This document discusses different types of adjectives including proper adjectives formed from proper nouns, articles like "the", "a", and "an", predicate adjectives that follow linking verbs, coordinate and non-coordinate adjectives, and comparative and superlative adjectives that are used to compare two or more things. It provides examples for each type and explains the rules for using different articles and forming comparatives and superlatives.

1. ADJECTIVES

2. How do we describe things
properly?

3. Look at these examples:
White snow.
A candy cane.
His slay.

4. What do you call these words
that describes nouns and
pronouns in the sentence?
ADJECTIVES

5. WHAT ARE ADJECTIVES?

6. Adjectives are words used
to describe a noun or a
pronoun.
Adjectives are words that
modify, limit or restricts
nouns or pronouns.

7. In these examples, how are
adjectives used?
Far valleys
Silver jewelry
Seven ages
Both answers
His heart
Those apples

8. In these examples, how are
adjectives used?
Far valleys (far modifies valleys)
Silver jewelry (silver modifies jewelry)
Seven ages (seven limits ages)
Both answers (both limits answers)
His heart (his restricts heart)
Those apples (those restricts apples)

9. Please read the sample
sentence:
She is influenced by Korean culture.

10. Proper Adjective
Proper nouns that function
as Adjectives are called
Proper Adjectives.

11. PROPER NOUN PROPER ADJECTIVE
Alcott Alcott novel
Chicago Chicago storm
PROPER NOUN PROPER ADJECTIVE
Jefferson Jeffersonian Democracy
Mexico Mexican art
Table 1
Table 2
Analyze the tables carefully.

12. Why do you think some form
changes when used as an
Adjective?
REMEMBER:
If a Proper Noun is used as an
Adjective, then the form remains,
but if the Adjective is formed from
a Proper Noun, then the form of
the Proper Noun is changed.

13. Harry Potter series and Asian cuisine
Example:

14. Proper Adjectives can be
simply Proper Nouns used as an
Adjective while others are
formed from Proper Nouns.
Always remember that Proper
Adjectives generally begin with
a capital letter.

15. How about these following
sentences?
Did you find the car keys?
We stayed in a café just outside
the building.
June will give us an answer.

16. What do you call the words
“the”, “a” and “an” ?
ARTICLES

17. ARTICLES introduces
nouns, they function as
Adjectives.

18. Did you find the car keys?
We stayed in a café just outside
the building.
June will give us an answer.

19. “the” is a Definite Article that
describes a specific object.
When can we use “the”, “a”
and “an” in a sentence?
“a” and “an” are Indefinite Articles
that describes an unspecified object.

20. If “a” and “an” are both
Indefinite Articles, when
can you use “a” and when
can you use “an”?

21. Did you find the car keys?
We stayed in a café just outside
the building.
June will give us an answer.

22. REMEMBER:
You can use “a” if the next
word begins with a
consonant sound.
You can use “an” if the
next word begins with a
vowel sound.

23. Notice the following fragments/
word:
1. ___ history lesson
2. ___ honest man
3. ___ ugly hat
4. ___ union
5. ___ only-child
6. ___ one-horse town

24. 1. a history lesson.
2. an honest man.
3. an ugly hat.
4. a union.
5. an only-child.
6. a one-horse town.

25. The answer lies in the sound the
next word produces. “Honest” for
example begins with a letter “H”
but then sounds like the vowel “o”,
therefore article “an” is used.
Same case for the word “union”. It
may start with a vowel letter but
sounds like “yu”, therefore article
“a” is used.

26. Even without Articles, Adjectives
can still be found in sentences:
1. He is confident.
2. He feels confident.
3. She is nervous.
4. She feels nervous.

27. Predicate Adjectives follow
a linking verb and gives
more information about the
subject.

28. What are examples of linking
verbs?
Am
Is
Are
Was
Were
And other forms of to be.

29. What do you call these words:
seem, look, smell, taste and
feel?
They are verbs pertaining to
the senses and are linking
verbs too.

30. Let us try and answer the following
examples:
Substitute the linking verbs into verbs
that pertains to the senses.
1. She is better
2. The Macaroni salad is good.
3. Ricardo is out of breath.

31. Substitute the linking verbs into verbs
that pertains to the senses.
1. She (feels, smells, looks) better
2. The Macaroni salad (tastes) good.
3. Ricardo (seems, looks) out of breath.

32. Let us look at more examples
of sentences with Adjectives:
All the children are ready, willing
and enthusiastic.
She gave birth to a healthy baby
girl.

33. What do you call these series of
Adjectives that does not change
the idea of the sentence when
interchanged?
Coordinate Adjectives

34. What do you call these series of
Adjectives that changes the idea of
the sentence when interchanged?
Non-coordinate
Adjectives

35. Let us practice!
Identify the Coordinate and Non-coordinate
Adjectives in the sentences.
1. He ate the chewy, hard cheese.
2. My dad drives a blue metal car.
3. He had an ugly big truck.
4. It was an especially sad movie.

36. Now try to look at this sentence:
My old grandparents’ house has
been repaired thrice.

37. Analyze the following
sentences:
 Truth is stranger than fiction.
 This poem is more musical than the first one.
 Her voice is good but your is better.
 She walked far into the woods but he walked
farther.
 He is as milk as lamb.
 Playing domino is not challenging as playing
chess.

38. What do you call these
words that compare two
things?
Comparative

39. If you are to compare two
things, what do you add in
the adjectives?
-er, less or more

40. If you call the words that
compares two things,
comparatives, what do you
call words that compare three
things or more?
Superlative

41. If you are to compare three
things or more, what do
you add in the adjectives?
-est, least or most

42. IRREGULAR MODIFIERS
POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
Bad
Far (distance)
Far (extent)
Good
Ill
Late
Little (amount)
Many
Much

43. POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
Bad Worse Worst
Far (distance) Farther Farthest
Far (extent) Further Furthest
Good Better Best
Ill Worse Worst
Late Later Last or Latest
Little (amount) Less Least
Many More Most
Much More Most
IRREGULAR MODIFIERS

44. Truth is stronger than fiction.
This poem is more musical than
the first one.
Her voice is good but your is
better.
She walked far into the woods
but he walked farther.