straight + boys.
crooked |
five |
some |
all |

What words here modify _boys_ by adding the idea of size? What by adding
the idea of color? What by adding the idea of form? What by adding the idea
of number? What are such words called? Why?

Let the teacher name familiar objects and require the pupils to join
appropriate adjectives to the names till their stock is exhausted.


+DEFINITION.--An _Adjective_ is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun+.

Analysis and Parsing.

+Model+.--_A fearful storm was raging_. Diagram and analyze as in Lesson
20.

+Written Parsing+.

_Nouns_. | _Pronouns_. | _Adjectives_. | _Verbs_.
storm | ---- | A fearful | was raging.

+Oral Parsing+.--_A_ is an _adjective_, because it is joined to the noun
_storm_, to modify its meaning; _fearful_ is an _adjective_, because
------; _storm_ is a noun, because ------; _was raging_ is a verb, because
-----.