What Is An Adjective?
An adjective is a word which acts to modify a noun in a sentence. While adjectives play a large role in many languages — such as English — many other languages have no adjectives at all. In English the set of adjectives is fairly well understood, though some people include other parts of speech — such as articles like the — in the class of adjectives. There are two main roles an adjective may take in a sentence, and with a few exceptions each adjective is able to take either role just as easily. The first role is to act as a predicative adjective, in which the adjective modifies a preceding noun as a predicate, linked by a verb. An example of a predicative adjective can be found in the sentence: A zebra is striped. in which the adjective striped is linked the subject of the sentence, zebra, by use of the copula verb to be in the is form. The second role an adjective may take is as an attributive adjective, in which it modifies a noun by being linked directly to the noun as part of
