Adjective definition for 2nd grade
Adjective Facts for Kids
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An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. Nouns are words that name a place, a person, a thing, or an idea. An adjective is a word that gives more information about the noun that goes with it. It is a part of speech.
Often, the adjective is before the noun it describes. Sometimes an adjective is not followed by a noun:
- The sky is blue.
- The joke she told was so funny, I could not stop laughing all day.
- It is still an adjective, because we could have "the blue sky", "the funny joke", and "the crazy man". The adjective is still describing the noun though they are not side by side.
- There is a tall man.
An adjective is a word that gives instant information about a noun to make a clear picture of the noun in the mind of the reader and create a feeling to the writer.
Contents
- Comparative and superlative
- Nouns as noun modifiers
- Adjectives and adverbs
- 100 Adjectives used in Basic English
Comparative and superlative
Sometimes there are different forms of the same adjective. If one joke makes a person laugh more than another joke, then that joke is funnier. This is called the comparative form. The day that is colder than any other is the coldest day. This is the superlative form of "cold". Some adjectives need additional words when we want to compare them. For instance, one car may be cheaper than another, but the second car may be more reliable (we use "more reliable", instead of "reliabler"). Reliable means worthy of trust.
The rule is:
For short adjectives ending in a consonant like "cold," "black," or "fast," one adds the suffix er to make a comparison of greater magnitude. Example: "The North Pole is colder than Florida." The greatest possible comparison is made by adding the suffix est. Example: "The North Pole is the coldest place on the Earth." For long adjectives like intelligent, conscientious, comprehensive, one uses the word more to make a comparison of greater magnitude. Example: "Children are more intelligent than adults.
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A superlative makes the greatest possible comparison. One uses the word most. Example: "She is the most conscientious person I have ever known."
Nouns as noun modifiers
In the English language, it is possible for a noun to modify (describe) another noun. Example: take the noun "angel" and the noun "face." Put them together and the result is "angel face." The first noun is acting as an adjective, because it is giving us information about the second noun.
Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives are words we use to describe the noun. Simple words like "warm" and "fat" are adjectives commonly used in writing. One can make adverbs from some adjectives by adding the suffix ly. Example: take the adjective "beautiful," the adverb is beautifully. One can do it the other way around: take an adverb like "presumably," the adjective is "presumable". "Presumable innocence" means the accused is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
The adjective "guilty" becomes the adverb "guiltily" and vice versa (the opposite), the adverb "guiltily" becomes the adjective "guilty.
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100 Adjectives used in Basic English
able • acid • angry • automatic • beautiful • black • boiling • bright • broken • brown • cheap • chemical • chief • clean • clear • common • complex • conscious • cut • deep • dependent • early • elastic • electric • equal • fat • fertile • first • fixed • flat • free • frequent • full • general • good • great • gray • hanging • happy • hard • healthy • high • hollow • important • kind • like • living • long • male • married • material • medical • military • natural • necessary • new • normal • open • parallel • past • physical • political • poor • possible • present • private • probable • quick • quiet • ready • red • regular • responsible • right • round • same • second • separate • serious • sharp • smooth • sticky • stiff • straight • strong • sudden • sweet • tall • thick • tight • tired • true • violent • warm • wet • wide • wise • yellow • young
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Adjectives are a part of speech that modify nouns, pronouns, and more. They allow for the description of what they are modifying, therefore forming a more vivid image of what is being described.
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TYPES OF ADJECTIVE
- Descriptive adjectives
- Name a quality of a noun or pronoun that they modify
- The cat is white.
- The carpet is fluffy.
- The cat is white.
- Name a quality of a noun or pronoun that they modify
- Proper adjectives
- Derived from a proper noun
- I am an American citizen.
- I love eating Japanese food.
- Derived from a proper noun
- Limiting adjectives
- Define and restrict the noun they modify
- That car is parked askew.
- There were many mosquitoes in the yard.
- Define and restrict the noun they modify
- Interrogative adjectives
- Modify by asking a question
- Whose bag is this?
- What time should I be there?
- Modify by asking a question
- Coordinate adjectives
- A group of adjectives separated by a comma
- It was a warm, sunny day.
- It was gloomy, rainy day.
- A group of adjectives separated by a comma
- Compound adjectives
- Consist of two or more words that function as a unit.
- The use of a hyphen depends on the position of the compound adjective. If the compound adjective is placed before a noun, a hyphen is used.
If the noun precedes the adjective, a hyphen is not necessary. - It’s a well-known book that many people have read.
