Adjectives and Adverbs

An adjective is a word that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun.

It does this by telling what kind, which one, how many or how much.

Adjectives

Adjective chart

What Kind? Which one (s)?

How many/much?

cute dog seventh grade

three tickets

Spanish town

this book full mug

funny movie

those people

all players

black shoes

any film most work

Ex: A sparkly moon shone in the southern sky.

Ex: The only sound was the loud crackle of the fire.

Examples

Make a T-chart in your notes. Like this…

Adjective Word it modifies

Practice

Fill in the T-Chart using the sentences below.

1.) The forest was bright and quiet.2.) The beautiful bird perched in the short, green tree.3.) Many students travel to the local market.

Practice

Adjective Word it modifies bright quiet forest beautiful bird short green tree many students local market

Practice

The adjectives a, an, and the are articles.

articles

Some words that can stand alone as nouns can also be used to describe nouns and pronouns.

Example: nouns: summer, dooradjectives: summer school, door frame

Nouns or adjectives?

This, that, these, and those are used as adjectives and pronouns.

When they are used to describe a noun or pronoun, they are called demonstrative adjectives.

Demonstrative adjectives

Common adjectives are generally not capitalized.

Proper adjectives are formed from a proper noun and are capitalized.

Examples:Common Adjective: Did you see beautiful

butterflies?Proper Noun: The butterfly is found in Africa.Proper Adjective: The African giant swallowtail is

a large butterfly.

Common and proper adjectives

Change the following proper nouns into proper adjectives. Then, write a sentence

using each.

1.Italy2.Hawaii3.France4.Hollywood5.England6.Japan

Exit ticket

Write a descriptive sentence about snow. Be

sure to consider your five senses!

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