1. What is an Adjective?

2. Analyse? –The truck-shaped balloon floated over the treetops. –Mrs. Morrison papered her kitchen walls with hideous wall paper. –The small boat foundered on the wine dark sea. –The coal mines are dark and dank. –Many stores have already begun to play irritating Christmas music. –A battered music box sat on the mahogany sideboard. –The back room was filled with large, yellow rain boots.

3. What? An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. (By "noun" we include pronouns and noun phrases.) An adjective "qualifies" or "modifies" a noun (a big dog). Adjectives can be used before a noun (I like Chinese food) or after certain verbs (It is hard). We can often use two or more adjectives together (a beautiful young girl)

4. Determiner Determiners are words like the, an, my, some. They are grammatically similar. They all come at the beginning of noun phrases, and usually we cannot use more than one determiner in the same noun phrase. Articles: a, an, the Possessive Adjectives: my, your, his, her, its, our, their, whose

5. Other determiners: each, every either, neither some, any, nosome, any, much, many; more, most little, less, least few, fewer, fewest what, whatever; which, whichever both, half, all several enough

6. Adjective Order There are 2 basic positions for adjectives: before the noun after certain verbs (be, become, get, seem, look, feel, sound, smell, taste) Examples: 1. I like big cars. 2. My car is big.

7. Noun as Adjective As you know, a noun is a person, place or thing, and an adjective is a word that describes a noun: Adjective modifies noun clever teacher small office black horse

8. Sometimes we use a noun to describe another noun. In that case, the first noun "acts as" an adjective. Noun as adjective noun history teacher ticket office race horse

9. The "noun as adjective" always comes first If you remember this it will help you to understand what is being talked about: a race horse is a horse that runs in races a horse race is a race for horses a boat race is a race for boats a love story is a story about love a war story is a story about war a tennis ball is a ball for playing tennis tennis shoes are shoes for playing tennis a computer exhibition is an exhibition of computers a bicycle shop is a shop that sells bicycles

10. The "noun as adjective" is singular