Modifiers such as adjectives provide additional information about nouns and pronouns by describing or limiting them. Adjectives fall into two main categories: descriptive adjectives which convey qualities, and limiting adjectives which restrict the scope. Descriptive adjectives can be attributive if placed beside the noun or predicative if following a linking verb. Limiting adjectives include articles, possessives, demonstratives, and others used to precisely identify a noun.
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Modifiers such as adjectives provide additional information about nouns and pronouns by describing or limiting them. Adjectives fall into two main categories: descriptive adjectives which convey qualities, and limiting adjectives which restrict the scope. Descriptive adjectives can be attributive if placed beside the noun or predicative if following a linking verb. Limiting adjectives include articles, possessives, demonstratives, and others used to precisely identify a noun.
Modifiers such as adjectives provide additional information about nouns and pronouns by describing or limiting them. Adjectives fall into two main categories: descriptive adjectives which convey qualities, and limiting adjectives which restrict the scope. Descriptive adjectives can be attributive if placed beside the noun or predicative if following a linking verb. Limiting adjectives include articles, possessives, demonstratives, and others used to precisely identify a noun.
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Modifiers such as adjectives provide additional information about nouns and pronouns by describing or limiting them. Adjectives fall into two main categories: descriptive adjectives which convey qualities, and limiting adjectives which restrict the scope. Descriptive adjectives can be attributive if placed beside the noun or predicative if following a linking verb. Limiting adjectives include articles, possessives, demonstratives, and others used to precisely identify a noun.
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What are modifiers?
Modifiers limit, qualify, or make more exact other words or word groups by describing them. Example: the brown cow
Brown "modifies" the word "cow" by naming a quality of it,
making its description more precise. Simply, the word "brown" is describing the cow.
Modifiers "depend on" the word they qualify; therefore, they are optional.
Modifiers which are placed before a noun are called pre-modifiers and those placed after a noun are called post-modifiers.
What are adjectives?
Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns. Two types of adjectives are
1. Desriptive adjectives can be attributive adjectives or predicate adjectives.
o Attributive Adjectives: Adjectives which appear directly beside the noun, most commonly before, are called attributive, because they attribute a quality to the noun they modify. More than one adjective can modify the same noun. o Examples: o o He washed the empty cup. o o "Empty" is an attributive adjective, as it is placed o directly beside the noun "cup." It is describing the cup. o o The chatter made the room noisy. o o This is an instance in which the attributive adjective o appears directly behind the noun. "Noisy" is describing the "room." o Predicate Adjectives: Adjectives which appear after a linking verb (see Lesson 1.3b) are called predicative, because they form part of the predicate. They modify the subject of the sentence or clause (a clause is a portion of a sentence which contains a subject and a predicate). For information on subjects and predicates, see Lesson 2.1.
Examples:
The painting was colourful.
noun: painting linking verb: was adjective: colourful (describing the noun"painting")
The wind remained strong.
noun: wind linking verb: remained adjective: strong (describing the noun "wind")
2. 3. Limiting adjectives do as their name suggests, they limit the noun being described. There are nine types of limiting adjectives.
