XII GRAMMAR NOTES

Welcome to XII Grammar Notes. This page provides simple grammar notes for Higher Secondary students to improve their English and prepare well for exams.

 ADJECTIVE(Page 30)
Adjectives are words that describe or modify other words, making your writing and speaking much more specific, and a whole lot more interesting. Words like small, blue, and sharp are descriptive, and they are all examples of adjectives. Because adjectives are used to identify or quantify individual people and unique things, they are usually positioned before the noun or pronoun that they modify. Some sentences contain multiple adjectives.

Adjective Clauses(Page 31)

Adjective clauses do not change the basic meaning of the sentence. In some cases, when they provide more information into a sentence, they need to be set off with commas. Here are several examples of sentences with the adjective clauses underlined:

 Pizza, which most people love, is not very healthy.

 The people whose names are on the list will go to camp.

 Grandpa remembers the old days when there was no television.

 Fruit that is grown organically is expensive.

 Students who are intelligent get good grades.

 Eco-friendly cars that run on electricity save gas.

 I know someone whose father served in World War II.

 The kids who were called first will have the best chance of getting a seat.

 I enjoy telling people about Janet Evanovich whose latest book was fantastic.

 The people waiting all night outside the Apple store are trying to purchase a new

iPhone.

 "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead." -

Albert Einstein

Adjectival Phrase(Page 31)

An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase that tells us something about the noun it

is modifying. The head (principal) word in an adjective phrase will be an adjective. In the

examples below, the adjective phrase is shaded and the head word (i.e., the adjective) is in

bold:

 These are unbelievably expensive shoes.

(In this example, the head adjective ends the adjective phrase.)

 Sarah was fairly bored with you.

 She had extremely menacing eyes.

 The extremely tired lioness is losing patience with her overly enthusiastic cub.

 My mother was fairly unhappy with the service.

(In this example, the head adjective is in the middle of the adjective phrase.)