Coordinating Adjectives

An adjective describes which part of speech?

• Verb

• Noun

• Adverb

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4C

Identify the adjective: Harry picked up his yellow pencil off the floor.

• yellow

• off

• picked

• floor

Identify the adjective: The happy kids ran out the door to recess.

• happy

• ran

• recess

• door

Identify the adjectives: The bright yellow sun shined down on the earth.

• The and earth

• bright and yellow

• down and earth

• sun and on

John was a nice helpful student.

• Coordinate
• Not coordinate

Texas longhorns are rugged adaptable cattle that are known to be intelligent creatures. 

• Coordinate
• Not coordinate

The quiet respectful class listened to the guest speaker.

• Coordinate

• Non-coordinate

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

He added two black shirts to the cleaning pile.

• Coordinate

• Non-coordinate

If adjectives are coordinate, what should you be able to do with them?

• Flip-flop them in the sentence and it still makes sense

• Leave one out and it still makes sense

• Add another adjective and it still makes sense

Tags

CCSS.L.7.2A

True or False:

Non-coordinate adjectives are separated by a comma.

• True

• False