What is an adjective? An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun It was a cold and snowy day in Milwaukee. Adjectives help you see, feel, taste, hear, and smell all the experiences that you read about.

Watch how the sentence below changes when you add adjectives Adjectives help you see, feel, taste, hear, and smell the experiences you read about Watch how the sentence below changes when you add adjectives The students copied the notes. The noisy students copied the long notes.

Adjectives answer the questions: What kind? Blue jeans Which one? Last cupcake How many/how much? Two pumpkins

Describe this picture using as many adjectives as you can think of!!

Proper Adjectives One type of descriptive adjective is called the proper adjective. Proper adjectives are derived from, or come from, proper nouns. This means that they must always be capitalized. Proper adjectives sometimes are formed by adding a suffix to the proper noun.

Examples of Proper Adjectives Proper Noun Proper Adjective America American France French China Chinese Pennsylvania Pennsylvanian

Proper Adjectives Sometime proper nouns don’t change in form at all when they become proper adjectives. Ex. President Kennedy was a good leader. (In this sentence President Kennedy is a person; therefore, he is a noun.) Ex. The Kennedy Library is very large. (in this sentence Kennedy is describing the library; therefore, it is an adjective.)

The Chinese food I ate yesterday made my stomach hurt. adjective noun Chinese comes from the proper noun China.

My teacher played the Mexican hat dance song during our party. We learned about American cowboys in Social Living.

The archeologist uncovered an egyptian mummy. Egyptian When we were at the market, we saw beautiful indian rugs. Indian Some people love to eat cuban food because it is so spicy. Cuban