Name three descriptive adjectives that could be used to describe your favorite food.
Adjectives are words that describe nouns. They can describe how something looks, tastes, smells, sounds, or feels. When writing, descriptive adjectives can help to make your writing more interesting and effective. To practice, try writing a sentence, then adding a descriptive adjective to make it more vivid.
Descriptive Adjectives
Descriptive Adjectives are words that describe nouns or pronouns. Examples include: small, large, happy, sad. Comparative Adjectives are words that compare two nouns or pronouns. Examples include: bigger, smaller, happier, sadder. Superlative Adjectives are words that compare more than two nouns or pronouns. Examples include: biggest, smallest, happiest, saddest.
Concepts:
The most common descriptive adjective in the English language is 'good'. There are over 150,000 descriptive adjectives in the English language. The word 'pulchritudinous' is a descriptive adjective that means 'of great physical beauty'
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Work together in pairs: What is the difference between a descriptive adjective and an adverb?
Work together in pairs: What are three descriptive adjectives that you can use to describe the doughnuts?
Brain break: Draw a flower using only dots instead of lines.
Which of the following is a descriptive adjective?
- Blue
- Run
- Table
- intelligence
- healthy
- typical
What is the descriptive adjective in the sentence 'The sky is clear'?
'Huge' is an example of what type of word?
Which one below belongs to the same group as Enormous, Tiny and Gigantic?
'Beautiful' would be an appropriate descriptive adjective for which noun?
- Sunset
- Computer
- Mathematics