Examples of Adjectives in Sentences for First Grade

📚 Quick Study Guide: Adjectives for First Grade

• 🧐 An adjective is a word that describes a noun. A noun is a person, place, animal, or thing.
• 🌈 Adjectives tell us more about how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds.
• 📏 They can tell us about size (like 'big' or 'small'), color (like 'red' or 'blue'), or number (like 'one' or 'many').
• 🤩 Adjectives make our sentences more interesting and descriptive!
• ✍️ Examples: 'The red ball' (red describes the ball). 'A happy girl' (happy describes the girl). 'Two fluffy kittens' (fluffy describes the kittens).

📝 Practice Quiz: Identifying Adjectives

Which word is the adjective in this sentence?

1. "The big dog barked loudly."

A) dog

B) big

C) barked

D) loudly

What word describes the apple?

2. "I ate a sweet apple."

A) I

B) ate

C) sweet

D) apple

Find the adjective:

3. "She has a blue crayon."

A) She

B) has

C) blue

D) crayon

Which word tells us about the flower?

4. "Look at the pretty flower."

A) Look

B) at

C) pretty

D) flower

In the sentence "The small bird flew away," what kind of bird is it?

5. "The small bird flew away."

A) The

B) small

C) bird

D) away

Choose the adjective that describes the juice:

6. "He drank cold juice."

A) He

B) drank

C) cold

D) juice

Which word is an adjective?

7. "There are two cookies on the plate."

A) are

B) two

C) cookies

D) plate