Adjective

Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The Articles — a, an, and the — are adjectives.

·         the tall professor

·         the lugubrious lieutenant

·         a solid commitment

·         a month's pay

·         a six-year-old child

·         the unhappiest, richest man

If a group of words containing a subject and verb acts as an adjective, it is called an Adjective Clause. My sister, who is much older than I am, is an engineer. If an adjective clause is stripped of its subject and verb, the resulting modifier becomes an Adjective Phrase: He is the man who is keeping my family in the poorhouse.