Things to Know:
Each of the following sentences contains one noun used as an adjective. Write the sentence and circle the modifying noun, then draw an arrow to the noun it modifies.
Exercise 2: Proper Adjectives - the next step
Revise each sentence, replacing the underlined phrase with a proper adjective.
- An adjective is used to describe a noun or a pronoun.
- Modify means to "change slightly."
- Adjectives modify meaning by adding information that answers one of four questions:
- What kind?
- Which one?
- How many?
- How much?
Each of the following sentences contains one noun used as an adjective. Write the sentence and circle the modifying noun, then draw an arrow to the noun it modifies.
- Congress makes public laws.
- Congress is made up of two government houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- When the President of the United States signs a bill it becomes a not just state law, but the law of the land.
- Congress is also responsible for determining whether public policies are being administered according to the law.
- Both houses of Congress are concerned with protecting citizen rights.
- House members and senators are expected to represent the people in their districts and states.
- Although the two houses of Congress meet separately, they sometimes meet in joint sessions.
- Often, business begins after a roll call of all members.
- House members must have been citizens of the United States for at least seven years before running or office.
- Sometimes, government business in Congress may be broadcast to the public on radio or television.
Exercise 2: Proper Adjectives - the next step
Revise each sentence, replacing the underlined phrase with a proper adjective.
- Law in Asia developed differently from our own.
- Between 403 B.C. and 221 B/C/ legalists in China believed that every aspect of life should be ruled by a set of strict and impersonal laws.
- The beginnings of our legal system came from laws of ancient Greece.
- Democracy in Athens included a jury system decide court cases.
- Later, in courts of ancient Rome, juries composed of senators and knights ruled on crimes such as corruption, treason and poisoning.
- Most legal systems of Europe grew out of the laws of these ancient cultures.
- Both the court system of America and the court system of Britain share the same historic roots.