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Lesson 29 Adjectives

Adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes a noun, or a pronoun.

  • The well-dressed lady is sitting in the Chinese restaurant at the third table.

well-dressed – describes the noun lady

Chinese – describes the noun restaurant

third – describes the noun table

  • He is a smart and nice man.

smart – describes the pronoun he

nice – describes the pronoun he

Other Ways to Say:

bad sad fast good little big
awful gloomy brisk terrific mini enormous
rotten glum dash amazing petite huge
horrible dismal zippy excellent teeny vast
evil somber swift wonderful tiny massive
lame blue quick superb wee oversized
lousy down hasty grand young jumbo
worthless troubled rapid fabulous stubby gigantic
despicable sorrowful hurried delightful skimpy colossal
tired nice very pretty happy
exhausted charming absolutely attractive cheerful
weary kind awfully beautiful blessed
fatigued nifty certainly delightful chipper
sleepy pleasant clearly fine delighted
dog-tired peachy deeply handsome ecstatic
pooped swell greatly darling elated
enervated lovely extremely appealing gleeful
drowsy ducky truly charming joyful

What Says?

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Review

Adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes a noun, or a pronoun.

  • The well-dressed lady is sitting in the Chinese restaurant at the third table.

well-dressed – describes the noun lady

Chinese – describes the noun restaurant

third – describes the noun table

  • He is a smart and nice man.

smart – describes the pronoun he

nice – describes the pronoun he

Practice

Use the box below the sentences to place the adjective(s) and the noun(s) it is describing for each sentence.

  1. Do you prefer red wine or white wine?
  2. The test was not as hard as I thought it would be.
  3. It will take two hours to drive to Bridgewater.
  4. Jenny completed her algebra test.
  5. The pretty girl is waiting.
  6. She is waiting at the Chinese restaurant.
  7. She is sitting at table five in the restaurant.
  8. She is waiting for her swimming instructor.
Adjective Noun it is describing

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