Adjectives

Adjectives

The words that add details to nouns

Here's what adjectives basically do:

• Tell you more about a person, animal, object, and anything else that can be considered as a noun.

• They can be used to describe appearances, smells, tastes, sounds, amounts, ownership, and anything else that comes to mind.

• Usually, adjectives are placed right behind a noun: small cat, angry dolphin, round Hambo.

• But sometimes they can be placed after the nouns: he is sad, the fans are happy, the pancake was burnt.

Here's a few examples:

• He is the fastest runner.

• Black, hot coffee is my favorite drink.

• Hambo's smelly cage needs to be cleaned right away.

• Having loud neighbors makes it difficult for me to sleep.

• I'm pretty sure that's a really expensive watch.

• As you can see, you can use more than adjective for each noun.

Multiple Choice

Which word is an adjective in the following sentence?

"One day, Rudy will become a great goalkeeper."

• one

• become

• great

Multiple Choice

Which word is an adjective in the following sentence?

"We only have a few days before our vacation ends."

• few

• before

• ends

Multiple Choice

Which word is an adjective in the following sentence?

"That pizza was tasty!"

• that

• tasty

• was

Multiple Choice

Which word is an adjective in the following sentence?

"She is happy with the gift you gave her."

• sure

• happy

• her

Open Ended

Can you write a sentence which uses adjectives to describe your Mom?

Open Ended

What about a sentence which uses adjectives to describe your Dad?

Predicative Adjectives

• To put an adjective in front of a noun, you'll need to use linking verbs.

• "is, are, was, were, am, looks, smells" and a bunch more are linking verbs.

• Mimi's fur is white.

• Hambo's body looks round.

• These lesson are too long.

• I am sleepy because I stayed up all night watching football.

• These adjectives are called predicative adjectives.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses the predicative adjective?

• Cats are hungry all the time.

• Hungry cats tend to steal food.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses the predicative adjective?

• A bouquet of flowers would emit wonderful smells.

• This bouquet of flowers smells wonderful.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses the predicative adjective?

• I'll be having one of those gigantic hamburgers.

• Those hamburgers are gigantic!

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses the regular adjective?

• I need to buy a new ruler since mine is bent.

• My bent ruler needs to be replaced immediately.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses the regular adjective?

• That is one terrifying painting.

• That painting is terrifying.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses the regular adjective?

• I am not going outside because it is way too hot.

• It's way too hot outside, so I'm just going to play games in my room.

Open Ended

Can you write a sentence with predicative adjectives to describe Mimi?

Open Ended

Can you write a sentence with predicative adjectives to describe Nero?

What types of words can be used as adjectives?

• Almost anything you can think of, as long as the words used help describe/add detail to a noun.

• Participles can be used as adjectives: running water, rotten apple, burning building, etc.

• Nouns too: sports car, history teacher, tennis shoes, etc.

• Since there are thousands of adjective, we're not going to memorize all of them in this lesson. You'll find more and more of them as you read books, watch TV, listen to songs, play games, and more.

Open Ended

Now here's your final challenge for this lesson:

Write one descriptive paragraph--consisting of at least 4 sentences--about a topic of your choosing. It can be about your friends, family, pets, hobbies, toys, etc. But you'll have to use at least one adjective--either regular or predicative--in each sentence!

And that's the basics of adjectives and how to use them!

Any questions?

Were there any difficult or confusing parts?