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Adjectives and Adverbs

• Adj and adverbs are modifiers

ADJECTIVES

• Adj modify nouns and Pronouns    Eg. A beautiful house stands at the shore
• Adj answer the questions: how many,which one and what kind
• Adj are commonly placed before nouns
• Adj are found in predicates after the linking verb  Eg. She felt lonely
• numbers are also used as adj   Eg. There are 300 cars parked today

Adj patters:

• Adj-noun

most adj appear before the noun they describe     Eg. An immature person makes many foolish mistakes

•   Noun-Adj

Adj follow the noun,when describing the direct object     Eg. He calls his brother stupid

• Subj-LV-adj

the adj describes the subj of the linking verb     Eg. This restaurant is expensive

Present and PAst Participles,nouns and phrases and clauses are also used as adjectives

• the jumping  horse won the race   Participle
• a copper or steel pan is hard to clean  noun=copper/steel
• prep phrases can b adj     Eg. the pan in the sink has cracked
• phrases with relative pronouns are often are adj

ADVERBS

• Adverbs modifiy words that cannot be modified by adj
• often words ending in-ly are adverbs. Eg, quickly,especially etc
• adverbs answer the quest: how,how often,to what degree,when,where
• clauses and phrases can also function as adverbs

Modifiers(adj and adverbs) should appear close to the words they describe othewise this leads to errors in the sentence known as misplaced modifier