Language Arts Grade Four
Unit Nine, Lesson Three: Adjectives
- wire
- expire
- umpire
- inspire
- entire
- retire
- reservation
- preserve
- protect
- county
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- lookout
- forest
- timber
- lumberjack
- fir
- cedar
- pine
- hemlock
- redwood
- bristlecone
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Adjectives
Adjectives provide the reader with more information about a noun or pronoun.
Consider these examples.
Jill drove the car. (technically "the" is an adjective)
Jill drove the red car. ("red" describes the color of the car)
Jill drove the fast, red car. ("fast" is also an adjective)
Words like the, a, an, and some are all adjectives, but we will ignore these
adjectives in this lesson and stick to just the descriptive adjectives.
Descriptive adjectives are words like tall, mean, ugly, green, smelly, or
heavy which give us descriptive information about the noun (or pronoun)
which they apply to.
The mean cat ate all the cat food.
A mangy dog walked past our yard.
My canary loves to eat slimey worms.
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