Adjectives

    Without adjectives, life would be boring. Imagine reading a book without know what the characters looked like or even something as simple as what the weather was like. It's the difference between a sentence like this, "It was a day." And a sentence like this,"It was a warm, sunny beautiful spring day." Adjectives help you describe exactly what you want to say.
 
   Also, if we didn't have adjectives, imagine how confusing life would be. If I wanted to tell you how to find my car in the parking lot without adjectives, it would be nearly impossible. It's a car. It is a color. It is in a row. It is a size. But with adjectives, the task becomes easier: It's the tiny red sports car in the fifth row. All of those italicized words are adjectives.

    Adjectives answer the following questions:
What kind?   The purple shirt.
Which one?  I want that cookie.
How many?  The movie cost ten dollars.
How much?  I have no time to get it done.

    Remember, adjectives only describe nouns and pronouns. Which means they only describe people, places, things, and ideas. If you want to describe something else, look at the adverb post.