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Modifiers enhance sentence meaning by adding details and clarifying facts. They can pre-modify or post-modify nouns and verbs using various forms such as adjectives, adverbs, and participles. The document also explains different types of modifiers, including determiners, intensifiers, and appositives, with examples for clarity.

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Modifiers R

Modifiers enhance sentence meaning by adding details and clarifying facts. They can pre-modify or post-modify nouns and verbs using various forms such as adjectives, adverbs, and participles. The document also explains different types of modifiers, including determiners, intensifiers, and appositives, with examples for clarity.

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Modifiers

❑ Modifiers are words that modify their sentences’ meanings by adding details and clarifying
facts or by specifying people, events or objects.

 Pre-modify the noun - Adjectives/ Noun-adjectives/ Determiners /Participles


 Post-modify the noun - Appositives/ Participle phrases/ Adjective clause/ Prepositional phrases
 (Pre+ Post) -modify the adjective - Intensifiers/ Adverbs
 Pre-modify the verb - Adverbs
 Post-modify the verb - Adverbs/ Adverbial phrases (Infinitive/ prepositional/ Participle)

 Adjectives- Words that provide qualities, quantity, or characteristics of a noun, such as


rotten, fresh, ecstatic, honest, mortified, egregious, charming, pretty, repulsive, etc.

 Noun-adjectives- Two nouns working as a single noun. (Summer vacation, wristwatch, tree
plantation, football match, college teacher, Banayan tree, book fair, etc.)

 Participle- 1. Present participle - Ving


2. Past participle - V3
3. Perfect participle - Having + V3
4. Participle phrase - participle + words

 Intensifier- Too, So, Very, extremely, absolutely, completely, greatly, really, quite, pretty.

 Infinitive- to+ v1 (to go, to watch, to know, to write)


 Infinitive phrase – to + v1 + words (to make acquaintance, to start speaking in English)

 Determiners-

Article A, An, The

Possessive My, our, your, her, his, ones, its, their, whose

Demonstrative This, that, these, those

Distributive Each, every, either, neither

some, many, few, much, a little, a lot of, several, numerous, no,
Quantifier any, most, enough ............ One, two, hundred............ First
second, third, etc....
 Appositives/ case in apposition:

1. My brother, a skilled programmer, created an app.


2. Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, struggled against racism.
3. Robert Bruce, the king of Scotland, fought against the English several times.

 Relative clause:
1. My friend, who lives nearby, is coming over.
2. My car, which is ten years old, still runs great.
3. Mr. Smith, who is our new principal, is very kind.

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