Richbaub's Introduction to Middle School Grammar Book 2

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Chapter 4 Description 101: Adjectives & Adverbs 4.1 – Adjectives Understanding adjectives goes WAY beyond knowing about the words that describe nouns and pronouns! First of all, there’s a certain type of adjective which you’ve probably never heard of: the predicate adjective. You’ll be learning about predicate adjectives and their close cousins, predicate nominatives. Understanding these descriptive words will add to your knowledge about when to use “me” vs. when to use “I” (and all of the other personal pronouns). Secondly, as you become a more advanced writer, you will discover giant groups of words—phrases and clauses— that also function as adjectives. Knowing about adjective phrases and clauses will add a whole new sophistication to your sentence structures, and it will help you understand some important punctuation rules. This chapter will help to prepare you for those future lessons. A. Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns, which is the same thing as saying that adjectives describe people, places, things, and ideas. B. Adjectives are easy to use and easy to spot. Can you find the adjective in the following sentence? She snuck through the halls in red sneakers. C. Of course “red” pops out as describing the noun sneakers. Aren’t adjectives easy? RICHBAUB’S INTRODUCTION TO MIDDLE SCHOOL GRAMMAR, BOOK 2 57
Exercise 17 Part 1: Write adjective-noun pairs—come up with a noun and put an adjective before it: 1. ________________________________ 2. ________________________________ 3. ________________________________ 4. ________________________________ 5. ________________________________ Part 2: Write prepositional phrases that have adjectives describing the o.p.’s (objects of the preposition). 6. ________________________________ 7. ________________________________ 8. ________________________________ about above across after against along around at before behind below beneath beside between beyond by down during for from in in front of inside instead of into near next to of off on out over through to toward under until up with without Quick Fact: The most common adjectives in the world are the “Articles.” The Articles are a, an, and the. Here’s a sentence that, technically, includes three adjectives: The chef cut an orange with a knife. For our purposes, though, when hunting for Adjectives, we will ignore Articles—there are just too many of them!! 58 RICHBAUB’S INTRODUCTION TO MIDDLE SCHOOL GRAMMAR, BOOK 2
Page 2 and 3: Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 - PREPO
Page 4 and 5: 5.2 - Titles: Capitalizing, Italici
Page 8 and 9: The Locations of Adjectives A. Most
Page 10 and 11: Extra Practice with Adjectives Dire
Page 12 and 13: A Trick for Finding Predicate Adjec
Page 14 and 15: Extra Practice for Evaluation 5 Par
Page 16 and 17: 4.3 - Predicate Nominatives & Perso
Page 18 and 19: Part 2: In the following sentences,
Page 20 and 21: Part 3: Write prepositional phrases
Page 22 and 23: The Questions Adverbs Answer A. The
Page 24 and 25: Exercise 21 Part 1: Fill in the bla
Page 26 and 27: Getting into “The Routine” A. S
Page 28 and 29: Exercise 22 Use “The Routine”:
Page 30 and 31: 7. Everyone on the dock had been in
Page 32 and 33: Exercise 23 Part 1: Surround prepos
Page 34 and 35: 11. Tom had slept soundly in the ch

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