Coordinating Adjectives

An adjective describes which part of speech?

• Verb

• Noun

• Adverb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

What is the purpose of using adjectives?

• To make a sentence longer

• To create flow from sentence to sentence

• To add description and detail

• To make a sentence more difficult

Identify the adjective: Harry picked up his yellow pencil off the floor.

• yellow

• off

• picked

• floor

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

Identify the adjective: The small baby crawled to his mother.

• The

• mother

• his

• small

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

Identify the adjective: The happy kids ran out the door to recess.

• happy

• ran

• recess

• door

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

Identify the adjectives: The bright yellow sun shined down on the earth.

• The and earth

• bright and yellow

• down and earth

• sun and on

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

Identify the adjectives: The large elephant chased the quick cheetah across the field.

• elephant and cheetah

• The and field

• large and quick

• field and cheetah

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

Identify the adjective: How do you like my new glasses?

• How

• you

• new

• glasses

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

Do coordinating adjectives get a comma or no comma?

• comma

• no comma

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What tests can you use to tell if two back-to-back adjectives are coordinating and therefore need a comma between them?

• you can flip the order of the adjectives and they still make sense

• you can put the word "and" between them and it makes sense

• you can squint at the words and still read them