Adjectives

Adjectives

Adjectives

• Adjectives are words that describe.

• They give more information about nouns.

• Adjectives answer the questions What kind? and How many?

• They often come before the nouns they describe.

Examples

• Fat raindrops bounced off the red umbrella.

• Seven cats slept on the soft couch.

Adjective Practice

Read each sentence. Choose the word that is the adjective.

Multiple Choice

They live in a beautiful house.

• They

• live

• beautiful

• house

Multiple Choice

The young boy helped his father.

• young

• boy

• helped

• father

Multiple Choice

The boy and his dad washed the dirty car.

• dad

• car

• dirty

• washed

Multiple Choice

The children danced to the loud music.

• loud

• children

• danced

• music

Multiple Choice

The prickly porcupine climbed up the tree.

• climbed

• porcupine

• tree

• prickly

Multiple Choice

When walking through the woods, we didn't see the smelly skunk.

• smelly

• skunk

• walking

• through

Multiple Choice

When I saw the tall giraffe, it was eating leaves off of the tree.

• tall

• giraffe

• leaves

• tree

Multiple Choice

The seven cats all slept together in the same bed.

• slept

• seven

• bed

• same

Multiple Choice

I bought the warm jacket from the store because it was cold outside.

• store

• warm

• because

• outside

Multiple Choice

When I woke up, the bright sun was in my eyes.

• eyes

• bright

• woke

• sun

Open Ended

Give an example of an adjective.

Open Ended

Give the definition of an adjective.

Multiple Choice

The young boy helped his father.

• young

• boy

• helped

• father