What are adjectives?
Adjectives are descriptive words which are used to add detail to a sentence. They can give important or necessary information (e.g. Please hand me the blue paper), or they can just make the sentence more interesting or detailed (e.g. A frigid, icy, painfully cold wind blew around the town). Adjectives modify (describe) nouns.
Adjectives can usually be identified by asking what:
The girl is beautiful.
What is the girl? She’s beautiful.
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