Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Eleven, Lesson Three: Proper Adjectives

  1. speech
  2. sweet
  3. teeth
  4. feet
  5. greet
  6. sheet
  7. pollinate
  8. sand
  9. bell
  10. shore
  1. dispersal
  2. gather
  3. wildrose
  4. charcoal
  5. kilns
  6. smelter
  7. crush
  8. ovary
  9. coating
  10. sap
Proper Adjectives

A proper adjective is a proper noun used as an adjective. Here are a few examples: 


  Jill loves Mexican food.

  Jack bought some Alaskan crab at the market.

  The dancers wore Hawaiian costumes.



Remember that adjectives describe something about the noun they modify. So
although we could say:




  Jill loves food.





and have a perfectly meaningful sentence. The sentence: 




  Jill loves Mexican food.





provides us with more information.






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