List of adjectives in developmental order:
Basic – ahead, alike, afraid, bad, behind, beginning/ middle/ end, big, clean, cold, (basic colors: black, blue, green, orange,red, yellow), dirty, fake, fast, fat, funny, good, great, happy, heavy, high, hot, hungry, lazy, long, loud, low, mad, many, middle, more, new, nice, old, open, pretty, quiet, real, sad, scary, short, sick, silly, slow, small, strong, tall, thirsty, tired, tricky, upside down, wet, yummy, etc.
Early Elementary – alive, angry, backward, better, best, beautiful, breakable, bright, broken, bumpy, careful, clear, closed, cloudy, clumsy, (later developing colors: pink, purple, gray, brown, white, etc.), comfortable, dangerous, delicious, deep, difficult, dry, early, easy, empty, excellent, exciting, famous, far, first, few, flat, free, freezing, friendly, full, half, hard, healthy, helpful, horrible, icy, important, impossible, itchy, juicy, large, last, late, lazy, light, loose, more, near, nervous, noisy, nosy, past, perfect, plastic, poor, powerful, quick, rainy, ready, rotten, rough, round, salty, same, second, secret, shallow, shy, skinny, sour, spicy, spotted, sticky, straight, strange, striped, sweet, tame, thankful, tight, tiny, tough, underlined, used, warm, weak, wide, wild, wise, whole, wild, wonderful, wrong, young, etc.
Later Elementary – alphabetic, ancient, average, bitter, boiling, brave, challenging, cheap, cool, complete, concerned, covered, crooked, crowded, curly, damaged, dizzy, dull, dusty, equal, expensive, familiar, flexible, fresh, gentle, gigantic, gorgeous, greasy, greater than, grumpy, guilty, imaginary, innocent, interesting, less than, level, massive, melted, miniature, mysterious, natural, necessary, nervous, normal, nutritious, odd, old-fashioned, opposite, plain, precious, previous, proud, possible, public, rare, responsible, ripe, scientific, selfish, separate, serious, silent, similar, simple, solid, steep, sudden, thin, uneven, unknown, unusual, valuable, violent, wasteful, wealthy, worried, etc.
Secondary – abundant, accurate, amused, brief,(advanced colors: tan, lavender, blue-green, etc.), complex, common, damp, disrespectful, dull, eager, empty, entertaining, exact, faint, frail, frequent, handsome, helpless, historic, hollow, intelligent, irrelevant, jealous, magnificent, medical, modern, mushy, negative, obedient, ordinary, overconfident, parallel, political, positive, precise, prickly, pro-ductive, puny, rapid, relevant, roasted, roomy, slanted, specific, stiff, tender, unequal, vacant, vast, etc.
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Adjective Bingo – Basic
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Adjective Bingo – Later Developing Adjectives
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Adjective Fill in the Blank Cards:
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Adjective Comprehension Strips
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Adjective “Uno” Cards
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These grammar worksheets help grade 1-3 students learn to recognize and use adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe nouns. All worksheets are pdf files; multiple versions of some worksheets are provided for additional practice.
Grade 1 adjectives worksheets
- Identifying adjectives from a list of words
- Choosing adjectives to describe pictures
- Completing sentences with adjectives from a word bank
- Write sentences with adjectives
Grade 2 adjectives worksheets
- Identifying adjectives from a list of words
- Identifying adjectives in sentences
- Adjectives which come after nouns
- Writing sentences with adjectives
- Using 2 adjectives in a sentence
- Comparative adjectives
- Alliterations
Grade 3 adjectives worksheets
- Identifying adjectives in sentences
- Identifying adjective and nouns from a list
- Complete sentences with adjectives
- Writing adjectives to make sentences more interesting
- Comparing with adjectives
- Comparative and superlative adjectives
Grade 4 adjectives worksheets
- Order of adjectives
- Adjectives and linking verbs
Grade 5 adjectives worksheets
- Ordering adjectives
- Prepositional phrases as adjectives
- Comparative and superlative adjectives
- Using hyperbole
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FORMIMG
ADJECTIVES
Noun Adjective
Noun Adjective
adventure adventurous
faith faithful
athlete
athletic fool foolish
beauty
beautiful friend friendly
boy
boyish gold golden
center
central hero heroic
continent continental
industry industrial
courage courageous
metal metallic
coward cowardly
music musical
danger dangerous
mystery mysterious
noise
noisy nation national
poet
poetic nature natural
star
starry person personal
terror
terrible skill skillful
value
valuable sun sunny
Exercise 1. Form adjective
from the noun in brackets:
a………………sea ( storm )
……………….forests ( value )
a……………… sound ( metal ) a
………………wonder ( nature )
……………behaviour ( child )
a……………….place ( mystery )
a……………….phrase ( poet )
a…………………deed ( courage )
a……………..armchair ( comfort )
………………….streets ( center )
a……………..class ( friend )
an ……………..trip ( adventure )
Exercise 2. Form adjectives
Eg. This has been a very ……. Decision ( fool ) – This has
been a very foolish decision.
