Lesson 4 — Activity 1: Adding Adjectives


Adjectives make sentences clearer and more interesting.
You know that nouns and verbs are very important when you want to communicate ideas. But including other parts of speech will make your writing or speaking more interesting.

A part of speech called an adjective makes sentences clearer and easier to understand. They also make sentences much more descriptive.

Adjectives are:
  • words that describe a noun

Here are some examples of adjectives used in sentences:
  • The shy child gave his favourite teacher a beautiful gift.
  • The surprised teacher smiled and hugged the pleased child.
  • The other students looked at the heart-shaped box of chocolates.
  • The generous teacher shared the delicious chocolates with the excited class.


You can see that each of the underlined words describes the noun that follows it. In English, adjectives are almost always placed before the nouns they describe.



Think about how the last sentence would sound if you didn’t use any adjectives.

  • The teacher shared the chocolates with the class.

The basic information is the same, but it is much more interesting to add adjectives. They also add more information and more emotion to the writing.



Extra Help: Click here for a list of all kinds of adjectives.





If you'd like to play a game of Adjective Hangman, click here.





Go to the next page to try a Self-check Activity on identifying adjectives.