An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. An adjective describes the noun or pronoun that follows it.
There are several kinds of adjectives:
Predicate Adjectives
Predicate adjectives are presented after a linking verb and modify the subject of the sentence. Predicate adjectives do not appear before the noun or pronoun they modify as most adjectives do. Instead they are found in the predicate of the sentence. The predicate of the sentence explains what is being stated about the subject or it contains the action of the sentence in relation to the subject.
Articles
Articles are also considered to be adjectives. Articles are placed before the nouns or pronouns they modify. Common articles include a, an, and the.
Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives are possessive pronouns placed before nouns they modify. Examples of possessive adjectives are her, our, their, and your.
- Mike and Joe wrote a story about flying pigs. Sally and I wrote a story about dreams. The teacher said that their story contained more creativity than our story.
- With the combination of her writing skills and your communication skills the presentation will be very informative.
Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those) identify or express the relative position of a noun in time or space. Demonstrative adjectives are placed before all other adjectives in a noun phrase.
While reading this book I noticed that these examples are not incorporated in the exercises.
Since I only brought thirty dollars I need to decide between that shirt on display and those shoes in the next shop.
Indefinite Adjectives
An indefinite adjective is used to describe nouns in a non-specific way. Some examples of indefinite adjectives are each, every, few, some, many, several, all, and none.
Every student in this line has taken some of the cookies on the table.
Each story has any number of endings that you can create.
