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Welcome to this tutorial.

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Today we're going to talk about proper adjectives.

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Let's get started.

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Remember that an adjective is a word or set of words that modifies In other words describes a noun or

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pronoun.

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Note that adjectives may come before or after the word they modify as in the example over here.

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This is a cute cat the adjective cute modifies or describes the noun cat.

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And it comes before the noun and in the sentence.

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This cat is cute.

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The adjective cute describes the noun cat.

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But note that it comes after the noun

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now proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns and modify nouns and pronouns.

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Have a look at the example below.

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I love Italian culture the word Italian is a proper adjective and it's formed from the proper noun.

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Italy remember that a proper noun is the specific name used for any person place or thing as in Italy.

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Also note that proper adjectives typically look like their original proper nouns but have some sort

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of alternative ending.

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Have a look at the examples below.

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He lives in America.

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America is a proper noun.

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It is the name of the country and in this sentence he likes American holiday.

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American is a proper adjective but it's formed from the proper noun.

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America only the ending is different.

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Note the proper adjectives are derived from proper nouns and so they are capitalized.

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Have a look at the example below when she lived in China.

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Liz eat a lot of Chinese food.

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Note that the proper adjective Chinese is capitalized and it's derived from the proper noun.

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China and when a proper adjective has a prefix the prefix itself is never capitalized.

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However the proper adjective itself is still capitalized.

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Have a look at the example below in pre Columbian America.

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Corn was the only cultivated cereal.

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Note that the prefix pre is not capitalized but the proper adjective Columbian is capitalized

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let's have a look at the table below.

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Now proper adjectives that are derived from proper nouns and end in i e n e n or 8 N Harris follow Italian

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derived from Italy Korean.

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Korea Moroccan Morocco

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improper adjectives that end in i c Icelandic Nordic Hispanic EFC Chinese Japanese Portuguese I Iraqi

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is really Pakistani I asset Danish Finnish Irish.