1. Adjectives

2. Adjective Adjectives answer: What kind? Which one? How many? How much?
A word used to describe a NOUN or PRONOUN
Adjectives answer:
What kind? Which one?
new car this swan
striped tie every page
How many? How much?
one hamburger no food
many geese little rain

3. Usually adjectives come directly BEFORE the nouns.
Sometimes they come AFTER.
Before: She saw a bright, smiling face.
After: The room, narrow and dark, frightened us.

4. Predicate Adjectives
Adjectives that follow a linking verb and describe the SUBJECT of the sentence. (These should sound familiar!)
The director is imaginative and bold.
Present and past participles may be used as adjectives and predicate adjectives.
The angered families have a meeting.
Romeo and Juliet is exciting and touching.

5. Articles Articles always come BEFORE the noun.
Definite article ~ refers to a specific person, place, or thing
*** only definite article is = the
Indefinite articles ~ point out a type of person, place, or thing – but DO NOT refer to a specific one.
*** only indefinite articles are = a, an

6. A with consonant sounds
Indefinite articles
Use: a before consonant sounds
Use: an before vowel sounds
A with consonant sounds
An with vowel sounds
A yellow hat
An endangered bird
A happy time
An honest person
A one time nesting area
An old map
A unicorn
An uncle

7. Brain Pop
Book 337, 417, 339
worksheet

8. Nouns as Adjectives Answers ~ What Kind? Which One? Nouns
Used as Adjectives
shoe
A shoe salesperson
lion
The lion refuge

9. Proper Adjectives Two types of proper adjectives:
A proper noun used as an adjective
An adjective formed from a proper noun
1. Does not change its form
Proper Nouns
Used as Adjectives
Truman
The Truman library
Florida
Florida wetlands
December
December weather

10. Proper Adjectives formed from Proper Nouns
2. does change its form
Proper Nouns
Proper Adjectives formed from Proper Nouns
America
American history
Victoria
Victorian ideas

11. Compound Adjectives
Most compound adjectives are hyphenated words, while some are combined
Hyphenated
Combined
A well-known actress
A featherweight boxer
A full-time job
A freshwater lake

12. Book 340, 341, 342
Adjective story

13. Demonstrative Adjectives
Points out something and describes nouns by answering the questions … Which one? Which ones?
This that these those
ie. This class went to the zoo.
which class? This class.
Demonstrative Pronoun: points out persons, places, or things. Pronouns stands alone!
Takes the place of the noun in the sentence.
ie. These are biology students.

14. Interrogative Adjectives
Which What Whose
In order for “it” to be an interrogative adjective – there must be a noun after it.
* If it stands alone, then it is an interrogative pronoun.
Adjective:
Which parrot do you think he will choose?
Whose macaw can that be?
What is it?

15. Book 345, 346

16. Comparative & Superlative Adjective
Comparative adjective ~
compares 2 nouns
Add ‘er’
*Which state is bigger Idaho or Wyoming?
Superlative Adjective ~
compares more than 2 nouns
add ‘est’
*Yellowstone is the nation’s largest national park.

17. Comparative & Superlative Adjective
Tall
Taller
Tallest
Smart
Smarter
Smartest
Irregular Adjectives:
Adjective
Comparative
Superlative
Good, Well
Better
Best
Bad
Worse
Worst
Many, Much
More
Most

18. Most 1-syllable adjectives add er (comparative) or est (superlative)
For 2-syllable adjectives add er or est or use more (comparative), most (superlative) or less (comp), least (super.)
Lovely: lovelier, loveliest
Honest: more honest, most honest
For 3 or more syllable adjectives use: more and most or less and least
Difficult: more difficult, most difficult
DO NOT USE MORE OR MOST OR LESS OR LEAST WITH ADJECTIVES ENDING IN ER OR EST!!!!

19. Overheads
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20. Review worksheet
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