Adjectives are important! Adjectives can enhance your writing and your understanding of what is read.
Adjectives are used to describe a noun or pronoun. Adjectives only modify nouns. Modify means to "change slightly". For example: when you hear the noun car, a certain picture of a car may come into your mind. However, when you say "a blue car," or "a classic sports-car" the adjectives change the picture slightly. Adjectives answer 4 questions: What kind? Which one? How many? and How much? Adjectives add flavor and description to a noun.
What kind? - new car, striped tie
Which one?- this butterfly, every page
How many? - one hotdog, many pumpkins
How much? - no food, little rain
Adjectives modify nouns, they usually come directly before the nouns/ pronouns, occasionally they come after.
Before: He saw a large, round pumpkin. They are happy and talkative.
After: The room, narrow and dark, frightened us. Quiet and sullen, he sat in a corner.
In your journal rewrite the following sentences (print-pencil). Edit in pen. Underline the adje.ctives, circle the nouns they modify and draw an arrow pointing from each adjective(s) to the noun/pronoun it modifies. Rewrite the corrected sentences in cursive and ink for penmanship
1. A loud, shrill whistle pierced the air.
2. He is handsome and debonair.
3. The ocean, wild and fierce, raged as the blustering winds blew.
4. In her third and four year, she broke the swimming records.
5. That woman had several tickets for the concert.
Adjectives are used to describe a noun or pronoun. Adjectives only modify nouns. Modify means to "change slightly". For example: when you hear the noun car, a certain picture of a car may come into your mind. However, when you say "a blue car," or "a classic sports-car" the adjectives change the picture slightly. Adjectives answer 4 questions: What kind? Which one? How many? and How much? Adjectives add flavor and description to a noun.
What kind? - new car, striped tie
Which one?- this butterfly, every page
How many? - one hotdog, many pumpkins
How much? - no food, little rain
Adjectives modify nouns, they usually come directly before the nouns/ pronouns, occasionally they come after.
Before: He saw a large, round pumpkin. They are happy and talkative.
After: The room, narrow and dark, frightened us. Quiet and sullen, he sat in a corner.
In your journal rewrite the following sentences (print-pencil). Edit in pen. Underline the adje.ctives, circle the nouns they modify and draw an arrow pointing from each adjective(s) to the noun/pronoun it modifies. Rewrite the corrected sentences in cursive and ink for penmanship
1. A loud, shrill whistle pierced the air.
2. He is handsome and debonair.
3. The ocean, wild and fierce, raged as the blustering winds blew.
4. In her third and four year, she broke the swimming records.
5. That woman had several tickets for the concert.