1. ADJECTIVES
What Kind?
Which One?
How Much?
How Many?

2. What is an Adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Basically, an adjective gives more information about a person, place, thing, or idea.
Adjectives answer the following questions about nouns and pronouns:
What kind?
Which one?
How much?
How many?
TIP: Memorize the 4 Questions that Adjectives Answer!

3. Proper and Common Adjectives
Just like nouns, adjectives will either be proper or common.
A proper adjective requires a capital letter.
Examples:
Japanese customs OR special customs
Thanksgiving dinner OR delicious dinner
Hindu beliefs OR religious beliefs
Korean language OR foreign language
Navajo blankets OR snuggly blanket
American flag OR colorful flag

4. Why are Adjectives Awesome?
When you are writing, you can add in adjectives to make your writing more colorful, creative, descriptive, or precise!
Examples:
Boring Sentence: My mom made cookies for dessert.
Interesting Sentence: My kindhearted, thoughtful mom made me five moist, chewy, gooey, chocolatey cookies for my special dessert.
What kind of mom? Kindhearted and thoughtful
What kind of cookies? Moist, chewy, gooey, chocolately
How many cookies? Five
Which dessert? My special dessert

5. Some Examples
Adjectives can be colors, numbers, personality traits, sizes, temperatures, OR any other words that answer one of the key questions (What kind? Which one? How much? How many?).
What Kind?
Which One?
How Much?
How Many?
blue shirt
huge house
scary lady
breezy day
boiling water
gentle dog
full pitcher
entire sky
some essays
much laughter
most classes
no work
sixth grade
these books
other people
any students
that story
dozen roses
five cookies
several presents
one reminder
multiple options

6. Practice Time!! Identify the adjectives in the following sentences.
Several students participated in the challenging relay races on the slippery, wet grass.
The fun activity was difficult for the participants but hilarious for the attentive audience.
Even though it was a gloomy day with bad weather, we sold fifty-two tickets to the event.
The athletic girl in the blue jacket was ready for the big race.