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Descriptive Adjectives, Position of Adjectives  Descriptive Adjectives: describe a noun’s or pronoun’s number, color, size, type, or other qualities.

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1 Descriptive Adjectives, Position of Adjectives  Descriptive Adjectives: describe a noun’s or pronoun’s number, color, size, type, or other qualities.  Ashes, thick and hot, rained down on Pompeii.  An eminent Roman writer described the disaster.

2 Descriptive Adjectives, Position of Adjectives  An adjective serves as a subject complements when it follows a linking verb and describes the subject.  People were fearful because of the disaster.

3 Descriptive Adjectives, Position of Adjectives  An adjective can serve as an object complement when it follows a direct object and describes it.  The disaster left people fearful.  Our new puppy made my brother happy.

4 Descriptive Adjectives, Position of Adjectives  An adjective is usually places before the noun it describes, but sometimes it can go after the word it describes.  The water, cool and fresh, was heaven to the thirsty travelers.


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