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Adjectives

I can recognize and use adjectives in sentences to describe peopleand objects.

We put an adjective before a noun.
Winat a beautiful picture!
It's colourful and interesting. Adjective Noun

Ilike funny films.
We ate a big breakfast.

We put an adjective after be:

be Adjective

It 's red.
He was nice.

But when there is an article (a, an and the), the article

goes between be and the adjective.

be Article Adjective Noun

It 's a red bag.
i He was a nice man.

The film was good. It was agoodfilm.

Sometimes the article changes from a to an or an to
a when we use an adjective. When the adjective begins
Itisn't beautiful! with a vowel we use a; when an adjective begins with
It's strange an¿ ugly. a consonant we use an.

a —ÿ an an -> a
We use adjectives to describe nouns (things and It's a book. He's an engineer.
people). It's a big book. He's an Englishengineer.
You're crazy!
It's an old book. He's a French engineer.
That isn'ta beautifulpicture.
We also use adjectives after become, get, seem and
Adjectives stay the same with singular and plural
verbs of sensation (look,feel, taste, smell, sound).
nouns.
You seem sadtoday. I'mgetting cold.
It'sa nicecolour.
They're nicecolours. For more information on verbs of sensation, see unit 7.

* 1 Circle twelve more adjectives inthe story.

Last week our teacher took us on a(Jantastjc)class trip.We took the train to the city centre to
visit two big museums. Inthe morningwe went to the Natural History Museum.We saw lots

of old dinosaur skeletons and other interestingthings. We had our lunch and a hot drink in a
café. In the afternoon we went to the Science Museum.It was good too, but Iwas getting tired
by this time. Unfortunately,the journey home was long.The train was late andit was slow.

But we sang some traditional songs and told some funny stories, so time passedquickly.

98 Adjectives