Identify that Adjective
Four types of adjectives.
What are attributive, substantive, predicate, and objective complement adjectives?
A question word.
What is qualm “how”?
Type of adjective in this sentence:
The brains walked into the room.
What is a substantive adjective?
A surprise!
What is a free-be?
Law of the Twelve Tables.
What was the oldest written legislation of ancient Roman law called?
Gives the noun an adjective that describes it.
What is an attributive adjective?
A type of play.
What is satura, saturae, f. “satire”?
Type of adjective in this sentence:
That’s bull!
What is a predicate adjective?
Attributive adjective.
What is the name of the adjective that is placed adjacent to the noun it modifies without a linking verb?
The legendary founder of Rome.
Who is Romulus?
Uses an adjective in place of a noun.
What is a substantive adjective?
What is clementia, clemantiae, f. “mildness, gentleness, mercy”?
Type of adjective in this sentence:
The dress was a gorgeous silvery green.
What is an attributive adjective?
What is the name of the adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject?
The city was destroyed as a result of the First Punic War.
What is Carthage?
An adjective that describes a subject and is linked by a linking verb.
What is a predicate adjective?
What is aeta, aetatis, f. “period of life, life, age, an age, time”?
Type of adjective in this sentence:
You painted your nails red.
What is objective complement adjective?
Substantive adjective.
What is the name of the adjective that is used alone in the absence of the noun that it modifies?
Empress, supposedly discovered the True Cross.
Who is St. Helena?
An adjective that follows a direct object and describes or renames it.
What is an objective compliment?
A chipper chat on a fine morning.
What is iucundus, iucunda, iucundum ”pleasant, delightful, agreeable, pleasing”?
Type of adjective in this sentence:
Henry is so funny he made Clara laugh so hard milk came out of her nose.
What is predicate adjective?
Objective complement.
What is the name of the adjective that modifies the direct object to rename it or state what it has become?
The household troops of the Roman emperors.
What is the Praetorian Guard?