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Spanish Adjectives and Adverbs [VHS]
$39.95
Adjectives and adverbs help us to give more information about the nouns and the verbs that we use. They¡Çre descriptive words that add color to language. Become familiar with the rules that govern the usage of Spanish adjectives and learn how to form adverbs from adjectives. There are many illustrated examples to facilitate comprehension. Footage shot on location in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries will expose you to the sights and sounds of the Spanish-speaking world while a basic grammar lesson is learned.

Carson-Dellosa Publishing Photographic Learning Cards Boxed Set, Nouns/Verbs/Adjectives, Grades K-12
$52.99

Carson-Dellosa Publishing Photographic Learning Cards Boxed Set, Nouns/Verbs/Adjectives, Grades K-12

Themed photographic cards come in a convenient boxed set and offer a real classroom value. A useful addition to any elementary resource room and a great tool for speech, language, special education, ESL, ELL, Head Start and Title 1 programs. For Grades K-12. Cards depict nouns including everyday objects, food and things at school; action verbs, and adjectives including opposites and "talk about a child`s day". Box includes 275, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 cards and 13 resource guides. Global Product Type: Games/Manipulatives-Speech/Language Photo Cards; Games/Manipulatives Type: Speech/Language Photo Cards; Age Recommendation: For Grades K-12; Grades K-12; Number of Cards: N/A.

SKU: CDPD44045 - Sold as 1 ST

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? (Words Are Categorical)
$6.95
This book is helpful in giving examples of adjectives in a rhyming light-hearted way that teaches a little as it mildly entertains. But I did not think it all that educational, and for $6.95 it seemed very short. A better teaching aid is MadLibs, not the dumbed-down Junior MadLibs, but just MadLibs, which I have found extremely effective in teaching the differences between adjectives, nouns, etc.

When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
$13.99
There's no English part of speech that doesn't have its detractors. Mark Twain hated adjectives, Stephen King hates adverb, Gertrude Stein thought nouns were pointless. (Nouns? Really?) Yagoda teaches college English and has worked as a copyeditor (as have I), and he's come down, more or less, on the side of descriptiveness in language -- though there are various increasingly common constructions that make him wince. Again, I agree on both points. I have no use for prescriptive authoritarians like Edwin Newman who actually think it's possible to freeze the language, and I'll split infinitive without hesitation, but "more unique" still makes me grind my teeth. And I loathe "and/or." Moreover, Yagoda likes to go to Google to provide usage statistics. He devotes a chapter to each speech-part (though grammarians apparently don't call them that anymore) but most of the space is taken up with anecdotes (insiders always refer to "CIA," never to "the CIA") and contextual quotations from unusual authors and speakers. Still, there are some eyebrow-raisers. He defends comparative uniqueness by quoting Grahame's Toad of Toad Hall in saying a house is "very unique" -- with no apparent notion that the author was making fun of his character. And his list of adjectives which are "uncommon" (and are therefore to be avoided, so as not to sound pompous or fancy) includes baleful, supercilious, capacious, bumptious, and a number of others I would have expected to find in the second-level vocabulary of anyone with a proper education. So while there's lots of neat stuff in this not-long book, it's not as "authoritative" as the flap copy wants you to believe.