A compound subject contains two or more subjects, joined by and, or, or nor, which share the same verb.

A compound predicate, or compound verb, is the happy issue of two or more verbs that are joined by and, or, but, yet, or nor, and that belong to the same subject.

Descriptive adjectives describe a noun or pronoun, stating what kind of person, place, or thing either one is:

blue blood, bashful poltergeist, portable landscape, inept marauders, innocent onlooker, Turkish wolfhound, mad tea party, sugar-coated speech, Italian sports car, Renaissance man, injured appendage, Shakespearean sonnet, suffering soul, wrong track

He is gorgeous.This is disgusting.You're sweet.It's shaggy.They're spectacular!Are you alone?

Limiting adjectives specify, quantify, or identify the noun presented.

our quesadillassome hanky-pankythose dirty ratsmuch reflectionno troublelittle promise

Limiting adjectives take several different forms: possessive, demonstrative, indefinite, interrogative, and numerical. Definite and indefinite articles can also be limiting adjectives.

Possessive Adjectives:

my shyness, his standoffishness, her apprehension, our shame, their greed, your delusions

Demonstrative Adjectives:this contretemps, those rhapsodies, that samovar, this debutante, those mastodons, that rat

Indefinite Adjectives:any provocationeither floor plan

Interrogative Adjectives:which nodule?whose xenophobia?what quirk?

Numerical Adjectives:one fin, two fangs, six senses, three whiskers, fourth horseman, seventh afterthought, first bra

Articles:an Anglophile, the promontory, a zipper, a welcome onslaught, an aphrodisiac, a codependent guardian angel, the chimera, a feline deus ex machina, the haunted horse