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Adjectives are used to describe nouns. They are placed before the noun.
a little dog 
a clean house 
a nice neighbor 
a good friend
a pink flower 
a busy man 
a good recipe 
a blue bucket
Adjectives never take -s even if the noun is plural.
brown cows 
big snowflakes 
expensive cars 
clean floors
young girls 
pretty ribbons 
dirty shoes 
soft pillows
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EXERCISE
 Use your dictionary to find the meaning of the following verbs and 
vocabulary words needed for this exercise before you begin. Write the 
words in your language in the space provided.
to drink 
to see 
to want 
to look 
hard 
leather
little 
hairy
test 
for sale 
cute 
beautiful
prune 
country
handsome windy
Rewrite the following sentences, and include the adjective(s) in the correct place in each 
sentence.
1. The house is for sale. (cute, little) 
2. It is a knife. (very, sharp)
Adjectives
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3. He is a man. (tall, handsome)
4. It was a day yesterday. (cold, windy)
5. I want a jacket. (black, leather)
6. They drink juice every morning. (prune)
7. The bug is in my shoe. (big, green) 
8. Elizabeth is a teacher. (French)
9. The spider is in the kitchen. (ugly, hairy)
10. Canada is a country. (big, beautiful)
11. The test was hard. (English)
12. He was a policeman. (nice)
13. Look at the snow. (beautiful, white)
14. The frog is in the pond. (little, green)
15. It was a whale. (huge)
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