What are Adjectives?

What are Adjectives?

 Jewelry for the noun

Quick Reminders about Nouns

• NAMES a person, place, thing, or idea

• Answers the questions "Who?" or What?" is doing an action 

Open Ended

Type in five examples of a noun.

Adjectives describe (modify) nouns and answers three questions:

• What kind?

• Which one?

• How many?

Multiple Select

"The brown dog ate his food." What adjective describes the dog?

• ate

• food

• brown

Multiple Select

We had a picnic in the beautiful, green park. Which two adjectives describe what kind of park it is?

• beautiful

• picnic

• green

• we

Multiple Choice

Lisa likes to ride fast cars. "FAST" answers which of the following adjective questions?

• Which one?

• How many?

• What kind?

Multiple Choice

The five monkeys jumped on the bed. Which of the following answers the question, "how many?"

• five

• jumped

• bed

• on

Open Ended

Create a sentence using one adjective to describe a noun.

Open Ended

What questions do adjectives answer?