1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.)

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

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

10. 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