Adjectives
Adjectives answer the following questions about the words they modify:
A. To what extent? To what degree?
B. Where? When? How?
C. Who? What? When? Where? Why?
D. What kind? Which one? How many? How much?
D. What kind? Which one? How many? How much?
What is the antecedent for the pronoun in the following sentence?
Kyle aced his medical board exam.
Kyle
Decide if each sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Darcy stayed home from school on Friday.
simple
Writing that is true
Which of the following sentences features a demonstrative adjective?
A. This is a really fun party!
B. Did you eat the crab?
C. These crab cakes are really tasty.
D. I'm really enjoying our trip to Baltimore.
C. These crab cakes are really tasty.
Identify the word bracketed in the sentence below.
Fred gave (her) the answer to the question.
A. subjective/nominative case pronoun
B. objective case pronoun
C. possessive adjective
D. possessive pronoun
B. objective case pronoun
Decide if each sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
If you want to go to the mall, you'll have to clean your room.
complex
Define poetry.
Writing concerned with the beauty of language
Identify the adjectives in the sentence:
A glazed gray mirror broke into many jagged pieces.
a, glazed, gray, many, jagged
Identify the pronouns in the sentence:
Whose are we going to drive?
Whose, we
Decide if each sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Although it was raining and the roads were slippery, we decided to go for a bike ride.
compound-complex
A play or script.
Examples may vary.
Identify the adjectives in the sentence:
Your window is cracked.
your, cracked
Identify the pronouns in the sentence:
Are you going to wear these?
you, these
Decide if each sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Our class made $25 at the fund-raiser, and we're going to donate it to the food bank.
compound
Define meter.
Meter refers to the rhythm of the syllables in words in a poem.
Identify the adjectives in the sentence:
I would like four in the pink color.
the, pink
Identify the pronoun(s) in the sentence:
Each is responsible for his or her books.
Each
Decide if each sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Lisa got sent to the principal's office because she was late.
complex
Define Rhyme Scheme and give an example.
Rhyme scheme refers to the patterns of sounds before the line break.
Examples may vary.