Things to Know:
5. Indefinite Article: a, and an, refer to any one of a class of people, places, or things.
6. Nouns Used as Adjectives: Nouns are sometimes used as adjectives. When a noun is used as an adjective, it comes before another noun and answers the questions What kind? or Which one?
Exercise 1: Copy the following sentences onto your paper. Draw an arrow from each underlined adjective to the noun or pronoun it modifies.
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Exercise 2: On your paper, write the article that will correctly complete each of the following sentences. The word in parentheses tells you what kind of article.
1. The right to legal representation is (definite) basis of our legal tradition.
2. (indefinite) honest lawyer does not profit from (definite) outcome of a case if it is contrary to the client's interests.
3. (Indefinite) lawyer's primary responsibility toward (indefinite) client may conflict with certain ethical principles.
Exercise 3: Identifying Nouns Used as Adjectives; Each of the following sentences contains one noun used as an adjective. On your paper write each of the following sentences, underline the noun and circle the modifying noun used as an adjective.
1. Congress makes public laws.
2. Congress is made up of two government houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate.
3. When the President of the United States signs a bill, it becomes not just state law, but the law of the land.
4. Congress is also responsible for determining whether public policies are being administered according to the law.
5. Both houses of Congress are concerned with protecting citizen rights.
6. House members and senators are expected to represent the people in their districts and states.
- 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?
5. Indefinite Article: a, and an, refer to any one of a class of people, places, or things.
6. Nouns Used as Adjectives: Nouns are sometimes used as adjectives. When a noun is used as an adjective, it comes before another noun and answers the questions What kind? or Which one?
Exercise 1: Copy the following sentences onto your paper. Draw an arrow from each underlined adjective to the noun or pronoun it modifies.
- Providing legal counsel for poor people is called legal aid.
- It is available in civil and criminal cases.
- The government assumes responsibility for the legal aid of criminal defendants.
- In some jurisdictions, the judge appoints private lawyers to represent poor people.
- In 1963, the US Supreme Court declared that every poor defendant charged with a felony is entitled to free counsel as a matter of constitutional right.
- As a result, the number of public defenders multiplied, as did governmental budgets for legal aid.
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Exercise 2: On your paper, write the article that will correctly complete each of the following sentences. The word in parentheses tells you what kind of article.
1. The right to legal representation is (definite) basis of our legal tradition.
2. (indefinite) honest lawyer does not profit from (definite) outcome of a case if it is contrary to the client's interests.
3. (Indefinite) lawyer's primary responsibility toward (indefinite) client may conflict with certain ethical principles.
Exercise 3: Identifying Nouns Used as Adjectives; Each of the following sentences contains one noun used as an adjective. On your paper write each of the following sentences, underline the noun and circle the modifying noun used as an adjective.
1. Congress makes public laws.
2. Congress is made up of two government houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate.
3. When the President of the United States signs a bill, it becomes not just state law, but the law of the land.
4. Congress is also responsible for determining whether public policies are being administered according to the law.
5. Both houses of Congress are concerned with protecting citizen rights.
6. House members and senators are expected to represent the people in their districts and states.