What are adjectives?
What do adjectives modify or describe?
Nouns / Pronouns
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
Some rooms, small and bright, are empty.
1. Some
2. Small
3. Bright
4. Empty
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
Robbie juggled five, red balloons at the exciting circus. (3)
1. Five
2. Red
3. Exciting
What is a compound sentence?
2 complete sentences combined into 1 sentence using a comma and a FANBOYS.
What are the adjectives? What are they describing?
Three cars were involved in the horrible accident.
Adjectives: three, horrible
Describing: three-cars, horrible-accident
What can adjectives change in a sentence?
Adjectives can change the meaning of a whole sentence.
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
Another bike, pretty and fast, has wide tires.
1. Another
2. Pretty
3. Fast
4. Wide
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
Leslie wore a beautiful dress to the elegant ball. (2)
1. Beautiful
2. Elegant
What is a complex sentence?
A independent clause and a dependent clause combined together using a subordinating conjunction. If the conjunction is in the beginning, you need a comma. If the conjunction is in the middle, you do not need a comma.
What are the adjectives? What are they describing?
He drives a bright, red car that was expensive.
Adjectives: bright, red, that, expensive
Describing: car
What are the 3 types of questions that can help you identify adjectives?
1. What Kind?
2. How Many?
3. Which One?
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
These bikes, shiny and bright, have different features.
1. These
2. Shiny
3. Bright
4. Different
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
The walls are painted an unusual, faded green color. (3)
1. Unusual
2. Faded
3. Green
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Since the tall boy was late to school, he got detention.
1. Complex Sentence
2. Adjective: tall
What are the adjectives? What are they describing?
The driver who drove me to the busy airport was friendly.
Adjectives: busy, friendly.
Describing: busy-airport, friendly-driver
True or False: Adjectives describe / modify nouns and verbs.
False. Adjectives describe / modify nouns or pronouns.
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
Keith held his Yankees hat in the brisk, cold wind.
1. Yankees
2. Brisk
3. Cold
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
Does this tri-colored bike have thirty speeds? (3)
1. This
2. Tri-colored
3. Thirty
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The girl wore a green beautiful dress, and the boy wore a sharp looking black suit.
1. Compound
2. Adjectives: green, beautiful, sharp, black
What are the adjectives? What are they describing?
Those old shoes need to be replaced with new shoes.
Adjectives: those, old, new
Describing: shoes
True or False: Adjectives are action words.
False.
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
The blue van drove down that wet, slick road.
1. Blue
2. Wet
3. Slick
4. That
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
Little electric lights shine through clear windows. (3)
1. Little
2. Electric
3. Clear
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The four girls went to their softball game early because they wanted to defeat the number one seed.
1. Complex
2. Adjectives: four, softball, number one
What are the adjectives? What are they describing?
The fluffy dog ran outside and greeted the friendly people.
Adjectives: fluffy, friendly
Describing: fluffy-dog, friendly-people