What is an adjective?

Adjectives are words that nouns.  We use adjectives to make our writing more interesting and to give a mental picture of what something looks like or acts like.

How should we use adjectives?

• Adjectives have to describe a noun
• Adjectives can come before a noun, after a noun, or by themselves
• When they come by themselves we have to use context clues to figure out what they are describing!
  
• Numbers are adjectives too!
  
• Some examples of adjectives are: big, little, tall, happy, dry, blue, two
  

Now you think of some examples of adjectives!
Some adjectives I know are...




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