An adjective is a word that describes a noun, enhancing the detail in writing. Examples of adjectives include 'huge', 'tiny', and 'beautiful', which can modify nouns like 'lion', 'mouse', and 'bird'. The document encourages practice in identifying and choosing appropriate adjectives in sentences.

2. What is an Adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
The word ‘huge’ describes the lion so it is an adjective.
The huge lion growled loudly.
huge

3. Big, Green
Small, Red

4. Long
Short

5. Thin
Fat

6. Weak Strong

7. Can you spot the adjectives in these sentences?
She had black hair and blue eyes.
He stared at the tiny mouse on the floor.
The sparkling star was high in the sky.
blue
tiny
black
sparkling

8. Using Adjectives
We can make our writing more interesting by
adding adjectives to describe the nouns.
The dog was running towards me.
Choose an adjective to describe the dog in the sentence below.
Which adjective would you choose?
huge fierce pretty
Which would make the most sense?
The fierce dog was running towards me.
The pretty dog was running towards me.
The huge dog was running towards me.

9. Using Adjectives
The bird swooped down to catch its prey.
Which adjective best describes the bird?
Which adjective would you choose?
nice powerful beautiful
Which would make the most sense?
The beautiful bird swooped down to catch its prey.
The nice bird swooped down to catch its prey.
The powerful bird swooped down to catch its prey.