What are the adjectives in this sentence? Many rain-forest plants reach enormous sizes that may seem unbelievable.
Which words do you think are adjectives? We'll be glad to check your answers.
many, enormous,
That's a start.
What else modifies plants? What else modifies sizes?
rain-forest
Right.
And unbelievable modifies sizes.
To identify the adjectives in a sentence, we need to look for words that modify or describe nouns. In the given sentence, "Many," "enormous," and "unbelievable" are the adjectives. Here's how you can identify them:
1. Start by locating the nouns in the sentence. In this case, the nouns are "plants" and "sizes."
2. Now, examine the words that come before or after the nouns and determine if they describe or modify them. Adjectives typically answer questions like "What kind?" or "How many?" in relation to the noun.
3. In the given sentence, the word "Many" describes the noun "plants" by answering the question "How many plants?" Therefore, "Many" is an adjective.
4. The words "enormous" and "unbelievable" describe the noun "sizes." They give additional information about the sizes and answer the question "What kind of sizes?" making them adjectives.
So, the adjectives in the sentence "Many rain-forest plants reach enormous sizes that may seem unbelievable" are "many," "enormous," and "unbelievable."