Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Thirteen, Lesson Two: Proper Adjectives

  1. hard
  2. burden
  3. bird
  4. third
  5. sword
  6. root
  7. stem
  8. leave
  9. tube
  10. vascular
  1. another
  2. different
  3. because
  4. something
  5. important
  6. continent
  7. connect
  8. railroad
  9. golden
  10. spike
Proper Adjectives

A proper adjective is a proper noun used as an adjective. Here are a few examples: 


  Jill loves Mexican food.

  Jack bought some Alaskan crab at the market.

  The dancers wore Hawaiian costumes.
Remember that adjectives describe something about the noun they modify. So although we could say: 

  Jill loves food.
and have a perfectly meaningful sentence. The sentence: 

  Jill loves Mexican food.
provides us with more information. Here are a few more examples: 

  The French mineral water is supposed to be healthy.

  My friend has a case of the Asian flu.

  Jane owns an African thumb piano.

Click here to go to next page