Adjectives

Adjective Strings The Human Sentence Activity Create a sentence using the words provided. Add the word ‘and’. How does your sentence change? What is better about this sentence?

Mentor Examples Mentor Examples: A drunk guy staggers onto my field, red-eyed and swearing. Tracy Mack, Birdland  Senora Wong, diminutive but not fragile, ruled with an iron fist. Nancy Osa, Cuba 15   The sun came up, as it had every day since the end of May, bright, hot, and unrelenting. Jim Murphy, An American Plague Words were exchanged, brief and hushed. -Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Adjective Clauses Adjective clauses give writers a way to identify which person or thing we are writing about. Which refers to things and animals. Who, whose, and whom refer to people. That refers to things.

Mentor Text Examples These sentences are from award-winning books, but I have left off a part of each sentence. It’s the kind of smile you give to a chicken.   She opened the door – and stared beyond the picket gate at Willis Hurd and his friends. Dead animals were routinely tossed into this soup. No one knew.

Original Mentor Text Examples It’s the kind of smile you give to a chicken whose head you’re about he cut off. - Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy She opened the door – and stared beyond the picket gate at Willis Hurd and his friends, who all broke into a sudden and uproarious laughter – all except Willis, who was smiling his chicken-killing smile.

Original Mentor Text Examples Dead animals were routinely tossed into his soup, where everything decayed and sent up noxious bubbles to foul the air. - Jim Murphy, An American Plague No one knew that a killer was already moving through the streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way. -Jim Murphy, An American Plague

What Do You Notice?

Adjectives Versus Appositives Adjective Clauses Tell which one Appositives Rename the noun Influenza is a disease which looms on often-touched surfaces, waiting to infect its victim. Influenza, a silent stalker, looms on often-touched surfaces, waiting to infect its next victim.