Adjectives and Adverbs

In today's Grammar HELP! Student Handbook- Online! lesson, we continue our unit on Adjectives and Adverbs. For the next few lessons, we will be focusing on adjectives.   

You can read our introductory lesson, What Is an Adjective? Part One  before you begin today with the exercises.

Adjectives in Noun Phrases

We normally think of a common noun as one word such as friend, home, computer, beauty, news, and swimming.  A noun can, however, and often does consist of more than one word.  This is called a noun phrase.

Very often a noun phrase will contain an adjective such as a descriptive adjective, a demonstrative adjective, or a possessive adjective.

  • An example of a noun phrase that contains a descriptive adjective is the Black Sea.

  • If there is a possessive adjective or a demonstrative adjective in the noun phrase, do not use an article (a, an, the) before the possessive or descriptive adjective.  Examples of such noun phrases are my new computer, our home, and this letter.

type of adjective noun phrase
descriptive the Black Sea
  a possessive adjective
  my new computer
demonstrative this letter
possessive my new computer

Problem:   We saw everything in this the city.
Solution:   We saw everything in this city.

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