What colour are these apples?

1. Green Apples

2.
Red Apples
 Hi kids! My name is Tim.
I have a red, juicy apple.
It is sweet, crisp and healthy.
Would you like to taste it ?
I have a red, juicy apple. It is sweet,
crisp and healthy.

 red
 juicy
 sweet Adjectives
 crisp
 healthy
 Noun
I have a red, juicy apple It is sweet,
crisp and healthy.

Adjectives
The job of an adjective is
 red to describe a noun. Here
juicy the noun is an apple.
 sweet Have more than one job
 crisp
 healthy
Shape:

rectangle

triangle

circle
Colour:

ORANGE RED

GREEN PURPLE
Size:

Small Big
 Exercise 1
A. Underline the correct adjectives in brackets.

1. The moon is (round/rectangular).

2. KLCC is a (tall/short) building.
3. The sunflower is (blue/yellow)
4. A pebble is a (large/small) stone.
5. You must stop your car if the traffic lights change to (red/green).
6. I cannot carry this box because it is too (small/big).
7. On a clear day, the sky is usually (blue/black).
8. Mary could not put the round peg into the (round/square) hole.
 Limiting Adjectives

“Don’t eat those

cookies”
“Don’t eat those
cookies”
“Don’t eat those
cookies”
Limiting Adjectives Even though the word
those is not describing the
word ‘cookies’, it is still an
adjective because it is
“Don’t eat those
cookies” giving information about a
noun.

The word those is limiting

us to which cookies to
focus on.
Don’t eat apples

worm

Don’t eat that apple.

 Limiting Adjectives

1. “Don’t eat apples”

2. “Don’t eat that apple”

1. Never eat another apple.

2. Don’t eat one specific apple.

 Limiting Adjectives
When we see words like
Every student must wear white shoes to
- Every school
- Some Some students can wear black shoes
- That That student is wearing white shoes.
- Those Those students are wearing black shoes.
- This This is my pair of white shoes.

It’s like we’re seeing in a

special pair of glasses
that help limit our
attention to a SPECIFIC
noun.
 Comparative Adjectives

Fred and Liam are tall boys.

What is the adjective in this sentence and who are they

describing?

The adjective is ‘tall’

Fred and Liam are tall boys.

 Remember!
A noun is a person, place , animal or thing.
Nouns

Fred and Liam are tall girls.

 Fred is taller.

What is the adjective in this sentence and who are they

describing?
The adjective is ‘taller’. It is describing Fred.

Adding – er is to compare TWO nouns

The word taller is comparing Fred and Liam.

“taller” is a comparative adjective.

 Comparative Adjectives
Cheetah’s and rabbit’s are fast.

faster
Cheetah’s are _________________________than rabbits.

Fast add the suffix -er

Faster is a comparative adjective.

 Comparative Adjectives
That turtle is slower than some turtles.

Limiting adjective
1st adjective is ‘That’

Comparative adjective
2nd adjective is ‘slower’

Limiting adjective
3rd adjective is ‘some’
 Exercise 2
Write the comparative forms of the
adjectives in the brackets by adding –er.

1. Superman is __________than batman. (fast)

2. Who is __________than the Hulk? (strong)
3. Plankton is _________than Spongebob. (small)
4. Tower one is ________than my house. (large)
5. I am___________than you. (light)
6. A snail is __________than a tortoise. (slow)
 Superlative Adjectives
Suzie, Bernie and Kimmy are funny in class but,
Suzie is the funniest.

Nouns

Suzie, Bernie and Kimmy are funny in class but,

Suzie is the funniest.
What type of adjective is ‘funniest’?
Is it comparative?
Comparative only compares TWO nouns.
Here, we have THREE.
 Superlative Adjectives
‘Funniest’ is a Superlative adjective.

The word ‘SUPER’ is in ‘SUPERlative that means,

something that is MOST.
When you add ‘-est’ suffix, to an adjective, the noun
described becomes the MOST of whatever adjective.
 Exercise 3
Underline the incorrect adjectives are replace them with the right ones.

1. She is the most cleverer among the students.

2. My car is smallest than yours but big than Nina’s.

3. This boy is the naught among all of them.

4. Your shoes are very dirtiest.

5. My teeth are whitest than yours.

1. She is the most cleverer among the students.

2. My car is smallest than yours but big than Nina’s.

3. This boy is the naught among all of them.

4. Your shoes are very dirtiest.

5. My teeth are whitest than yours.

 Comparative Superlative

Old Older The oldest of/in

Short Adjectives
Fat* fatter fattest
Adjectives that Early Earlier Earliest
end in -y happy happier Happiest

Adjectives with Exciting More exciting Most exciting

two syllables or Delicious More delicious Most delicious
more difficult More difficult Most difficult
Irregular Good Better Best
adjectives bad worse worst

For short adjectives with ONE vowel & ONE consonant,

you MUST DOUBLE the consonant.
Comparison of Adjectives
Positive

-We use the positive form when

no comparison is made.
Comparative

-We use the comparative form

when we compare TWO nouns

Example:

His house is bigger than mine

Susila is braver than Cayden.

Superlative

*Compare three of more nouns

* add –st or -est

Example:

Lina is the tallest girl in school.

Tina is the laziest girl in class.

 Superlative
Positive Comparative

Jeff is big. Greg is bigger than

Bini is the
Jeff.
biggest.