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What parts of speech do adjectives describe?
Nouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Other adjectives
Which of the following words is an adjective?
Book
Loud
Speak
When
Which sentence uses "blue" as an adjective?
Blue is my favorite color.
My cat's name is Blue.
The blue parakeet sang all day.
Orange goes well with blue.
Adjectives answer questions like:
Who? What? When? Why?
What location? What time? What day?
Can you? Will you? Are you?
What kind? Which one? How many? How much?
In a sentence, the main purpose of adjectives is to:
Improve the rhythm
Add details
Highlight the subject
Separate nouns and verbs
"Charles feared that the big and scary dog would jump over the short metal fence." A comma should be added between:
Short and metal
Jump and over
Big and scary
Charles and feared
"The story is about an unlikely friendship between a shy, pink pig and an outgoing spider." Which adjective should be deleted?
Unlikely
Pink
Shy
Outgoing
Fill in the blank with the best, most specific adjective: "Kelly was digging to find fossils from _____ civilizations from many, many years ago."
new
ancient
old
past
"In the face of obstacles, the students were not defeated, but resilient." What does "resilient" describe?
Defeated
Obstacles
Students
But
When you have two adjectives in a row, you can separate them with a:
Period
Exclamation point
Capital
Comma
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