Adjectives for Kids What is an adjective Learn all about adjectives Grades 1 3

adjectives for kids hey kids or should we say hey smart kids see what we did there we threw an adjective in there which word was the adjective if you guessed the word smart you're right or we could have said hey curious kids in that case the word curious would have been the adjective you may not know what we mean when we call word an adjective so let's explain an adjective is part of speech and what's part of speech well every word in sentence has role or part to play we figure out what each word's role is by defining it as part of speech you've got your nouns like boy or dog or house you've got your verbs like run play or dance and you've got your adjectives like smart or curious as we mentioned above obviously not all words are adjectives only special ones we use adjectives in sentences to describe what noun is like or to give it characteristics so instead of just boy we could say tall boy the adjective there is tall or instead of the dog we could say hungry dog with hungry as our adjective instead of just house could be haunted house haunted is the adjective there so why do we use adjectives well without them we wouldn't be able to describe what things are like if someone asks you what your best friend is like you'd need an adjective to describe him or her as in he's fun or she's athletic he's cool or she's intelligent adjectives are our way of telling other people what the things around us are like what their characteristics are and how we think of them so how do you know if word is an adjective when you're reading or listening to book or story here's simple test to check if word is an adjective ask yourself this does it describe person place thing or idea does it give you detail about noun this is addy adjective her job is to add information to nouns for example imagine addie is wearing dress the word dress is noun what's the dress like is it green flowing flowery sparkly soft let's say addy is wearing soft green flowing dress in that sentence soft green and flowing are all the adjectives now addie is wearing glasses what are those glasses like we need adjectives to tell us are they round square blue dark what else is addie like every word we use to describe her is an adjective is she brave generous fast happy sad or bold what are some adjectives you'd use to describe yourself your friends your mom and dad of course adjectives are not only used to describe people you can describe almost any noun with an adjective your bike might be fast your food might be delicious your school might be huge your homework might be difficult fast delicious huge and difficult all of those words are adjectives so to sum up adjectives are great they make the world most interesting they turn ordinary nouns extraordinary frankly adjectives are amazing now that you know more about the magical eye-opening and exciting world of adjective you'll never use nouns the same way again and if you always think of addie when identifying adjectives you won't go wrong isn't that right colorful animated fun-loving adi thanks for following clarendon learning be sure to subscribe for more free resources check us out at clarendonlearning.org