1. Learning adjectives,and how to use them, English lesson.
Adjectives English lesson
What will I learn from the English lesson adjectives?
What are adjectives?
Adjectives are used to describe nouns. They are wordsthat describe or modify another person, thing,
place, or ideain the sentence.They can alsodescribe pronouns, which are words that stand in for
nouns (click on the link for the lesson on nouns). Adjectives most of the time come before the word,
they are used to describe nouns.
Adjectives come in front of nouns thatthey aredescribing, but not always. In the sentence below, the
adjectives in bold
The woodenboat with itslovely bluesail sailed over the murky pond water.
Why are the words in bold adjectives?
Woodendescribes boat; lovely and bluedescribe sail; murky and pond describe water.
The hungrygirl has a fresh orange.
An Adjective describes nouns. Adjectives “modify" nouns. The word "modify" means "change a
little." Adjectives give a little different meaning to a noun: cold food, hot good, nice food, bad food.
More examples
Mr Bean was talking to the tall professor.
The lazy policemennever left the car so the robbers got away.
A solid commitment was made by the children to raise money for charity.
A month’s pay is a lot go money
Asix-year-old child was having their birthday party in the park today.
A small list of adjectives and the opposite
Beautiful - ugly Good - bad Big - small Cheap – expensive Clean - dirty Dangerous - safe
Hot – cold Easy - difficult Angry Noisy – quite Free Sour – sweet
Dry – wet Large – small Kind Old – young fresh Strong – weak
Easy – hard Long – short Ripe Poor – rich Important Wonderful
2. Find the ADJECTIVES in the sentences and identify the nouns they modify.
Copy and write the following sentences on a piece of paper and try find the adjectives and noun.
We were sitting in the kitchen drinking some hotcoffee.
Mrs Bean is a wise woman.
English is not my native language, but I love learning English.
The busy waiter poured coffee into the empty beaker
A young man carried their heavy suitcase for Mr and Mrs Bean.
I had to sit in an uncomfortable chair at the football match.
There is international news on the front page of the newspaper.
My mum is a wonderful lady.
A list of adjectives exercise
Copy and write the first list below and try to find the opposite adjective from the second list, use the
2 examples to help you.
Adjective Opposite
1) Good Bad Closed
2) Fat New
3) Big Poor
4) Tall Bad
5) Full Dry
6) Young Slow
7) Open Short
8) Wet Thin
9) Hot Low
10) Old Cold
11) Happy Empty
12) Fast Soft
13) High Small
14) Rich Sad
15) Hard soft Old
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