Descriptive Adjective
Adjectives modify nouns, words, phrases, or clauses that are used as nouns, and pronouns. Generally speaking let's say you have a car and you tell a friend that it is red and that it is new.
In a sentence that might look like: My new, red car is parked in the driveway.
Each adjective tells your friend something about the car:
NEW car
RED car
What about MY? In the noun phrase my new red car, MY is a possessive that is used as a determiner.
What if you said, "My new, red car is awesome!"
Is awesome used as an adjective? Sort of, but no, awesome is used as a predicate adjective.
Descriptive adjectives describe the noun.
Examples of descriptive adjectives [in bold]:
yellow banana, tall pole, wide door, deep ditch, flowing river, honest man, stormy sky
The suffixes below, when added to a word, will make that word into an adjective.
| Suffixes | Source | Meaning | Example |
| -able -ible | from -abilis (Latin) | means-that can be | portable, audible |
| -al | from -alis (Latin) | means of, like, having the nature of | ornamental |
| -ate | from atus (Latin) | means of or having to do with | colligate |
| -ful | from -ful (Old English) | means full of | playful |
| -ive | from -ivus (Latin) | means of or having to do with | massive |
| -ous | from osus (Latin) | means full of | joyous |
Here's a list of common adjective endings (suffixes)
-able, -al, -ant, -ary, -ative, -ory, -ed, -en, -ent, -ful, -ic, -ish, -ive, -less, -ous, -some, -y
I am bringing up Easy Grammar because of its tendency to take an item from grammar such as adjectives and have several lessons in a row on the item. When we first used Easy Grammar, I was concerned with this "grouping of one item" but my children did not forget the other parts of grammar as I thought they might.
