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An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Be sure that you do not confuse an adjective with a pronoun. A pronoun replaces a noun, while an adjective must have a noun or pronoun to describe. This noun or pronoun may be implied or stated.
Exempli Gratia
The evil Medea concocted a deadly brew.
-Both evil and deadly are adjectives and modify respectively
Medea and brew.
-These adjectives are called descriptive adjectives.
"The evil that men do long lives after them, the good
is oft interred within their bones" -Shakespeare.
-Both evil and good refer to deeds that are implied but not stated.
-These adjectives are called substantive adjectives.
Adjectives fall into 5 categories some of which will be studied during the course of Latin II. In Latin I you studied descriptive adjectives such as: Telemachus was the dutiful son of Penelope and Odysseus. Dutiful describes son which is a predicate nominative, singular, masculine form. Thus dutiful will also in Latin take on the same characteristics.
The forms which will be covered in Latin II are:
| possessive adjective | his mother, her dog, their school |
| interrogative adjective | What god...?, Which school...? |
| demonstrative adjective | this girl, that boy, these girls, those boys |
| indefinite adjective | some men, any hope, |
| intensive adjective | the very man, the man himself |
Give the correct form for each adjective. The noun it modifies is in italics.
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