Adjectives.
small | large | white | black | straight + boys. crooked | five | some | all |
What words here modify boys by adding the idea of size? What by adding the idea of color? What by adding the idea of form? What by adding the idea of number? What are such words called? Why?
Let the teacher name familiar objects and require the pupils to join appropriate adjectives to the names till their stock is exhausted.
+DEFINITION.—An Adjective is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun+.
Analysis and Parsing.
+Model+.—A fearful storm was raging. Diagram and analyze as in Lesson 20.
+Written Parsing+.
Nouns. | Pronouns. | Adjectives. | Verbs. storm | —— | A fearful | was raging.
+Oral Parsing+.—A is an adjective, because it is joined to the noun storm, to modify its meaning; fearful is an adjective, because ———; storm is a noun, because ———; was raging is a verb, because ——-.