Write 3 sentences describing this picture and circle any describing words you used.

What part of speech are the words that you circled?

Review Last Night’s Homework

• Helping verbs

What does it do:

It is a word that describes a noun or pronoun.

Adjectives slightly change the meanings of these words.

For example:

A house could become a small house or a large, wooden house

What Kind?

new car striped tie

Which One?

this swan every page

How Many?

one hamburger many geese

How Much?

no food little rain

When adjectives modify nouns, they usually come directly before the nouns. However, sometimes they may come after.

Examples: She saw a bright, smiling face.

The room, narrow and dark, frightened us.

Adjectives usually come after a linking verb when they modify pronouns. However, sometimes they may come before.

Examples: They are happy and talkative.

Quiet and sullen, he sat in a corner.

1. Ducks, geese, and swans are aquatic birds.2. All waterfowl swim and float.

3. These birds have webbed feet.

What word do these adjectives modify or describe?

Three common adjectives – the, a, and an – are known as articles. Articles ALWAYS come before the nouns they modify. They answer the question – Which one?

Examples: the canoe

the swan

a pond

an old sweater

Nouns can sometimes be used as adjectives. A noun used as an adjective usually comes directly before another noun and answers the question What kind? or Which one?

Examples:

Noun – shoe

Used as Adjective: a shoe salesperson

(What kind?)

1. As with other members of the waterfowl family, geese gather in large flocks each autumn.2. They travel long distances to spend the winter season in warm climates.

3. While migrating, geese often fly in a wedge formation.

Find the noun being used as an adjective…

A proper adjective is a proper noun used as an adjective or an adjective formed from a proper noun.

Examples:Truman - the Truman libraryFlorida - the Florida wetlandsAmerican – American history

Find the Proper Adjectives:

1. Snow geese live in the Arctic region surround the North Pole.

2. Some spend winters along the Atlantic coast.3. The Canada goose is another popular North

American bird.4. It usually lays its eggs during warm March or

April days.

Compound Adjectives

• Compound adjectives are made up of more than one word.

• Examples: a well-known actress, a freshwater lake

Identifying Adjectives and the Words they Modify

1. A play is a live performance before a real-life audience.

2. The script is the written text that the actors memorize.

3. The director of a Broadway play has a difficult job.

4. The first task of the director is to select the actors for each part.

Exit TicketIdentify the following as nouns, pronouns, verbs, or adjectives (noun acting as adj.; proper adj., article,

or compound adj.)

The (1) Beatles consisted of four (2) musicians in their twenties. Because they (3) were quite poor, they struggled (4) at first. They could not afford music (5) lessons, so they taught themselves to play and sing. They had been (6) playing together for several years (7) before they had their first hit record. They listened to many American (8) recordings, and they added new (9) ideas to their music.