Can adjectives only describe nouns and predicates?

Answer 1

In addition to adjectives, articles also describe nouns. The articles are a, an, and the.

A predicate is the verb and the words that relate to that verb. The words that describe the verb are adverbs; adjectives and articles describe nouns that are included in a predicate. Examples:

A dog ran past us. (the article 'a' describes the dog as any dog; the adverb 'past' describes where the dog ran)

The dog ran fast. (the article 'the' describes the dog as a specific dog; the adverb 'fast' describes how the dog ran)

An angry dog barked loudly last night. (the article 'an' describes the dog as any dog; the adjective 'angry' describes the mood of the dog) (the complete predicate is 'barked loudly last night'; the adverb 'loudly' describes how the dog barked; the adjective 'last' describes the noun 'night')

Another group of words that describe nouns are pronoun determiners. The pronoun determiners are: Possessive adjectives: my, your, his, her, their, its.

Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those.

Numeral pronouns: some, any, few, many, none, all.

Distributive pronouns:each, either, none, neither.