What are the adjective questions? 

Knowing the adjective questions will help you understand and identify adjectives.

Before we look at the questions, we need to make sure that you remember what adjectives are. Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. 

The wise, handsome owl had orange eyes.

The, wise, and handsome are adjectives telling us more about the noun owl. 

Orange is an adjective telling us more about the noun eyes. 

Adjectives usually answer one of the following questions about the noun or pronoun that they are modifying.

The Adjective Questions

 Which one?
What kind?
How many?
Whose?

Sentence diagrams give us a way to show how the words in our sentences are related to each other. Diagramming adjectives helps you see that they modify nouns and pronouns. Adjectives go on a slanted line under the noun or pronoun that they are modifying.

We had hot coffee and two eggs for breakfast.

• Hot is an adjective describing the noun coffee. (What kind of coffee? hot coffee)
• Two is an adjective modifying the noun eggs. (How many eggs? two eggs)

My green and white book fell.

• My, green, and white are adjectives modifying the noun book. (Whose book? my book) (Which book? green and white book)

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