Learning adjectives, and how to use them, English lesson.
Adjectives English lesson
What will I learn from the English lesson adjectives?
During this lesson you will learn what adjectives are and how to use them. You will learn also the adjectives also have oppersites.
What are adjectives?
Adjectives are used to describe nouns. They are words that describe or modify another person, thing, place, or idea in the sentence. They can also describe 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 that they are describing, but not always. In the sentence below, the adjectives in bold
The wooden boat with its lovely blue sail sailed over the murky pond water.
Why are the words in bold adjectives?
Wooden describes boat; lovely and blue describe sail; murky and pond describe water.
The hungry girl has a fresh orange.
Adjective describes nouns
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 policemen never 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
A six-year-old child was having their birthday party in the park today.
A small list of adjectives and the opposite
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Beautiful - ugly |
Good - bad |
Big - small |
Cheap – expensive |
Clean - dirty |
Dangerous - safe |
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Hot – cold |
Easy - difficult |
Angry |
Noisy – quite |
Free |
Sour – sweet |
|
Dry – wet |
Large – small |
Kind |
Old – young |
fresh |
Strong – weak |
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Easy – hard |
Long – short |
Ripe |
Poor – rich |
Important |
Wonderful |
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 hot coffee.
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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