Welcome to the first adjectives subsection which deals exclusively with compound adjectives. There are currently 14 such worksheets with more coming soon. Let’s look at a sample worksheet from this category. This worksheet uses the game dominos to help students practice forming compound adjectives. All the materials and directions are included. For the best results, make sure that students are confident using compound adjectives and indicate what acceptable combinations are so that students cannot simply play whatever dominos they have and form illogical combinations. For more advanced students, alter the rules so that whenever a compound adjective is formed, the student whose turn it is must make a full sentence using it. Remember that this is just one subsection of adjectives so if you need to broaden your search, look in the main adjectives section of the site.
A compound modifier (also called a compound adjective or a phrasal adjective or adjectival phrase) is a compound of two or more attributive words: That is, more than one word that together modify a noun. Compound modifiers are grammatically equivalent to single-word modifiers, and can be used in conjunction with other modifiers. Despite the common names "compound adjective" and "phrasal adjective", the constituent words need not be adjectives. Combinations of nouns, determiners, and other parts of speech are common (man-eating and one-way). The punctuation of compound modifiers in English depends on their grammatical role. Attributive compounds – modifiers within the noun phrase – are typically hyphenated, whereas the same compound used as a predicate will typically not be. Compound adjectives, like normal adjectives, modify noun phrases. Grammatically, there is no difference between hot metal and white-hot metal – the latter is a compound adjective because it is made of two words.
Descriptive Image Writing
This worksheet is designed to encourage students to use adjectives to paint a picture with words. The purpose of this worksheet is to have the students write a small passage describing each photo ...
Song Worksheet: My Love by West Life
My Love - Gap fill worksheet. This worksheet can be used to introduce or review simple vocabulary - empty, hole, getting, wonder,etc. Pair students to encourage pair work. The Word list shows the ...
Children for Whom School Means Nothing
Good reading activity with comprehnsion questions. Teachers can use as a wram for further discussion of truancy as a school problem. I used this as a reading activity with my students and they enj ...
The Ship Wreck
Intensive reading practice and oral practice of a range of conditionals and deductive language. Students read a story which poses a problem and answer questions which lead to the solution. Readin ...
Song Worksheet: Hand in my Pocket by Alanis Morissette
A song activity to deal with adjectives and suffixes. Students are supposed to listen to the song and put the sentences in order. A positive aspect of this file is that it brings three copies toge ...
Present Simple and Present Continuous Chart
It is a chart listing the verb EAT in both grammatical tenses. It can be used for ESL students as an overivew where they can look up how to form these two different present tenses and there is a s ...
Noun Modifiers
I prepared this ppt to teach noun modifiers (a two-car garage, a five-gallon tank, etc.) Students should remember that these phrases act as if they were adjectives, so they never take the plural. ...
Videogames Reading
This worksheet has an interesting topic for 8th grade (videogames) and also high school. You will need to look for those keywords which are in the text ...
I showed them in a ppt presentation. B ...
Lady Gaga Reading Worksheet
Text comprehension about the famous celebrity, followed by a comprehension chart for the most important data about her life and career, a link exercise with the most relevant facts of her life and ...
Character Adjectives Word Search 2
nice activity to revise personality adjectives , with synonyms and opposites List of words used in this word search: OUTGOING, OBEDIENT, INCONSIDERATE, ILL-MANNERED, BIG-HEADED, THOUGHTLESS, CONS ...
Grammar and Comprehension Worksheet
This file contains grammar questions and comprehension questions based on ICSE model. It can be used as a guide for both teachers and students while preparing for the examinations. The grammar sec ...
My Fabulous Summer
This worksheet contains five parts which focus on different types of activities. The first two ask the learners to use their creative writing techniques filling in the lines in the poem and creat ...
Adjectives Worksheet For Kids
It's a worksheet for practicing the adjectives, it contains two activities of completing sentences with adjectives and also students have to draw their favourite animal and give a description for ...
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