Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Nine, Lesson Five: Unit Review


  1. wire
  2. expire
  3. umpire
  4. inspire
  5. entire
  6. retire
  7. reservation
  8. preserve
  9. protect
  10. county
  1. lookout
  2. forest
  3. timber
  4. lumberjack
  5. fir
  6. cedar
  7. pine
  8. hemlock
  9. redwood
  10. bristlecone
Adjectives

Adjectives describe a noun or a pronoun. They can appear before or after the noun to which they apply.


  Jill has a friend who is very shy.

  Jack has a silly friend.

  Jasper's dog is energetic.

Here are a few more words which are often used as descriptive adjectives.

	beautiful	smelly		tall

	nimble		friendly	funny

	athletic	smart		weird

	strange		horrible	terrible

	tasty		great		flat

	smooth		fuzzy		cold


Homophones

There are lots of homophones in the English language. Remember that homophones are words which are spelled differently, but which sound the same. Here are some more examples:


	blew	blue
	wear	where
	which	witch
	sum	some
	fir	fur
	horse	hoarse
	sore	soar
	nun	none
	won	one
	ate	eight
	write	right
	peek	peak

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