1 Adjectives The sentences/clauses we have discussed so far are very general. We often want to be more specific about things, like which angel, what color book etc. e.g., the first angel gave the black book to little John. The words “first,” “black,” and “little” identify more precisely from among angels (it’s the first angel), books (it’s the black one) and Johns (it’s little John). These modifiers are called “adjectives” and like the nouns they modify, they can be spelt a variety of ways depending