Ms. Garcia and Ms. Wile

6th Grade Language Arts

*Adjectives are modifiers.

*They give information about nouns and pronouns they modify.

*What kind?

*How many?

*How much?

*Which one?

*Gray clouds, crisp apple, quiet pond

*Three weeks, several mistakes

*Less noise, more dessert

*Next year, this jacket, best poster

*Two or more adjectives may modify the same noun.

*Example:

*1. Five funny, clumsy ducklings waddled after their mother.

*2. Picasso’s ceramics are colorful and humorous.

*Regional and ethnic music in America has

many roots. Traditional American Indian

Music uses male voices and sometimes

drums and rattles.

* Example: A man served the food.

* The woman lives in a house on a street.

* The child played with a ball.

* Example: The elderly owner of the Cuban restaurant served us a delicious meal with rice and beans.

*Adverbs modify-or tell more about-verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

*They tell when, where, how, and to what extent.

*Modifies Verb

*Modifies Adjective

*Modifies Adverb

*We happily visited Adam.

*The extremely graceful swan swims.

*Jackie ran very quickly.

*Mandy adverbs can come either before or after the verbs they modify.

*Suddenly, the light went out.

*The light went out suddenly.

*The light suddenly went out.

*Most adverbs end with the suffix –ly

*Quickly

*Easily

*Carefully

*If you need to modify a noun or a pronoun, use an adjective.

*The drill was quick.

*If you need to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb, use an adverb.

*The towel dried quickly.

*Jimmy ate his lunch.

*The boy picked up his notebook.

*The girl danced on stage.

*Jimmy ate his lunch rather quickly.

*The boy slowly picked up his notebook.

*The girl gracefully danced on stage.

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