Adjectives Can be a Nuisance

I substituted in a second grade class the other day. Their language arts for the day was learning about adjectives. The flowery descriptive adjectives they were coming up with made me cringe.

As far as I'm concerned, adjectives--and adverbs too--can be a bit of a nuisance. It is so much more important to dig for powerful nouns and verbs to put your point across. Instead of writing a long skinny dog with floppy ears and a pointy nose, why not use the word dachshund, then everyone will know what you're talking about.