Adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes somebody or

something.

An adjective can appear before or after the noun.

Adjectives

Identify the adjectives in the following passage.

Adjectives

The sun shone brightly on the joyful children playing in the park. Contented mums relaxed in small groups after clearing the debris left after the picnics – squashed tomatoes, greasy crisp packets, crumbled biscuits and lemonade, now gone flat. Somewhere a carefree blackbird sang delightedly.

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Adjectives

Alter the sense of the passage by changing the adjectives – if the

adjective is positive, change it to a negative one, and so on.

Adjectives

The sun shone brightly on the joyful children playing in the park. Contented mums relaxed in small groups after clearing the debris left after the picnics – squashed tomatoes, greasy crisp packets, crumbled biscuits and lemonade, now gone flat. Somewhere a carefree blackbird sang delightedly.

Adjectives

Have fun with adjectives, but be careful, too many are just ugly!

On a dark, steep, craggy hillside stood an old, abandoned, creepy,

haunted house.