Adjectives: What KInd, How Many & Which One

Adjectives

What is an adjective?

Adjectives describe nouns. They answer what kind, how many, or which one.

Multiple Select

What three things does an adjective describe?

• what verb is in the sentence

• what kind

• how many

• what noun is in the sentence

• which one

alert beautiful kind new delicate important green rapid witty young rapid broken famous smooth

Examples:

An adjective describes a noun by indicating what kind.

What kind?

Adjectives

Multiple Select

I went to the store and bought a ________ bicycle.

What adjectives could describe the kind of bicycle you bought?

• new

• twelve

• shiny

• red

four hundreds twelve some enough few all lots dozen several millions half ten all

Examples:

An adjective can describe the quantity or how many you have.

How many?

Adjectives

Multiple Select

I went for a walk on the beach and saw ________ shells in the sand.

What adjectives could describe how many shells you saw?

• a few

• twelve

• millions of

• white

that those first this second last these middle

Examples:

An adjective can describe which one of you have.

Which one?

Adjectives

Multiple Choice

Since I was looking at my cell phone as I walked to the cafeteria, by the time I got there I was __________ in line. Bummer!

What adjective could describe which one where you were in line?

• first

• last

• this

• that

PRACTICE: Adjectives

What is an adjective?

Adjectives describe nouns. They answer what kind, how many, or which one.

Match

Match each adjective with its type.

• What kind?

• How many?

• Which one?

famous

dozen

this

• famous

• dozen

• this

Match

Match each adjective with its type.

• What kind?

• How many?

• Which one?

young

half

first

• young

• half

• first

Match

Match each adjective with its type.

• What kind?

• How many?

• Which one?

serious

some

these

• serious

• some

• these

Match

Match each adjective with its type.

• What kind?

• How many?

• Which one?

green

several

that

• green

• several

• that

PRACTICE: Adjectives

What is an adjective?

Adjectives describe nouns. They answer what kind, how many, or which one.

Multiple Select

Identify the adjectives in the following sentence.

Many flowers grew in the beautiful garden.

• beautiful

• flowers

• many

• garden

Multiple Select

Identify the adjectives in the following sentence.

The first students arrived at school very early.

• early

• very

• first

• students

Multiple Select

Identify the adjectives in the following sentence.

The furry cat was cuddled up on the soft blanket.

• soft

• cat

• furry

• blanket

Multiple Select

Identify the adjectives in the following sentence.

Those squirrels were eating all the seeds in the bird feeder.

• all

• bird feeder

• squirrels

• those

Adjectives

What is an adjective?

Adjectives describe nouns. They answer what kind, how many, or which one.