What are adjectives?
Adjectives are descriptive words, like colours and emotions. Adjectives give us more information about nouns, which are people, animals, objects, places and concepts.
Let’s look at some sentences:
1.) The pretty, red bird sits in a big, beautiful tree.
-There are 2 nouns in this sentence. What are they?
-There are 4 adjectives, that tell us more about the nouns. What are they?
2.) My four, old, metal chairs are beside your expensive, new car.
-There are 2 nouns in this sentence. What are they?
-There are 7 adjectives. What are they?
Vocabulary practice:
Colours (New Beginner)
Find the opposite adjectives games (Beginner)
Adjective Synonyms Crossword (Beginner)
Emotions and Exaggeration (Intermediate)
Adjectives Match Up Quiz (Intermediate)
Adjectives of personality – What are the connotations? (High Intermediate/Advanced)
Order of Adjectives:
Order of Adjectives Games (High Beginner/Low intermediate)
Adjectives to Abstract Nouns:
Adjectives to abstract nouns – Watch the interactive video about values (Intermediate/Advanced)
Comparatives and Superlatives:
Comparatives and Superlatives – Explanations, activities and games
Possessive Adjectives:
Possessive Adjectives – Explanations, activities, and quizzes
Turning verbs into adjectives with -ed and -ing:
-Ed or -ing? Bored or boring? – Learn how to use these endings correctly.
Eight adjective suffixes that we use every day:
Adjective Suffixes – Learn how to make adjectives out of verbs and nouns with these suffixes. (Intermediate/Advanced)
