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2.1 What Is an Adjective?

This chapter introduces two groups of adjectives: descriptive
adjectives and determiners or limiting adjectives. In grammar, we
say that an adjective modifies the meaning of a noun or pronoun.

Modifiers make clearer or limit the meaning

of other words.

2.2 Descriptive Adjectives

Descriptive adjectives specify the shape,

size, or color of the noun they modify.

Descriptive adjectives are often called common adjectives.
Like a common noun, they are ordinary, everyday adjectives.
They describe a noun in a general way. Examples of common
adjectives include soft,blue,sunny,small, and wet.

In general, common adjectives are placed before the noun they
are describing, as the following examples illustrate.

These words are called adjectives.

They modify nouns and pronouns.

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Examples:

blue ball

DescriptiveAdjective Noun

wet flippers

DescriptiveAdjective Noun

red

my this any

two

whose

the,

an,

a

Certain little words make a big difference

for nouns and pronouns.