Adjectives

1. Adjectives

2. Adjectives • Adjectives are words that describe nouns or pronouns. 1. Many groups of visitors admire the huge new building. 2. Some architects are skillful and creative. 3. The architect created a surprising design.

3. Article or Proper? • Articles = a, an, the • Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns (it always begins with a capital letter) • The animal drinks water. • On my vacation in Italy, I ate only Italian food.

4. Find the adjectives This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting.

5. Find the adjectives He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink; he could scratch himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to use; he could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottlebrush, and his war cry as he scuttled through the long grass was Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!

6. Find the adjectives One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a little wisp of grass floating there and clung to it till he lost his senses. When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun in the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying: “Here’s a dead mongoose. Let’s have a funeral.”

7. Answers One day, a highsummer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a little wisp of grass floating there and clung to it till he lost his senses. When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun in the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying: “Here’s a dead mongoose. Let’s have a funeral.”

8. Homework • Literature book • “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” on pg 18. • Paragraph #7 (“Darzee and his wife….”) • List all the nouns and adjectives in Paragraph #7. Underline the nouns once and write “A” above all adjectives: Example: Darzee and his wife A

9. Homework Answers A A A A • Darzee his wife, the nest, the thick grass, the foot, the bush, a low hiss, a horrid, cold sound, Rikki-tikki, two clear feet. 2. inch, inch, the grass, the head, spread hood, Nag, the big black cobra, he, five feet long, tongue, tail. A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

10. A 3. he, one third, himself, ground, he, a dandelion tuft, the wind, he, Rikki-Tikki, the wicked snake’s eyes, expression, the snake. A A A A A A