Adjectives 6th grade

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Adjectives

What are adjectives?

Adjectives are words we use to give qualities to people, animals or things. Now, look at these examples:

He is tall.

Example 1

He is a tall man.

Example 4

She is pretty.

Example 2

She is a pretty girl.

Example 5

They are old.

Example 3

They are old people.

Example 6

Lions are dangerous.

Example 7

Lions are dangerous animals.

Example 8

This house is big.

Example 9

This is a big house.

Example 10

Conclusion 1

We can use the adjective after the verb to be (She is tall.) or before a noun (She is a tall woman).

Conclusion 2

Adjectives have only one form, they are always singular. We say: a tall man - two tall men a pretty girl - two pretty girls an old person - two old people

Tall – short fat-slim-thin beautiful-pretty-handsome-ugly young-old New-old big-small easy-difficult interesting/exciting-boring Hard/difficult-easy expensive-cheap good-bad

Lovable-funny-active-lazy-silly intelligent-serious-shy-grumpy

order of adjectives

When we want to use more than one adjective, there is a specific order. We say: She has got big blue eyes and not blue big eyes. That’s a big black car and not a black big car. To know more about the order of adjectives in a sentence, you can watch the video on the final page.

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