Adjectives

Adjectives

Everything You Need To Know About Adjectives

What is an Adjective?

• A word that gives information about a noun or pronoun

• An adjective can What Kind, Which One and How Many

Multiple Select

Select ALL the adjectives

• rubber

• He

• seven

• She

• green

Adjectives after Be

• An adjective can come after the word it describes

• This usually happens after an adjective follows the form of the verb be (am/was, are/were, and is/was)

• Example: The sky was gloomy.

• Was is the form of the verb be and gloomy is the adjective.

Open Ended

What is the form of the verb be + the adjective in this sentence:

The wind was cool.

Remember the forms of the verb be are am/was, are/were, and is/was then you just add the adjective.

Ordering Adjectives

• if there is more than one adjective, they must be put in order.

• The order is: number, opinion, size, shape, color, and purpose

• Example: We saw six beautiful giant sharks at the aquarium.

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What is the correct order of adjectives

• size, shape, number, color

• color, size, shape, number

• shape, number, noun, verb

• number, size, shape, color

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What is the adjective?

• long

• old

• small

• tall

Superlative Adjectives

• This adjective compares more than two things, person or places..

• They often end in -est.

• Example: The snail is slowest of them all.

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February is the ... mount of the year.

• shorter
• longest
• shortest
• longer

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My cousine Anna is the ...girl in our family.

• oldest
• older
• younger
• youngest

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The plane is the ... means of transport.

• slowest
• faster
• slower
• fastest

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David is … person in our English class.

• the tallest

• the most tall

• the taller

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That is … road in the entire country!

• most danger

• the most dangerous

• most dangerous

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In my opinion, that is … comedy show on television.

• the funniest

• the funny

• the funnier

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Yesterday was the … day this summer.

• hotest

• hotter

• hottest

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Elephants are … land animals in the world.

• heaviest

• the heavyest

• the heaviest

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I saw … paintings in the world at that museum.

• the most beautiful

• the beautiful

• more beautiful than

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His grandfather is … in his family.

• older than

• the most old

• the oldest

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I had … time of my life when we went to Disneyland last year!

• the goodest

• best

• the best

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Russia is … country in the world.

• big

• the biggest

• the bigest

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Oxigen is __________natural resource.

• cheaper

• more cheap

• the cheapest

• the most cheap

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Antartica is the ___________ place on earth.

• colder

• more cold

• coldest

• most cold

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The CN Tower in Canada was ___________building in the world in 2004.

• taller than

• more tall than

• the tallest

• the most tall