GRAMMAR: MONDAY

The Wonderful World of Adjectives

Learning Targets

I can define and identify adjectives. I can identify the five subclasses of

determiners. I can identify the different degrees of

adjectives. Positive, Comparative, Superlative

I can recite this weeks vocabulary words and their definitions.

Adjective

An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun.

Examples: the tall professor the mournful lieutenant a solid commitment

The Articles

Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.

The Articles — a, an, and the — are adjectives.

Examples: a month's pay a six-year-old child the unhappiest, richest man

Practice

Copy down the adjectives…

The brown dog slept until Tuesday.

The wet and cold snow was all over Suzy’s jacket.

The big, red truck is stuck in the muddy road.

Four people went to the small meeting.

Answers

The brown dog slept until Tuesday.

The wet and cold snow was all over Suzy’s jacket.

The big, red truck is stuck in the muddy road.

Four people went to the small meeting.

Vocabulary

Syntax: arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements

Tiered: steps or levels

Suburbia: the suburbs of a city

Inconspicuous: not noticeable or unremarkable

Demerit: offense or a quality that deserves blame or lacks merit.

GRAMMAR: TUESDAY

Learning Targets I can define and identify adjectives. I can identify the five subclasses of

determiners. I can identify the different degrees of

adjectives. Positive, Comparative, Superlative

I can recite this weeks vocabulary words and their definitions.

Review

What is an adjective?

What are the articles?

The Pair Test

A simple way to identify modifying adjectives is to pair up each adjective, one at a time, with the noun it modifies.

Example: I ordered the special deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza.

the pizza deep-dish pizzaspecial pizza Chicago-style pizza

We can pair up each adjective with the noun pizza; and this test shows that there are four separate adjectives modifying pizza.

Practice

Use the Pair Test to find the adjectives in these sentences…

Sue wore the baggy blue, Rocker Revival jeans.

An old sun-burned man was leaning against the rickety weathered fence.

Answers

Sue wore the baggy blue, Rocker Revival jeans.

Baggy jeans Rocker Revival jeansBlue jeans

An old sun-burned man was leaning against the rickety weathered fence.

old man rickety fencesun-burned man weathered

fence

REMINDER

VOCABULARY TEST IS ON FRIDAY!!!

GRAMMAR: WEDNESDAY

Learning Targets I can define and identify adjectives. I can identify the five subclasses of

determiners. I can identify the different degrees of

adjectives. Positive, Comparative, Superlative

I can recite this weeks vocabulary words and their definitions.

Determiners

Determiners are a group or modifiers that (with the excepting of number words and quantifiers) are mutually exclusive; that is, only a single determiner modifies any one noun.

Example: the and a are both determiners, but they are mutually exclusive. We can say the book or a book, but we can never say the a book or a the book.

Determiners

Articles: the; a; and an Demonstratives: this, that, these,

those Number words:

Cardinal numbers: one, two, three,… Ordinal numbers: first, second, third,…plus

other words indicating order: first, last, (Note: Ordinal number words can be combine with the)

Possessives: Nouns: John’s, Mary’s,… Pronouns: my, your, his, her, its, our, their

Quantifiers: some, much, many, several,…

Practice

Article (Art) Demonstrative (Dem) Number word (#) Possessive (Poss) Quantifier (Q).

Underline each determiner (adjective) in the following sentences, indicating which subclasses the determiner belongs to.

Practice

0. I took the first bus that came by. Art #

1. There were several messages on our answering machine.

2. This test will cover the last chapter.

3. I left my wallet at home.

4. All roads lead to Rome.

Answers

1. There were several messages on our answering machine.

Q Poss

2. This test will cover the last chapter.

Dem Art #

3. I left my wallet at home.

Poss

4. All roads lead to Rome.

Q

REMINDER

VOCABULARY TEST IS ON FRIDAY!!!

GRAMMAR: THURSDAY

Learning Targets I can define and identify adjectives. I can identify the five subclasses of

determiners. I can identify the different degrees of

adjectives. Positive, Comparative, Superlative

I can recite this weeks vocabulary words and their definitions.

Degrees of Adjectives

Positive (base form) , Comparative, and Superlative (actually, only the comparative and superlative show degrees.)

We use the comparative for comparing two things and the superlative for comparing three or more things.

Degrees of Adjectives

Notice that the word than frequently accompanies the comparative and the word the precedes the superlative.

The suffixes -er and -est are used to form most comparatives and superlatives.

Although we need -ier and -iest when a two-syllable adjective ends in y (happier and happiest); otherwise we use more and most when an adjective has more than one syllable.

Degrees

Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the comparative and superlative degrees…

Positive Comparative Superlative

rich richer richest

love lovely lovelier

beautiful more beautiful most beautiful

Irregular Forms

Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms

good better best

bad worse worst

little less least

muchmanysome

more most

far further furthest

Practice

REMINDER

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY TEST TOMORROW!

Grammar and Vocabulary Test

HALF SHEET OF PAPER

NAME

NUMBER 1-3 (WITH SPACE) ON FRONT

NUMBER 1-5 ON BACK

Grammar Test

1. Define and give an example of an adjective.

2. Underline the adjectives…

a) There were ninety-nine containers on the barge.

b) I ordered some coffee and the last piece of pie.

3. Give the comparative and superlative form…

evil, sharp, sleepy, and sweet

Vocabulary Test

1. Tiered

2. Suburbia

3. Inconspicuous

4. Demerit

5. ??????

A. offense or a quality that deserves blame or lacks merit.

B. arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements

C. steps or levels

D. not noticeable or unremarkable

E. the suburbs of a city

Grammar Test Answers

1. Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence/ or modifies a noun or a pronoun.

2. Underlining adjectives…a) There were ninety-nine containers on the barge.

b) I ordered some coffee and the last piece of pie.

3. evil more evil most evilsharp sharper sharpestsleepy sleepier sleepiestsweet sweeter sweetest

Vocabulary Answers

1. C2. E3. D4. A5. B, Syntax