 Adjective a word that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun  What Kind?: gentle dog, Irish town, scary movie  Which One?: sixth grade, these books, other people  How Many or Much?: two tickets, full pitcher, no work  Ex: › The dog is gentle. › The sea, blue and sparkling, stretched out before us invitingly.

Articles special adjectives that modify nouns Ex: a, an, the Ex: Jennifer saw a brown fox in the bushes. We are going to the movies after school. Are you going to be an animal for Halloween?

 Proper Adjectives: formed from a proper noun and begin with a capital letter  Proper Nouns:Proper Adjectives:  JapanJapanese islands  EasterEaster Sunday  Queen VictoriaVictorian drama  SiouxSioux customs

 I have a free ticket for the last game.  A shiny coin stared up at me from the icy sidewalk.  Three colorful birds perched in the tall, green trees.  The Egyptian mummies are on display on the first floor.

 This, that, these, and those can be both as adjectives and as pronouns.  When they modify nouns or pronouns, they are called Demonstrative Adjectives  Ex:  Adjective: What are these skates doing in the kitchen?  Pronoun: What are these doing in the kitchen?  Adjective: I prefer that brand of frozen yogurt.  Pronoun: I prefer that.

 That is the strangest hot-air balloon I’ve ever seen!  Demonstrative pronoun  Will those squirrels find enough to eat during the winter?  Demonstrative adjective  These are the only shoes I can find that will fit.  Demonstrative pronoun  My dog, Manda, has been chewing on this piece of bone for three weeks.  Demonstrative adjective  According to the guidebook, those are the largest trees in North America.  Demonstrative pronoun

Directions: Identify all of the nouns, [pronouns], and ADJECTIVES in each of the following sentences. Do not include a, an, or the. The brown building in the photograph contains several individual homes. The BROWN building in the photograph contains SEVERAL INDIVIDUAL homes. The blue book needs to have its cover repaired. The BLUE book needs to have [its] cover repaired. She is going to name her son Steve. [She] is going to name [her] son Steve.