Name It

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Adjectives
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What is a adjective?

• An adjective modifies a noun.

beach
loud
happy
brown
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Find the adjectives.

• The bald teacher handed out the white papers.

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• The laptop computer has a blue screen and a
  black screen.

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• The big yellow bus went down the wrong road.

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6

• The crazy plane will crash quickly.

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That big bad dog frequently chased the scared
little boys up trees.
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• The young boy is very, very fat.

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• Mom and dad always help me with my English
  homework.

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• The friendly teacher likes to read story books
  and talk a lot.

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• The two doctors visited the sick patient at the
  community hospital.

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• The thin girl did not really like the green boy.

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• The football team won the big game easily!

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• The little brown cat sometimes has bad hair.

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• The happy little green and yellow bug is smiling.

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Order of Adjectives

• When we want to use adjectives to describe many
  characteristics of a noun, put them in a correct
  order.
• Basic order is
• Article Opinion Fact NOUN
• - The happy young little green African insect
  was flying.
• - Three famous American baseball teams joined
  the game.

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• Here is an example with opinion and fact
  adjectives

When we want to use two colour adjectives, we
join them with "and"
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• She was wearing a beautiful long silver and
  yellow Gucci dress.
• She owns an car.

green
European
medium-sized
old
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• 1. Which is the correct order?
• a. a small Canadian thin lady
• b. a Canadian small thin lady
• c. a small thin Canadian lady
• d. a thin small Canadian lady
• 2. Which is the correct order?
• a. a carving steel new knife
• b. a new steel carving knife
• c. a steel new carving knife
• b. a new carving steel knife

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• 3. Which is the correct order?
• a. a red big plastic hat
• b. a big red plastic hat
• c. a plastic big red hat
• d. a bit plastic red hat
• 4. Which is the correct order?
• a. a cotton dirty old tie
• b. a dirty cotton old tie
• c. an old cotton dirty tie
• d. a dirty old cotton tie

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Relative clause Modify Nouns

• Apart from adjectives, we can modify nouns by
  using relative clauses using which/ that to refer
  to the modified noun.
• The cat ate our fish.
• The cat was sleeping.
• The cat that was sleeping ate our fish.

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• Ex. - I told you about the woman.
• - The woman lives next door. (who)
• I told you about the woman who lives next door.
• - The shop manager offered some gifts.
• - We liked the gifts.
• The shop manager offered some gifts which we
  like.

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• Practice Ben lives in an apartment.
  The apartment was old and dirty.
• Sophie met an old friend. The old
  friend was waiting in front of the bar.

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Now use adjectives and relative clauses in your
sentences

• Ex. I saw a dog.
• I saw a friendly dog.
• I saw a friendly old dog.
• I saw a friendly old big dog.
• I saw a friendly old big black dog.
  I saw a friendly old big black bull dog.
• The dog was running in the park. I saw a
  friendly old big black dog which was running in
  the park.

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Jane bought some apple

• red big delicious local round
• The apples were sold by a girl.
• Jane bought some ___________ ________
  __________ ___________ ___________apples
  which ________________________.

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We talked to some men.

• young Australian fat moody three
• They were playing cards in the jail.

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We took a photo of the elephant.

• Asian lovely gray female
  The elephant was walking in the street.

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We have watched a movie.

• Japanese interesting long art
  The movie had a lot of violent scenes.

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Add modifiers to some of the sentences below.

• Katie moved to a _______house. It is a
  ______ ________ ________ house which
  ______________________. The first thing she did
  was going to buy more furniture. She went to a
  _______ ________ shop in the city. After walking
  around for an hour, she decided to buy a
  _________ _________ sofa which __________. Then
  she returned home and worked in the garden. The
  garden was ________.
• She cut a _________ _______ tree which ________
  _________________________. Unfortunately the rain
  poured heavily so she had to get inside the house.