Now let's review the use of descriptive adjectives and practice a bit.
Remember that we use descriptive adjectives to describe nouns or pronouns in detail by giving them an
attribute to that particular word with the following sentence and underline these adjectives we board
a spacious apartment in a quiet part of our town
spacious quiet.
Note that descriptive adjectives usually express things through the five senses touch taste sight smell
and sound read the following sentence and underline these adjectives the food smelled awful it tasted
horrible and it did not look tasty
awful horrible tasty.
Remember the we express such aspects as feelings time sound quantity taste appearance size age color
shape and material through simple adjectives.
Read the following sentence and underline these adjectives.
I wanted to buy three white wooden chairs
three white wooden
also note the reform compound descriptive adjectives by combining two words usually with a hyphen.
Read the following sentence and underline these adjectives and it's an example of a girl next door.
She's sweet kind and has a lot in common with boys
next door.
Make sure to always pay attention to the order of adjectives in a sentence read the following sentences
in a range.
The adjectives in their proper places were we were kids my friend was a funny looking short boy and
he grew up to be a tall young drop dead gorgeous man.
When we were kids my friend was a funny looking short boy and he grew up to be a drop dead gorgeous
tall young man.