Let’s ease our way back into the Back to Basics series with a couple lessons on modifiers, or words that describe other words. These come in two varieties: adjectives and adverbs. Today we will focus on adjectives. Adjectives are handy words that help add description, tone, and personality to your writing. Like most everything to do with writing and grammar, the better you understand them and the rules surrounding them, the more useful they are to your work. Adjectives are words that modify a noun or pronoun. So if you want to describe a person, place, thing, or idea, you would use an adjective. They can come before or after the nouns or pronouns they are modifying, and sometimes, they might even be separated by a verb. In the examples below, the adjectives are shown in bold and italics, and the noun or pronoun it is modifying is shown in bold. The dog played with a green ball. I don’t like rainy days. Jared loves loud music. Papa’s house is blue. The movie is scary. You can use several adjectives in your sentences to paint a clearer picture, or you can even use a few adjectives to describe one noun or pronoun. Again, I will show you some examples with the adjectives shown in bold italics and the nouns or pronouns in bold. If more than one noun or pronoun is being modified, I will note which adjectives are modifying which noun or pronoun by making them the same color. The big brown dog played with a green ball. The old cat likes to chase fat squirrels. She hurried across the cold wood floor. The music I like is fast, loud, and fun. Did you notice something about the times more than one adjective was used to describe a word? Sometimes they are separated by a comma or the word “and,” but sometimes they are not. Why is that? |
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