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Color It

Sentences are more fun to read if you use descriptive words -- words that describe something. These describing words are usually adjectives and adverbs. You can "color" your sentences using adjectives and adverbs.

Adjectives

An adjective is a word that modifies (describes) a noun. For example, the noun in the following sentence is "car." Notice what happens to the sentence as we add adjectives, one at a time.

1. My car is going across the bridge.
2. My red car is going across the bridge.
3. My shiny, red car is going across the bridge.
4. My fast, shiny, red car is going across the bridge.
5. My large, fast, shiny red, car is going across the bridge.

In this activity you will build a series of sentences describing "my dog." Each new sentence will contain another adjective about the dog until the last sentence has a string of four adjectives. The more unusual the adjectives you use, the more interesting your sentence will be.

Write your adjectives in the angle brackets in the sentences.

1. My dog ran home.
2. My <  > dog ran home.
3. My <  >, <  > dog ran home.
4. My <  >, <  >, <  > dog ran home.
5. My <  >, <  >, <  >, <  > dog ran home.

Which adjectives do you like the best? Share your sentences with a friend. Which ones does the friend like? Go back and change any adjectives that you think could be more interesting or descriptive.


Name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.)

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Adverbs

An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. In the following sentence, the verb is "talked." Notice what happens to the meaning of the sentence as we choose different adverbs to describe the verb "talked."

1. My mom talked quietly to me.
2. My mom talked endlessly to me.
3. My mom talked secretly to me.
4. My mom talked angrily to me.
5. My mom talked sweetly to me.

Notice that adverbs often end in "ly."

In this activity you will again build a series of sentences about "my dog." Only now each new sentence will contain a different adverb describing how the dog ran. The first one is done for you. See how the meaning of the sentence changes according to the adverbs you choose.

Check to see that each of your sentences answers the question "How did the dog run?"

1. My dog ran quickly home.
2. My dog ran <  > home.
3. My dog ran <  > home.
4. My dog ran <  > home.
5. My dog ran <  > home.

Which sentence do you like the best? Are some of your adverbs more interesting than others? Share your sentences with a friend and get his or her opinion. Then go back and change any of the adverbs above that you think could be more exciting or descriptive.

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Colorful Sentence

Now try building sentences by choosing nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs and stringing them together. Follow the pattern below:

Example:

Adjective  Noun   Verb   Adverb

Blue       cars   drive  fast.

Choose your words from the word bank below.

Adjective  Noun    Verb     Adverb

tiny       mouse   spoke    warmly
green      bike    spun     crazily
smelly     socks   jiggled  proudly
funny      Fred    swam     strangely
prickly    potato  crumpled loudly

Five sentences have been started for you below. Finish the sentences by writing your choice of words in the insert markers.

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2. The <  >
3. A <  >
4. A <  >
5. A <  >


Which sentence do you like the best? Work on your sentences until you have at least one that you like a lot.

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This sentence was built from the word bank above.

"The green socks crumpled loudly."

The sentence might be used in a three-sentence paragraph as follows:

The green socks crumpled loudly. They were crusty from the two weeks they spent on Jack's feet as he hiked from Vermont to New York. They smelled like rotten toadstools.

Now you try it! Copy or retype your favorite sentence from the ones you wrote above. Place the copy at the angle brackets below, then add two more sentences to make a paragraph. Use your imagination and...have fun!

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