Grammar: Word classes: Adjectives

Describing qualities and attributes

Weather

One very common use of adjectives is for describing the weather. 
For this we often use the structure It is ... :

	It is sunny / cloudy / overcast. It is windy / breezy / calm. It is cold / hot / warm / mild / cool. It is freezing / boiling. It is foggy / hazy / clear. It is humid / damp / dry. It is rainy / drizzly / fine. It is snowy.

Note that many of the above weather adjectives are formed from nouns by adding the letter -y (sunny, cloudy, windy, foggy, hazy). 

Note also that we say It is raining or It is snowing when we are talking about something that is happening at the time. If we are referring to a general situation, we say It is rainy / rainy weather; It is snowy / snowy weather.

For a teaching activity about describing the weather, see the PrimeTeach file:

	Weather words
	If it's sunny ...