What are adjectives?
Adjectives are words that tell us something about a noun, pronoun, impression or situation.
What do adjectives modify?
Adjectives can modify nouns or pronouns/names.
person |
thing |
|
Mandy is a careful girl |
This is a nice car |
|
Mandy is careful |
The car is nice |
|
She is careful |
It is nice |
Where do adjectives go?
An adjective can be put before the noun. Then it is an attribute.
person |
thing |
|
Mandy is a careful girl |
This is a nice car |
An adjective can be put after the verb to be (is).
Then it is part of the predicate.
person |
thing |
|
The girl is careful |
This car is nice |
Adjectives can also put after the following verbs:
to + appear, become, feel, get, go, keep, turn, look, like, smell, sound, taste and other verbs of experience.
Examples: