Hidden Adjectives

Hello everyone,

Yesterday we looked at simple adjectives that are used to describe or specify. Today, we are going to look at some adjectives that are a little bit trickier to spot.

Have a look at my shoes. I'm sure you remember them from PE lessons as they are pretty hard to forget. There is a lot of adjectives to describe them; pink, bright, shiny, silver and there is also another adjective: running.

Running looks like a verb and normally it is but in this example it describes the shoes by telling us what type they are; running shoes. There are lots of other examples; bowling ball, walking stick, climbing frame are all examples of use a word with an -ing suffix as an adjective.

For your first challenge, have a look at the sentences below and see if you can spot the adjectives in them. Warning! One is a trick! One of these sentences has no adjectives!

1. Bake a pie with cooking apples.
2. Don't fall off the climbing frame.
3. Make sure to wear a swimming hat.
4. Put your food in shopping bags.
5. Cook apples in boiling water.

It's simple to work out if you think about it. The apples aren't cooking, the frame isn't climbing, the hat isn't swimming, the bags aren't shopping but the water is boiling. Sentence 5 is the trick.

For your second challenge try these two sentences and see if you can spot the trick! One of them has an -ing adjective and one has an -ing verb.

1. Don't forget your running shoes.
2. Look in the pond for a jumping frog.

If you think you've worked out the answer, try explaining it in an email to the school email (yr2@harrow.grange.sch.uk) or try submitting it via class charts.

Have a great day and stay safe!
Mr D.

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