Adjectives and Adverbs

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Grammar

• Adjectives and Adverbs

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Adjectives

• An adjective is a word that is used to modify a
  noun or a pronoun.
• It does this by telling what kind, which one,
  how many or how much.

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Adjective chart
What Kind? Which one (s)? How many/much?
cute dog seventh grade three tickets
Spanish town this book full mug
funny movie those people all players
black shoes any film most work
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Examples

• Ex A sparkly moon shone in the
• southern sky.
• Ex The only sound was the
• loud crackle of the fire.

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Practice

• Make a T-chart in your notes. Like this
• Adjective Word it modifies

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Practice

• Fill in the T-Chart using the sentences below.
• 1.) The forest was bright and quiet.
• 2.) The beautiful bird perched in the short,
  green
• tree.
• 3.) Many students travel to the local market.

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Practice

• Adjective Word it modifies
• bright
• quiet forest
• beautiful bird
• short
• green tree
• many students
• local market
  
  

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articles

• The adjectives a, an, and the are articles.

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Nouns or adjectives?

• Some words that can stand alone as nouns can also
  be used to describe nouns and pronouns.
• Example
• nouns summer, door
• adjectives summer school, door frame

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Demonstrative adjectives

• This, that, these, and those are used as
  adjectives and pronouns.
• When they are used to describe a noun or pronoun,
  they are called demonstrative adjectives.

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Common and proper adjectives

• Common adjectives are generally not capitalized.
• Proper adjectives are formed from a proper noun
  and are capitalized.
• Examples
• Common Adjective Did you see beautiful
  butterflies?
• Proper Noun The butterfly is found in Africa.
• Proper Adjective The African giant swallowtail
  is a large butterfly.

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Exit ticket

• Change the following proper nouns into proper
  adjectives. Then, write a sentence using each.
• Italy
• Hawaii
• France
• Hollywood
• England
• Japan

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Exit ticket

• Write a descriptive sentence about snow. Be sure
  to consider your five senses!