Trees and Adjectives

LESSON 1.36
Trees and Adjectives

Adding adjectives to trees should help you see their place in a sentence. Drawing a tree with adjectives in them is quite easy. For example:Adding adjectives to trees should help you see their place in a sentence. Drawing a tree with adjectives in them is quite easy. For example:Adding adjectives to trees should help you see their place in a sentence. Drawing a tree with adjectives in them is quite easy. For example:Adding adjectives to trees should help you see their place in a sentence. Drawing a tree with adjectives in them is quite easy. For example:

The lonely cactus, a red giant, stood beneath an orange sunset in the scrubland desert.

Class Activity

Label the parts of speech of the following sentence. Then draw and, if you teacher wishes, color the tree.

Sentence         =          red

Nouns             =          brown

Verbs              =          green

Determiners   =          blue

Prepositions   =          pink

Pronouns        =          purple

Adjectives      =          orange

Conjunctions =         yellow

A sewer rat with a bloody nose ran between the legs of diners in a fancy Seattle restaurant.  

Small Group Activity

Label the parts of speech of the following sentence. Then draw and, if you teacher wishes, color the tree.

The high school sophomore class auctioned off Jake’s smelly socks after he was drafted into the NFL.

Individual or Small Group Activity

Complete the exercise:         Bulgaria

Optional Activity