Adjectives
Adjectives add
colour to your
writing
Adjective
Activity
Write down as many adjectives as you can
that describes the picture.
delicious
tasty
aromatic
expensive
colourful
sweet
famous
ancient
mysterious
huge
artistic
starry
wild
fluffy
cute
ugly
speedy
tall
incredible
fake
limpid
dreamlike
peaceful
magnificent
imaginative
silent
wild
fast
stinky
stripy
regular
smelly
Adjective Categories
Powerful Adjectives
SuffixeS
You can make some nouns into adjectives or
adjectives into nouns by adding suffixes (extra
letters at the end of the word). For example, you
can make the noun 'noise' into an adjective by
taking off the 'e' and adding 'y' to make 'noisy'.
Making nouns into adjectives
Making adjectives into nouns
-able
knowledge - knowledgeable
fashion - fashionable
comfort - comfortable
-ce
important - importance
patient - patience
violent - violence
-al
nature - natural
accident - accidental
music -musical
-ity
popular - popularity
formal - formality
regular - regularity
-ous
danger - dangerous
fame - famous
adventure - adventurous
-ness
happy - happiness
lazy - laziness
ruthless - ruthlessness
-y
health - healthy
cream - creamy
mess - messy
-y
difficult - difficulty
modest - modesty
honest - honesty
What Is a Prefix?
A prefix is a word part that is placed in front of a base word. Common
prefixes include pre, bi, and anti. Take a look at the examples below.
• A prefix usually changes the meaning of the base
word.
• Think about the word happy. The prefix un placed in
front of the word happy makes a new word with a
new meaning: unhappy. The prefix un means not so it
changes the meaning of the word happy to not happy.
The Two Most Common Prefixes
• The most common prefixes are un and re. These two prefixes are the
most useful for beginning spellers to learn because they appear
frequently and their meanings are easy to understand and remember.
Un means not (unhappy = not happy) or the reverse of, or opposite of
(as in untie).
Re means again (redo = do again) or back (as in repay).
There are a lot more prefixes, but let’s just start with
a few.
Tips for Adding Prefixes
• Tip 1: The spelling of the base word never changes. Simply add the prefix
to the beginning of the base word, as in the word tricycle.
triangle
bicycle quadrangle
• Tip 2: Be aware that double letters can occur. If you add the
prefix un to natural, both the prefix and the base word retain their
original spelling. The result is unnatural.
• Tip 3: Watch out for prefix look-alikes. Some words contain the same
string of letters as a prefix, but upon closer examination you’ll find that
they are not prefixes. The re in real is not a prefix.
computer
Write the right prefix on the lines:
dis/unable
uncomfortable
uncertain
insecure
uninvited
reassure
inhabit dis/re/co-connect
dis/unlike
mistrust return
impolite
impossible
reopen
disguise
dis/unlike
unhappy
readjust
unknown
disability disagree
refresh
restore
informal impatient
What is an
Do you know any other Affixes?
Let’s see if we can identify the
prefixes, suffixes and base
words below.
painless
enjoyable
decision - decide
replacement
remove
window
preview
inactivity - active
Comparative and Superlative
Adjectives
Video – Comparative and Superlative
Adjectives Rules
Hungry
Starving
Famished
Big
Intensifiers
• Intensifiers are gradable adverbs or adverbial phrases that strengthen
the meaning of other expressions and show emphasis.
• Intensifiers are generally placed before an adjective to make the
adjective stronger.
• Example (no intensifier) – The water is cold.
• Example (with intensifier) – The water is really cold!
The dog barked.
noun and verb
The dog barked loudly.
Noun, verb and adverb – tells you how the verb is done.
• More specific time
• Whose dog
• adjective
Later that morning at 10am, Kitty’s
naughty dog barked loudly at the
grocer’s shop.
The grocer shouted.
Later that morning, the dog barked loudly.
Time link phrase, noun, verb and adverb – TLP tells you when an action happens.
Later that morning, the dog barked loudly at
the grocer’s shop.
Time link phrase, noun, verb, adverb and adverbial phrase – tells you where an action
happens.
What else
could we do to
improve this
sentence?
Connectives
At her birthday
punctuation
she ate a cake the class was boring
She ate a cake.
Last Saturday, she ate a cake.
Last Saturday, she ate a delectable cake.
Last Saturday, she ate a delectable cake
because it was her birthday.
Last Saturday at school, she happily
ate a delectable cake because it was
her fifteenth birthday.
The math class last Saturday was boring because we were exhausted.
Last Saturday, we had a difficult math test because I didn’t review.
The math class at last Saturday was boring because we are tired.
Mary
Last Saturday,we had a difficulty math test,because I didn’t review.
MichelleCao曹楚琪
The playful class is learning about the most boring part of human hirstory.
Alex阿梨克谢
The Math class in Saturday was very boring, because today is a normal weekend!
leohuang
Last Saturday, the endless class was very boring, because there was a hard mathem
atical test.
Luna
At last Tuesday, we have boring math class because we think it’s difficult.
Tedxu
The PE class is boring at last Saturday was very boring,because there’s to many wor
kout.
• Choose a powerful adjective that describes the object.
• Use this as a powerful, single word sentence.
• Repeat your powerful adjective and add another word (a noun or
another adjective) to build a two-word sentence.
• Expand fully to create your third sentence.
• Can you swap your adjective for a synonym?
• For example:
• Delectable.
• Delectable chocolate.
• Delectable chocolate Easter eggs sat in the bowl, waiting for
people to buy and consume them.
leapy
small
loud
Frog
cute
green
slimy
white
What is ___________?
Underground
What is ___________?
What is __________________________
(rhymes with
Older than human history
line above)
hard
expensive and
What is ___________
and __________
ancient
____________?
A _________________.
What’s brown and sticky?
A stick