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| modifiers. Always refer to nouns, pronouns or any word or group of words playing the part of a noun |
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| qualify, describe or limit nouns or pronouns |
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| help to make the meaning of a sentence clearer and more exact |
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| helps make a noun or pronoun more definite |
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| tell What kind, How many, How much, and Which one |
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| May appear as a noun/pronouns color, size, shape, type of kind, what kind in number or how much or many |
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| Adjectives like nouns can be common and proper |
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common adj. are general in nature
proper adj. is formed from a proper noun and requires a capital letter. like; German shepherd, Hong Kong flu |
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most frequently used adj. incl. A, An, The
A, An are indefinite
The is a definite |
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point out specific nouns thus the noun follows the use of this,that,those and these
This, That, These, Those |
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| The difference between Demonstrative proNouns & Adj |
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Demonstative proNouns can stand on their own unlike demonstrative Adj
Demonstative Adj.'s are followed by nouns |
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These can also be pronouns
Are less specific in their pointing out of nouns, They are followed by nouns |
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| each, one, another, many, no, either, some, few, several, any, neither, other, all, both, every |
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may also be pronouns
are used to ask questions |
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indicate ownership/possession
They show a n. belong to someone or something
Never spelled w a apostrophe
They modify n. or pro. |
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| My, your, his, her, its, our, your, their |
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Positive-simply descriptive
Comparative-compares two things
Superlative- indication of extreme, like 3 or more |
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the end of it
SUPERLATIVE use MOST before the adj. or adv. and -st or -Est suffix on |
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if the word after the article Sounds similar to a vowel sound then use An
Its about the sound not the spelling |
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| appear in front of n. or pro. to make them more specific or non-specific |
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| Using Er, Est, More, Most |
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Use if the word is one syllable use er or est
If its 3 or more use more or most |
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| SUPERLATIVE use MOST before the adj. or adv. and -st or -Est suffix on |
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| most one syllable words use er or est |
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| one way to remember if u use er or est ask your self how many things are being compared? If the answers two than use the two letter suffix -er if its superlative ie. 3 then use the three letter suffix -est |
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Some words are exceptions to the rules of comparison such as
Then there are absolute Adj. that are complete and will not be changed |
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| bad, good, little, less, many, much |
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one sure fire way to tell if a words a adj. or pronoun is the way its used in the sentence
If it is paired with a noun then its an adj. if its found standing alone then its a pronoun |
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