More Things to Know About Adjectives

Summary
This is a review lesson about adjectives and how they are used.

Objectives
• to review the concept of adjectives with definitions and explanations;

• to provide a review page that can be kept for future reference;

• to test students? knowledge and understanding with appropriate activities.

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Adjectives are describing words. They modify nouns by giving more information about them. Adjectives answer the questions:

1. What kind?
2. How many?
3. Which one?

1. Adjectives telling us what kind are easy to find in a sentence. They usually come right before the noun, but if the verb in the sentence is a being verb, like is, are, was, or were, the adjective will come after the noun it describes.

? The yellow sun shone brightly.
The word yellow is the adjective. What kind of sun? Yellow sun.

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