DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE:

These types of adjectives add detail or description to the noun.

[In the following examples, the adjective is bold and the noun is underlined.]

• When Tennessee and Connecticut first met in women’s basketball in 1995, it was a nice made-for-TV game between an established power and one on the rise.
  • NICE describes the predicate nominative GAME and ESTABLISHED describes POWER, which is the object of the preposition BETWEEN.
  • Note: In this sentence, ESTABLISHED is also a participle.

• The tall man thought he could reach the top shelf of the bookcase.
  • TALL describes the subject MAN and TOP describes the direct object SHELF.

• After the difficult surgery, the famous doctors to a nap.
  • DIFFICULT modifies the object of the preposition SURGERY and FAMOUS describes the subject DOCTOR.

• A worthwhile rivalry had been born.
  • WORTHWHILE describes the subject RIVALRY.

• Monica said, “Wow, this is a great game.”
  • GREAT describes the predicate nominative GAME.