Find 15 new adjectives from a book of your choice and form sentences using them
Answers
Explanation:
Easy to Spot
The green tree is in my backyard.
Skinny dogs are not necessarily healthy.
Giant monsters are hiding under the bed.
Hairless cats look like rats.
These adjectives are incredibly easy to spot because they come right before the nouns that they modify. But they are not always that easy to see.
Complement Linking Verbs
Adjectives can also serve as a compliment to linking verbs. Linking verbs are verbs that derive from “to be,” such as are, is, am, and was. Also, anything describing a sensory experience or state of being can be an adjectival phrase.
That child sure is joyful!
It was so disgusting in my son’s bedroom.
She is the smartest in the class.
Amounts
Adjectives can tell the reader how much or how many of the noun there is.
There are twenty chairs set up for the meeting.
She has four children.
He bought a carton of eggs.
Coordinating Adjectives
Adjectives are “coordinating” if there are more than one, and they both modify the same noun. In order to form a grammatically correct sentence, they require either a comma between them, or the word and.
It was a long, beautiful summer.
We had a fabulous and exciting time on vacation.
It is dank and dreary working in the mines.
Today is a crisp, cool spring day.
Exception!
Don’t make the mistake of immediately assuming that two adjectives that happen to be next to one another are coordinating adjectives. Sometimes an adjective and a noun are so closely linked together that they actually function together as a noun.
Think of it this way. Here are some adjectives that work with the noun to create…yep, you got it…a noun!
cashmere sweater
gold earrings
wooden shed
Now let’s put those into sentences with a coordinating adjective.