- She is studying a book from the nineteenth century.
- Determiners as adjectives
- Articles (a, an, the)
- Cardinal numbers (one, two, three)
- Ordinal numbers (first, second, third)
- Possessive pronouns (my, our, your, his, her, its, their)
- Relative pronouns (whose, which, whichever)
- Demonstratives (this, these, that)
- Indefinite pronouns (any, each, other, some)
- Possessive proper nouns (John’s, Jane’s)
- A series of adjectives should follow a proper sequence
- opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type, purpose
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Adjective Grade 2 | Outline of the lesson in Russian (grade 2):
GAPOU SO "Saratov Regional Pedagogical College"
Outline of the lesson in Russian on the topic:
"Adjective name"
Completed by a student of group 24:
Ekaterina Churkina
MBOU "Progymnasium No. 237" Semitsvetik"
Class: 2 "A"
Teacher: Frolova S.S.________________
Methodist: Serkova N.A._______________
Date: 03/18/2020
Rating:______________________
Saratov 2020
Subject: Adjective.
Lesson type: Lesson of discovery of new knowledge.
Purpose: to create conditions for the formation of an idea of the adjective as a part of speech, to show the role of adjectives in speech, to pay attention to the connection between adjectives and nouns.
Educational:
- give an idea of the adjective as a part of speech; show the role of adjectives in speech; enrich the vocabulary with adjectives of different thematic groups.
Developing: to enrich students' speech, develop memory, thinking.
Educational: to promote the formation of interest in the subject.
Equipment: Textbook for Grade 2. Klimanova L.F., Makeeva S.G., Russian language, Part 2 (UMK Perspektiva), presentation.
1. Motivational stage
Hello guys! My name is Ekaterina Mikhailovna, today I will give a Russian lesson.
Our lesson I would like to start with a poem, listen:
I will open a notebook
And put it where it should be.
I, friends, will not hide from you:
I hold the pen correctly.
I'll sit up straight, I won't bend,
I'll get to work.
Check your posture, keep your back straight. Open your notebooks, step back two lines from the previous entries, write down today's date: March 18, class work.
Look at the blackboard and write this letter in your notebook, like mine. (I)
Let's look at the slide, find the words in the line and write them in correct calligraphy0003
What words did you write down? Berry, wind, shovel, soon)
- How are these words similar? (there is an unchecked vowel in the root) Underline the unchecked vowel in the root.
2. Statement of the educational problem and its solution
Carefully read the words that you see on the slide (white, armchair, timid, hare, wooden, streets, wide, paint), divide them into two groups. (1-paint, hare, armchair, streets; 2- white, timid, wooden, wide) Prove your choice.
-What questions do the words of the first group answer? (Who? what?)
-What do they mean? (Subject)
-What are these words called? (Nouns) Give a definition (a noun is a part of speech that denotes an object and answers the questions Who? What?)
-What do the words of the second group mean? What does the word "white" mean? (color) timid? (inner quality) wooden? (material) wide? (size)
In a word, do these words denote signs? How do you understand what signs are? (properties of objects, their distinctive qualities)
-Determine the topic and purpose of our today's lesson.
(Let's get acquainted with the words that indicate the attribute of the subject. Find out what they are called, what questions they answer.)
-Read the topic of the lesson. Who guessed what the words denoting the attribute of an object are called? (Adjective name)
3. Solving private problems
Open the textbooks on page 99, find exercise No. 137. Read an excerpt from a fairy tale (one of the students reads aloud)
- The beginning of which fairy tale did you read? ("Zayushkina hut")
-What kind of hut did the fox have? (ice, light)
- What kind of hut does the hare have? (bast, dark)
- How do you understand the meaning of the word "bast"? (made from bast, wood, wood with bark)
-What is the answer to the words icy, light, bast, dark? (What?)
What do these words mean? (sign of an object)
Let's now try to formulate a rule ourselves (children formulate a rule: a part of speech that denotes a sign of an object and answers the questions what? what? what? what?)
Let's compare our rule with the rule in the textbook.
Let's read Professor Samovarov's explanation. (students read) (p. 99)
-What does the adjective mean? (subject attribute)
-What questions does the adjective answer? (what? what? what? what?)
