Adjectives and adverbs - 1

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: