Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Eighteen, Lesson Two: Adjectives and Pronouns

  1. sample
  2. canyon
  3. leader
  4. creek
  5. nickel
  6. process
  7. identity
  8. reshape
  9. deposit
  10. freeze
  1. thaw
  2. election
  3. landslide
  4. volcanic
  5. mayor
  6. governor
  7. county
  8. represent
  9. agency
  10. seat
Adjectives and Pronouns

Adjectives are words which are used to describe a noun in some way. Here are some sentences with the nouns underlined. 


	Sam caught a green toad.

	Jill swallowed a large pill.

	Jane fed a hungry buffalo.
Adjectives can take three forms: 

	Regular			Comparative			Superlative
   

	green			greener				greenest
	large			larger				largest
	hungry			hungrier			hungriest
	mean			meaner				meanest
	cold			colder				coldest
For many adjectives the comparative form is made by adding -er and the superlative form is made by adding -est. Other adjectives cannot be modified this way and the comparative is formed by using more (as in "more enormous") and the superlative is formed by using most (as in "most enormous").

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