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    Grammar Guide
    Wow!  Thanks for all the replies on week 1!  Ready for Week 2 of the Grammar Guide?  This week is Back to Basics: Adjectives

    An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun to give more information about a person, place, or thing.
    Adjectives answer such things as:  which one? what kind? how many?
    There are few different kinds of adjectives:
    Articles Can be definite or indefinite and they point out or refer to a person, place, or thing Definite article: the Example : the book Indefinite article: a, an Example: a book Demonstrative Emphasizes the importance of the person, place, or thing (always followed by the noun/pronoun) Examples: this, that, these, those Indefinite Used to describe a group including an unknown number Examples: many, less, neither, some Possessive Describes who has or owns something Examples: my, your, his, her, its, our, their Interrogative Begins a question ❓ Examples: what, which, whose Proper Formed from a proper noun and requires a capital letter Examples: French pastries, Mexican tacos, Japanese animation And there you have it! Next week we jump into the active world of verbs.  Let us know what you think below and if you want to play around with the home game, give an adjective that isn't used often.
    References: Kern, Jara. (2020). The Infographic Guide to Grammar. Adams Media Venolia, Jan. (2001). Write Right! (4th ed.). Ten Speed Press
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    Grammar Guide
    Welcome to a brand new weekly writing feature: Grammar Guide.
    If you are anything like me, you have probably not put much thought into the structure of language since you first learned it in the early days of your education.  (What used to be called grammar school).  As an adult now playing in the writing space, it has become a more pressing concern.  Understanding how things go together makes it easier to bend things to your will.  If you don't remember the terms Interrogatives, Articles, Subordinating Conjunctions, Participles (and when they can and can't dangle), or the good old Oxford Comma, then this is the place you should be.
    But to get that jumble we have to build a solid base.  And the base starts with the humble noun.
    What is a noun?
    This is the simple one of course:
    A Person: 👦
    A Place: 🏖️
    A Thing: 🚲
    An Idea: 💡
    A Noun is a label for a person, place, thing, or idea.  A noun can perform the action in a sentence or is be acted upon in a sentence.
    There are some different types of nouns as well:
    Common Noun- nonspecific person, place or thing such as city Proper Noun- Specific person, place or thing such as New York City Concrete Noun - a noun you can experience with your senses such as music or fog Abstract Noun- a noun that is an idea, feeling or a state of being such as bravery, or exhaustion Irregular Noun- a noun that has a plural with an irregular spelling other an -s or -es such as scissors, mice, or thieves.  Count Noun- a noun you can count such as bike or coat Non-Count Noun- a noun you can't count such as food or snow Collective Noun- a noun that represents a collection or group such as a pride or a herd Possessive Noun- a noun used to show ownership such as dad's truck. Attributive Noun- a noun acting as an adjective to another noun such as bacon in bacon cheeseburger. Bacon is an attributive noun modifying cheeseburger. And there you have it.  Next week we jump into the exciting world of adjectives.  Let us know what you think below and if you want to play around with the home game, give an example of each of the different types of nouns below. This week is an easy exercise, but these get tougher as you go along. (Such as examples of subordinate clauses or predicate nominatives)
    References: Kern, Jara. (2020). The Infographic Guide to Grammar. Adams Media Venolia, Jan. (2001). Write Right! (4th ed.). Ten Speed Press
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