GRADE 8 ENGLISH MODIFIERS

2. FACTS:
 RAINBOW NATION
 FREEDOM OF RELIGION
 PRACTICE ORALTRADITIONS
 ANCESTORWORSHIP (WEDDING, BIRTHS, DEATHS, JOB AND
GRADUATION)
 COW, SHEEP, OR CHICKEN FOR FEAST
 SUPREME GOD OR SUPREME BEING
 MEAT AND BEER OFFERTOTHE ANCESTORS

4. 1. VANISHED
• To disappear entirely without a clear explanation

5. 2. MOUNDS
• To make a pile with or of something

6. 3. FIST
• The hand with its fingers bent down into the
palm

7. 4. BROODY
• Serious and sad

8. 5. GERMINATED
• To cause a seed to begin to grow

9. • Words, phrases, or clauses that provide
description in sentences.
• Modifiers can be adjectives, noun
modifier, adjective clause, adverb, and
relative clause

10. EXAMPLE:
• ADJECTIVE: Hungry
• NOUND MODIFIER: Our dog
• ADJECTIVE CLAUSE: Who tends to gormandize on anything
sweet and scrumptious
• ADVERB: Ravenously
• RELATIVE CLAUSE: that my mother prepared for me