It is in attributive position if it comes before the noun it modifies.
All limiting adjectives are in this position. There are two boys in the classroom. The girls are wearing big red bows on their head. It is in predicate adjective position if it comes after the linking verb. The building stands majestic in Roxas Boulevard. The students are noisy while they are waiting for their next period teacher. It is in the objective complement position if it completes the meaning of the direct object of the verb. The objective complement functions to provide information about the object of the verb. She cut her hair short. Most critics found the play obscene. Exercise. Tell the position of the underlined adjective in the following sentences. Draw an arrow from the adjective to the word it modifies. ______________
1. Even the fierce lion gets hurt.
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2. The road became steep and rocky.
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3. She drives us crazy.
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4. The superhero found the place desolate.
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5. We all consider her unworthy.
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6. The tap water is not fit for drinking.
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7. The naughty child threw stones to the passersby.
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8. The book is full of interesting stories.
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9. The students found their room dirty.
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The mysterious call left him aghast.
What kind of adjective are the underlined words in the following
sentences? Write C for common descriptive, P for proper adjective, N for noun adjective, A for article, Pos for possessives, D for demonstratives, Num for numerals, Ind for indefinites, and Int for interrogatives. _______ 1. What information can be found in the lead? _______ 2. The most important information in a news is found in the lead. _______ 3. Lead contains the controlling idea in any journalistic writing. _______ 4. The lead summarizes the news. _______ 5. The title or headline of a news is actually the gist of the whole news story. _______ 6. _______ 7. A complete summary lead will answer all the six questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? _______ 8. _______ 9. But a lead may answer only some of these six questions. _______ 10. The details of the news come in the succeeding paragraphs. _______ 11. A typical news story can be illustrated by an inverted pyramid. _______ 12. The writers main point is given at the beginning, then details follow. _______ 13._______ 14. The Mindanao massacre involving the Ampatuan clan is one of the biggest news ever published in the newspapers.