Give examples of adjectives. (red, long, beautiful, green, funny)
Find exercise number 138. Read the task. Think back to the task you did at the beginning of the lesson. What signs of an object can the adjective name indicate? (on color, size, quality of character, material)
Read, what signs will we determine in objects? (taste, shape, color)
What does an apple taste like? (sweet, sour, tasteless, sweet and sour…)
What is the shape of an apple? (round, oval, flattened, pear-shaped…)
By color? (green, red, yellow, rose red, ruddy, mottled…)
What is the taste of a plum? (sweet, sour, sweet and sour)
What is the shape of a plum? color? (blue, purple)
What does a lemon taste like? (sour, sweet and sour, tasteless…)
What is the shape of a lemon? (oval, round, oblate…)
By color? (yellow, green, green-yellow)
What Do you like nuts? (sweet, salty, bitter, tasteless…)
What are the shapes of nuts? (round, elongated, oval…)
By color? (brown, light brown, dark brown…)
Physical Minute
“What? Which? And what kind? ”, -
We repeat together in unison.
We know these questions.
And we answer them:
“Which one?” - our cool lesson,
"What?" - blackboard,
"What?" - cool mood
Me and you.
We know adjectives,
We repeat in unison:
“We will never forget
These cool words!”
Listen to the poem:
Ripe, red, sweet apple,
Crispy apple with smooth skin.
I will break an apple in half,
I will divide an apple with my friend.
What would you call this poem? ("Apple")
Copy the word from the textbook. Put emphasis. Name the unstressed vowels in the root (the unstressed vowel o in the root). Select it (p. 100)
How to check the unstressed vowel o in the root? (it is impossible to check, it is necessary to remember)
How to remember easier? What association can help? (the letter o looks like an apple)
How many letters are there in this word? (6) How many sounds? (7) Why are there more sounds than letters? (the letter i stands for two sounds: y and a)
Divide the word into syllables (ya-blo-ko), and for hyphenation (yab-lo-ko).
Name the single-root words: (apple, apple tree, apple)
And now I will read the poem again, and you must write out adjectives for the word apple.
What words were written out, check yourself according to the standard (ripe, red, sweet, crunchy)
Crispy - what kind of apple? (crunchy) What word is it derived from? (crunch)
What words did you write out, what part of speech do they belong to? (adjective)
Who can repeat the rule again? (The adjective is a part of speech, indicates a sign of an object, answers the questions what? what? what? what? what?)
That's right, well done guys!
Let's do exercise number 141. Read the task. What do we need to do? (read the text, find out the main idea of the text: How beautiful the meadow is in spring, and its beauty must be protected and titled (“Spring meadow”, “Meadow in spring”)
Let's complete the task under the text:
Complete the phrases using words from the text.
Guys, does anyone know what the phrase is? (A phrase is words that are related in meaning and grammatically or only in meaning):
Meadow (what?) Green.
Bluebells (what?)
Carnations (what?) red.
Daisies (what?) white.
Olya (what?) is small.
What are the parts of speech that make up phrases called? (Nouns and adjectives)
What questions did we ask from nouns to adjectives? (What? What? What?)
Draw a conclusion: are nouns and adjectives related and how are they related? (An adjective always refers to a noun, because it denotes a sign of an object. From a noun to an adjective, you can raise a question)
What role do adjectives play in our speech? (Adjectives help to describe the subject, make our speech more beautiful, precise, vivid and expressive)
4. Lesson summary
What was the purpose of our lesson today? (to get acquainted with the words that indicate the attribute of an object. Find out what they are called, what questions they answer, and also learn about the connection between adjectives and nouns)
Have we reached it? (Yes)
What does the adjective mean? (subject attribute)
What questions does it answer? (What? What? What? What?)
Who will formulate the rule in full? (The adjective is a part of speech, denotes a sign of an object, answers the questions what? what? what? what?)
How are adjectives and nouns related? (An adjective always refers to a noun, because it denotes a sign of an object.
From a noun to an adjective, you can put a question)
5. Reflection
On the slide you are presented with phrases, complete them.
Today I learned… It was interesting… It was difficult… I completed the tasks…
I realized that… Now I can… I felt that… I acquired…
I learned… I succeeded… I could… I will try… I was surprised...
The lesson gave me for life... I wanted to... I'll tell you at home that...
6. Homework (p. 102 exercise 143)
Look at the exercise, are there any questions about the homework?
| 3. Every year I fly to you, I want to spend the winter here. Even redder in winter My bright red tie. 4. A friend is waiting for me - At the top - an eyelet. If he goes dancing, He will mend and sew everything. 5. Which bell does not ring? 6. On the page of the primer Thirty-three heroes. Wise men-bogatyrs Every literate knows. |
Creative task. Group work. 
Game "Name the sign!" Slide 11. 
