Class 5-1: Adjectives

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Fixing a toilet is not the easiest of tasks.

Adjectives modify or describe nouns. The adjective’s job is to give more information about the noun or pronoun.

Rules:

An adjective cannot be singular or plural.

The letter s” is never added to the end of an adjective.

Examples:

beautiful

friendly

stupid

weird

hungry

tired

hot

shy

lazy

bad

Sample Sentences:

Correct: He is a bad driver. Incorrect: He is a bads driver.

Correct: It looks cold outside. Incorrect: It looks  colds outside.

Exercise

important helpful few tallest boiling
careful embarrassed best shallow angry

Exercise 1: Fill in each blank with an adjective that makes sense.

1.  When I asked Jessica for assistance, she was not very helpful.

2.  I was so ________________ when my dad started singing at the grocery store!

3.  Matt is the ________________ boy in the entire school.

4.  It is ________________ to read all of the instructions before beginning the assignment.

5.  ________________ people can recite the entire Preamble of the Constitution.

6.  Once the water is ________________, you can add the spaghetti.

7.  Sheila is better is than I am at playing the piano, but I think Mary is ________________.

8.  Since I can’t swim, I stay in the ________________ end of the pool.

9.  I am ________________ that I wasn’t invited to the party.

10.  Be ________________ what you wish for.