1. What are Adjectives?
Adjectives are modifiers. They modify nouns or pronouns. This means they tell us more about how a noun or pronoun looks or behaves.
Adjectives can often answer questions like:
What kind?
Which one?
How many?
How much?

2. What are Adjectives?
Picture a car in your mind. Do you have an image in your head? Now make it red.

3. What is an Adjective?
Now make it fast.

4. What is an Adjective?
Now make it old.

5. What is an Adjective?
Now make it broken.

6. What is an Adjective?
Now make it green.

7. What is an Adjective?
Adjectives change the meaning of a noun by changing the picture in your mind. That’s why they are called modifiers. Modify = change

8. Descriptive Adjectives
DESCRIBE!
They add an image to your sentence which allows the reader to see, smell, hear, touch, or taste something in the sentence.
Descriptive adjectives make writing much better!

9. Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives show ownership
These words are the same as the possessive pronouns.
There are seven possessive adjectives:
my our
your
its their
his
her

10. Location of Adjectives
The most common location is directly in front of the noun it is modifying.
Ex. the big dog, her toy
Another location is after a linking verb or verb of condition.
Ex. The book was interesting.

11. Order of Adjectives
Adjectives must be used in a certain order in a sentence.
You can use as many as you want!