An adjective is placed in front of a noun to modify the noun and give extra information about the noun.
Adjectives work to make a noun more specific. Adjectives also make writing more interesting.
Let’s look at the noun night.
We can make the word night more specific by putting adjectives in front.
We can say it is
– a dark night
– a moonlit night
– a rainy night
– a cold night
– a steamy night
– a windy night
– a snowy night
– a hot night
– a pleasant night
Every time we add an adjective to a noun, we change the noun slightly. We modify the noun.
An adjective makes the noun more specific and more interesting.
Can you spot the adjectives in these sentences?
I ate some spicy chicken.
The little girl dropped her blue blanket.
Spicy modifies chicken.
Little modifies girl, and blue modifies blanket.
Sometimes we use two adjectives with a noun, like this:
The tall, skinny man climbed the stairs.
I’m reading a long, scary book.
When you use two adjectives for the same noun, be sure to put a comma between the two adjectives.
Adjectives are used to modify nouns. Adjectives give more information about a noun; adjectives make a noun more specific. If you use two adjectives to modify a noun, put a comma between the adjectives.