Limiting Adjectives
What are limiting adjectives?
Determiners
What question(s) is/are answered if something is a descriptive adjective?
What kind?
How many?
Which one?
What are the two degrees of adjectives?
superlative, comparative
Which of these sentences does not have a PA?
She grew tired of the persistent traffic.
The velvet blanket felt scratchy to me.
It was dark so I felt around the wall for the light switch.
The chocolate cake smells delicious.
It was dark so I felt around the wall for the light switch.
Give an example of an interjection.
Variable answers
Good grief! Wow! Yay!
What are the two rules for limiting adjectives?
Has to appear before a noun/pronoun
Cannot stand alone
What is the difference between a descriptive and a limiting adjective?
A descriptive adjective describes and a limiting adjective modifies
What does a comparative adjective do?
compares 2 things
How do you solve PA problems with an interrogative?
By changing it to a declarative
List three conjunctions.
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Demonstratives
What are the descriptive adjectives in the following sentence?
This antique doll is really old.
Antique, old
What does a superlative adjective do?
What three things are true of PAs?
1) Occurs after the verb in a declarative sentence
2) Always describes the subject
3) A sentence containing a PA must have a linking verb
Modifies or describes a noun/pronoun
Some, few, many, several, no and any are examples of which kind of determiner?
Indefinites
Label each adjective and the type of adjective in the following sentence.
Tanya's dog is the playful one.
Descriptive: playful
To make a superlative adjective, you add ____ to most one-syllable adjectives.
est
Show how you'd solve this sentence.
Are your eyes blue?
1) Change it to Your eyes are blue
2) Circle are
3) Underline eyes
4) Blue is the PA
In which sentence does the word function as an adjective?
I'll take four of those, please.
Four onions lay on the table
Four onions lay on the table.
What are the 6 types of determiners?
Name 4 suffixes of some descriptive adjectives.
ous, ful, able, y, ible, ive, less, all
Name two adjectives that completely change form when using the comparative or superlative.
Good
Bad
Show how you'd solve this sentence.
Does the cake seem flat?
1) The cake does seem flat
2) Circle does seem
3) Underline cake
4) Change does seem to is
5) Label PA
nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, verbs, interjections, other conjunctions