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Contributor: Elephango Editors. Lesson ID: 10400
Get ready to bring your writing to life! Learn how adjectives can make your sentences more exciting by describing people, places, and things with fun details. Let your words paint a colorful picture!
Imagine you're a famous painter, but instead of using colors on a canvas, you're using words!
Whenever you add an adjective to your sentence, you paint a picture for your reader. But, without adjectives, your painting would be pretty dull!
Adjectives help you describe everything—people, places, things, and animals—in a way that brings them to life.
Dive into adjectives!
What Are Adjectives?
Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns. A noun can be a person, place, thing, or animal.
Adjectives help make your writing more detailed and interesting by answering questions like these.
What does it look like?
How does it feel?
How does it smell or sound?
What kind of emotions does it have?
Look at some examples.
Without adjectives, these sentences would be pretty dull! Adding descriptive words can make your writing more colorful and fun.
Describe the Party Dogs!
Look at the picture below.
Try to write at least five sentences describing what you see. Use adjectives to talk about their appearance, accessories, and the fun atmosphere.
Be sure to describe how they look, how they might be feeling, and any other details that stand out!
Great job! Look at the examples below to see if you wrote anything similar. The adjectives are in italics.
You are ready for more fun practice in the Got It? section!
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