Adjectives

What is an adjective?

• A word that describes a noun or pronoun

• A word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality

• A word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, adverb, or phrase

Adjectives are not plural

• False

• True

Which of these words is not an interrogative adjective?

• What

• Won't

• Whose

A compound adjective is one that is made up of multiple words. This type of adjective is not separate words, as with the coordinative adjective

• True

• False

Which of these words are demonstrative adjectives?

• that

• those

• than

The adjective usually comes after the noun

• False

• True

Which of these examples is a typical suffix of an adjective?

• -able

• -ihs

• -ci

Proper adjectives are derived from proper nouns, so they must be capitalized

• True

• False