- The shop was situated in a ……..square. ( center)
- Gold is a very ……………….metal ( value )
- The runner was a man of ………build ( athlete)
- We studied the ………..sky through a telescope ( star )
- He feels quite ……….in this warm light room ( comfort )
- Mark Twain wrote many …………stories ( humour )
- A ……………person soon puts you at your ease ( friend )
Exercise 3. Noun + -( c )al = Adjective
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geography – geographical nation – national person – personal conversation – conversational |
music – musical tradition – traditional history – historical practice — practical |
Read and translate :
Its geographical position, his personal example, a musical
performance , national dances, a traditional greeting, practical
difficulties, conversational language , historical monuments
Use one of the adjective with the suffix – ( c )al :
- Our teacher of geography told us about the …….position of
great Britain. - Independence day is a very important ………….holiday in the
United States. - Each country has its own ………….dances and songs, its own
………….instruments. - Lots of people like to spend their holidays visiting
………….places.
Exercise 4. Noun + -ic = Adjective
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patriot – patriotic hero — heroic |
history – historic artist — artistic |
Read and translate :
A patriotic war, a heroic deed, a historic place ,
artistic skills.
Exercise 5.
care careful careless
fear fearful fearless
help helpful helpless
hope hopeful hopeless
rest restful restless
use useful useless
1. The
man felt no fear when he went hunting. He was really a ……………hunter ( fear)
2. The
young boy’s legs were hurt and of no use to him. He found that his legs were
….when he tried to walk. ( use )
3. My
friend talks all the time . His works are ……( end )
4. I
like the story very much. I thought it was …….. ( delight )
5. The
sailors understood that their situation was very dangerous. Some of them had
already lost any hope that they would be saved. They were sure that their
situation was …… ( hope )
6. Many
racing cars have ……….engines ( power )
7. This
grass snake is not dangerous at all. It is quite ……. ( harm )
8. Children
should be ………. To their parents ( thank )
9. He
made a lot of mistakes in his composition due to writing ( care )
10. Bright flowers make the room
look ……… ( cheer )
11. A ……person can do nothing
for himself ( help )
12. Richard was ill and could
not fall asleep. He had to spend a …..night ( sleep )
13. Only a very ……..craftsman
could make such a beautiful piece of furniture ( skill )
Exercise 6.
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— geography – geographical conversation – practice – classic – tradition – experiment – person — |
— enjoy – enjoyable value – honour – understand – remark – eat – drink — |
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— boast – boastful faith – cheer – truth – colour – delight – harm – wonder — |
— mystery – mysterious joy – glory – envy – nerve – danger – humour – fame — |
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— hero – heroic patriot – artist – fantasy – history — |
— sun – sunny greed – grass – health – luck — |
— noise –noiseless sleep – sound – care – fear — |
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Exercise 7.
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care care help help hope rest truth |
careful careless helpful helpless hopeful restless truthful |
carefulness carelessness helpfulness helplessness hopefulness restlessness truthfulness |
Eg. Our situation was hopeless. All of us had a feeling of
hopelessness when we realized we had lost our way.
- John is not careful in doing his work . His ………is
terrible. - The young soldiers found it hard to wait for the signal to
attack. Their ……….was noticed by the officers. - Ann never tells a lie. You can always depend on her …….
- I like the quite and ………of the forest. For me it is the
most wonderful place in the world.
Exercise 8. Read the nouns
in a column at the left side . Think of three adjectives which may be used to
describe them.
game —
work —
weather —
performance —
scenery —
experiment —
place —
development —
minerals —
Exercise 9. un + adjective unhappy = not
happy
Unhealthy, unusual, unknown, unpleasant
An unhappy end, an unkind boy, an unusual question, an
unknown soldier, an unhappy place
I have a collection of fairy tales. Some of them are by
unknown writers , but they are very interesting. Some tales have an unusual
ends.
Exercise 10.
Eg. rain – rainy
Cloud, wind, salt, sun, fun, taste, shine, noise
- I don’t like it when the weather in summer is ………….and
…………….. - The cakes that Mummy cooked were …………
- The water in seas and oceans is ……………
- The toys on the New Year Tree were ……
- It’s nice to bathe and swim when the day is ………
- We laughed because the story was …….
- In autumn the sky is usually grey and ……………..
Exercise 11.
Eg. The garden is full of bright flowers . It looks so beautiful.
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There are lots of stars in the dark sky. It looks so …. It’s fun to watch the monkeys at the Zoo. They look so.. The airplane is very high in the sky . It …. The lake is very large . Can we swim in it ? It …. Look at the shiny stars . They …….. |
beautiful funny small clean nice bright |