Colours make the world beautiful. We see colours all around us — in flowers, fruits, the sky, and our clothes. Learning to name colours and describe things using colours helps us speak and write better English.
Primary Colours: Red, Blue, and Yellow are called primary colours. We cannot make these by mixing other colours.
- Secondary Colours: When we mix two primary colours, we get a secondary colour.
- Red + Blue = Purple
- Blue + Yellow = Green
- Red + Yellow = Orange
Look at an apple. What colour is it? Most apples are red. We say: "The apple is red."
The sky on a sunny day is blue. Grass in the garden is green. We use colour words to describe what we see.
A banana is yellow. Clouds are white. Charcoal is black. Night is dark. These are all colour words (also called adjectives).
Colour words come before the noun they describe:
- "She wore a pink dress."
- "He has a blue bag."
- "I ate a ripe orange mango."
Sometimes colour words describe feelings or ideas. A rainbow has seven colours: Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red — remembered as VIBGYOR.
Common mistakes
- Do not forget that colour words are adjectives — they describe nouns.
- "The sky is blue" (correct) vs "The sky is bluely" (wrong — 'bluely' is not a word).
- Colour words do not change form: we say "two red balls", not "two reds ball".
Summary
Colours are describing words (adjectives). Primary colours are Red, Blue, and Yellow. Mixing primary colours makes secondary colours. We use colour words to describe people, places, and things around us. The seven rainbow colours are remembered as VIBGYOR.