Now let's review the use of proper adjectives and practice a bit.
Remember the reuse proper adjectives to modify nouns and pronouns read the following sentence and fill
in the blanks using the appropriate proper adjective.
I have a lot of China and Korea friends.
I have a lot of Chinese and Korean friends.
Note the proper adjectives are derived from proper nouns and so they typically look like their original
proper nouns but have some sort of alternative ending with the following sentence and fill in the blank
using the appropriate proper adjective Peter is fond of Scotland.
Scotland is a proper noun.
He has been to many cities.
He has been to many Scottish cities
remember the proper adjectives are capitalized as they are derived from proper nouns.
Have a look at the following sentence and fill in the blank using the appropriate proper adjective to
Drama Club performed the Shakespeare play
Shakespearean play.
Also remember the when a proper adjective has a prefix the prefix itself is never capitalized with the
following sentence and fill in the blank using the appropriate proper adjective.
There was a steep rise in anti-Semitic incidents worldwide at that time.
Note that we use the most common endings for nationalities such as I N E N A N I C E C i i is said to
form proper adjectives with the following proper nouns and provide the appropriate proper adjective
Russia Russian Poland Polish Iceland Icelandic Saudi Arabia Saudi Lebanon Lebanese Turkey Turkish Queen
Ukrainian Vietnam Vietnamese United Arab Emirates Emirati Spain Hispanic.