A PowerPoint exploring adjectives and adverbs.

1. ADJECTIVES AKA
MODIFIERS

2. DESCRIBING WORDS
WARM NIGHT.
2. SOUR TASTE
3. TERRIFYING NOISE
4. BLUE NOSE
5. RED HAIR.
Adjectives used before the noun
are also called premodifiers.
1.

3. FIND THE ADJECTIVES IN THE
PASSAGE.

4. ADJECTIVES CAN SHOW DESCRIBE THE
INTENSITY OR STRENGTH OF
EMOTION, OPINIONS AND ATTITUDES.
SIMPLEcold
Beautiful
Powerful
SUPERLATIVEcoldest
Most beautiful
Most powerful
COMPARATIVEcolder
More beautiful
More powerful.

5. TURN THE ADJECTIVES ON
PAGE 50 INTO COMPARATIVES
AND SUPERLATIVES.

6. OTHER TYPES OF ADJECTIVES
Evaluative Adjectives: an adjective with an
implicit degree of judgement or bias. They may
have positive or negative connotations: the
gangly girl.
Descriptive Adjectives: Simply provide the
information: the thin girl.
Emotive Adjectives: are intended to provoke an
emotional reaction from the audience: the
anorexic-looking boy.

7. An attributive adjective is used to
pre-modify therefore before a noun.
Examples: „The empty bottle‟; „An
excessively large keyboard. You can
also use the word premodifier
Predicative Adjective: An adjective
used after the noun and verb.
“He is devastated”, “The table is
bare”. You can also use the word
post-modifier.

8. LOOK AT THE ADJECTIVES YOU IDENTIFIED IN
THE TEXT:
 Classify
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4)
the adjectives.
Can you find comparatives and
superlatives?
Are the adjectives: evaluative,
descriptive or emotive?
Are they predicative or attributive?
What are the effects of the adjectives?
How do they represent the ideas? How
do they show the writer’s attitude and
authority?

9. ADVERBIALS
Modifies/describes
a verb, adjective or
whole clause. They can show how and
when something happened.
E.g. He ran swiftly
Can end in ly.
 Uses one word or more than one word.

10. SPOT THE ADVERBS/ADVERBIALS
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6.
Nervously, he approached the fierce
lion.
Peter, frequently visits the old store on
Mansion Road.
The plane flew overhead and scared
away the birds.
He kissed her tenderly on the cheek.
Daniel checks the aquarium on a daily
basis.
The boats made their way to the quay
and anchored alongside.

11. SIX TYPES OF ADVERBS/ADVERBIALS
Manner - the way in which something is done e.g.
rapidly
Time – when something is done e.g. tomorrow
Place – where or in what direction something is done
e.g. backwards. Place names.
Frequency – how often something is done e.g.
frequently
Degree – to what intensity something is done e.g.
very, quite
Comment – adding an opinion to a clause e.g.
Unfortunately, Luckily.

12. Find and categorise these adverbials
1. Mr Jones ate the burger hungrily.
2. Yesterday, Mr Jones ate the
burger.
3. Mr Jones ate the burger at his
desk.
4. Happily, Mr Jones ate the burger
last week.

13. FIND THE ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBIALS ON
PAGE 52
1.
GMAP the text.
2.
Identify the mode features.
3.
Register.
4.
Adjectives and adverbials
1. Types of adjectives
2. Types of adverbials
3. Effects on meaning: representation of
ideas, writer’s authority and attitude, how
they shape the reader’s response?
5.
Identify and categorise the nouns.
6.
Link to lexis-semantics and phonology.
7.
Link to graphology.