worst in the world.

• Suddenly

• her

• worst

• world

Multiple Select

Identify which word or words in the following sentence are adjectives.

He brought home a big square blue box.

• home

• big

• box

• square

• blue

Multiple Select

Identify which word or words in the following sentence are adverbs.

In the Fall, brilliantly colored leaves fall gracefully from many trees.

• many

• brilliantly

• gracefully

• colored

Multiple Select

Identify which word or words in the following sentence are adverbs.

The winning team equally distributed the prize money from the competition.

• winning

• equally

• prize

• distributed

Multiple Select

Identify which word or words in the following sentence are adverbs.

She seldom came to class and rarely finished work.

• seldom

• rarely

• finished

• and