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: