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  • What Is an Adjective?
    owlowl______Visit http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adjectve.html
    From "small" to "truck-shaped," this comprehensive guide tackles adjectives of all shapes and sizes. Clear and full of examples, the page from the University of Ottawa covers the different adjective types, including possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite adjectives.
    jump to http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/phrfunc.html#adjective phraseAdjective Phrases An adjective phrase modifies a noun or pronoun. Learn how.
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  • Comparison of Adjectives
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    Is the President importanter than the Vice President, or more important? Learn how to use the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. This site covers a variety of topics, including irregular comparatives and superlatives, using "than" or "as" with adjectives, and using adjectives to compare the quantity of nouns. Advertising Alert ... Click for info

  • Recognizing Adjectives
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    Try a quiz on recognizing adjectives. Can you find all of the adjectives in this selection from D.H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"?

  • Adjectives for Writing Reviews
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    Need to write a book review? Whether you're describing novels, short stories, or poems, you'll need to use some descriptive adjectives. Here is a list of adjectives to describe an author and his or her style. Use our Dictionary look up (upper-left hand side of every page) to get the definitions of any unfamiliar adjectives.

  • The Prufrock Papers
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    Listen to the poet's voice, as you read along to the "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." You'll discover that T.S. Eliot used interesting adjectives throughout the poem. You can also find out what people were saying about "Prufrock" when it first came out.


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