02x05 - Unpack Your Adjectives

[bunniefuu]

[male narrator] To begin our show...

[narrator reading]

[music playing]

[girl]
♪ Got home from camping last spring ♪

♪ Saw people, places and things ♪

♪ We barely had arrived
Friends asked us to describe ♪

♪ The people, places
And every last thing ♪

♪ So we unpacked our adjectives ♪

♪ I unpacked "frustrating" first ♪

♪ Reached in and found the word "worst" ♪

♪ Then I picked "soggy"
And next I picked "foggy" and ♪

♪ Then I was ready to tell them my tale ♪

♪ 'Cause I'd unpacked my adjectives ♪

♪ Adjectives are words you use
To really describe things ♪

♪ Handy words to carry around ♪

♪ Days are sunny or they're rainy ♪

♪ Boys are dumb or else they're brainy ♪

[jabbering]

♪ Adjectives can show you which way ♪

♪ Adjectives are often used
To help us compare things ♪

♪ To say how thin, how fat
How short, how tall ♪

♪ Girls who're tall get taller ♪

[giggling]

♪ Boys who're small get smaller ♪

♪ 'Til one is the tallest
Another's the smallest of all ♪

♪ We hiked along without care ♪

♪ Then we ran into a bear ♪

♪ He was a hairy bear
He was a scary bear ♪

♪ We beat a hasty retreat from his lair ♪

♪ And described him with adjectives ♪

[bones chattering]

Whoa! Boy, that was one big, ugly bear!

[girl] You can even make adjectives
out of the other parts of speech,

like verbs or nouns.

All you have to do is tack on an ending,
like "ic" or "ish" or "ary."

For example, this boy can grow up to be
a huge man...

but still have a boyish face.

"Boy" is a noun, but the ending "ish"
makes it an adjective, "boyish."

That describes the huge man's face.
Get it ?

♪ Next time you go on a trip ♪

[both yawning]

♪ Remember this little tip ♪

♪ The minute you get back ♪

♪ They'll ask you this and that ♪

♪ You can describe
People, places and things ♪

♪ Simply unpack your adjectives ♪

♪ You can do it with adjectives ♪

♪ Tell 'em about it with adjectives ♪

♪ You can shout it with adjectives ♪