Describing Nouns
This word tells what something looks like: red
What is an adjective?
"The cold water splashed."
What is cold?
"The blue bird sings."
What is blue?
"The cat is sleepy."
What is sleepy?
Name three adjectives that describe ice cream.
Example: cold, sweet, creamy
Which word is the adjective? "The fluffy puppy slept."
What is fluffy?
"The monkey is funny."
What is funny?
Choose the attributive adjective.
"The happy girl laughed."
What is happy?
"The soup tastes delicious."
What is delicious?
Fix the sentence: "The puppy fluffy runs."
"The fluffy puppy runs."
Name an adjective that describes pizza.
Examples: cheesy, hot, tasty, delicious
"The bright stars twinkled."
What is bright?
Which sentence has an attributive adjective?
A. The dog is playful. B. The playful dog barked.
What is sentence B?
Which word is the predicative adjective?
"The sky became dark."
What is dark?
Is the adjective attributive or predicative?
"The flowers are colorful."
Predicative
Which word is NOT an adjective? happy, blue, quickly, tall
What is quickly?
"The cookies smell fresh."
What is fresh?
Turn this into an attributive adjective sentence:
"The flower is beautiful."
"The beautiful flower..."
Which sentence uses a predicative adjective?
A. The noisy classroom B. The classroom is noisy.
What is sentence B?
Is the adjective attributive or predicative?
"The colorful flowers bloom."
Attributive
Write a sentence using two adjectives.
Example: "The small brown rabbit hopped."
"The enormous elephant walked slowly."
What is enormous?
Write a sentence using an attributive adjective.
"The shiny bicycle is new."
Write a sentence with a predicative adjective.
"The playground looks clean."
Create one sentence with an attributive adjective and one sentence with a predicative adjective
The twinkling stars were high in the sky (attributive)
The stars were twinkling high in the sky (predicative)