Adjectives
Identify the adjective(s) in the sentence:
The polar bear is listed as threatened.
What is polar?
Identify the adverb(s) in this sentence:
Jeremiah ran quickly.
What is quickly?
Using the first sentence as your guide, the correct comparative of the second sentence:
I ran hard today.
I ran _______ today than I did yesterday.
What is harder?
The correct word here is...
One of the advantages is hydroponically grown crops, which are crops grown without (any, no) soil.
What is any?
Correct the position of the modifier:
He saw a truck in the driveway that was red and black.
What is He saw a red and black truck in the driveway?
Identify the adjective(s) in this sentence:
Mary has a collection of expensive Russian dolls.
What are expensive and Russian?
Identify the adverb(s) in this sentence:
The movie was really boring.
What is really?
Using the first sentence as your guide, the correct comparative of the second sentence:
I ran hard today.
Of all the days I have run this week I ran ________ on Wednesday.
What is hardest?
The correct superlative:
She feels bad/badly since her fingers were burned.
What is badly? (She is feeling something physically with her fingers, so the adverb form is used.)
Correct the misplaced modifier:
Perhaps anticipating what scientists would discover, Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the missing Anastasia, requested she be cremated before her death.
What is Perhaps anticipating what scientists would discover, Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the missing Anastasia, requested before her death that she be cremated?
Identify the adjective(s) in this sentence:
The Jewish community in NY is very big.
What are Jewish and big?
Identify the adverb(s) in this sentence:
I went to the store to buy new shoes. However, the store was already closed when I got there.
What are however and already?
Create the comparative and superlative forms of the following adjectives.
Old, _________ (comparative), _________ (superlative)
What are older and oldest?
The correct superlative:
The mask he wore made him look suspicious/suspiciously to the police.
What is suspicious?
(He did not look with his eyes; look describes his appearance so the adjective is used.)
Correctly place the modifier:
We knew by Friday we would call for a strike.
What is...?
We knew that by Friday we would call for a strike.
or We knew by Friday that we would call for a strike. (depending on the intended meaning)
Identify the adjective(s) in the sentence:
The cake baking in the oven makes the whole house smell fragrant.
What are baking, whole, and fragrant?
Identify the adverb(s) in this sentence:
She never drives on icy roads.
What is never?
The correct comparisons in the following sentences:
I am the ________ of two sisters. (young)
I am the ________ of three sisters. (young)
What are younger and youngest?
The correct superlative use here:
I feel bad/badly about having said that.
What is bad? (I am not feeling something physically but rather describing something emotionally, so the adjective bad is used.)
Correctly place the modifier:
Advancing across the desolate plains, the hot sun burned the pioneers.
The pioneers are advancing across the plains, not the sun. Make this clear. So...what is...?
Advancing across the desolate plains, the pioneers were burned by the hot sun.
OR The hot sun burned the pioneers as they advanced across the desolate plains. (if you want to avoid the passive voice)
Identify the adjective(s) in the sentence:
I love that really big old green antique car that is always parked at the end of the street.
What are big, old, green, antique?
Identify the adverb(s) in this sentence:
That book is much too expensive.
What are much and too?
The correct comparisons for these sentences:
Maria is able to do __________ work on clear nights than on cloudy nights. (valuable)
Maria is able to do her ___________ work on quiet, perfectly-conditioned nights. (valuable)
What is more valuable and most valuable?
The correct use of good and well:
Your exam results were very _______.
3. You did very ______ in your exam.
What are good and well?
Correctly place the modifier:
The teeth of the ancient woman preserved in a glass case were the pride of his collection.
What is...?
The ancient woman's teeth, preserved in a glass case, were the pride of his collection.
OR Preserved in a glass case, the teeth of the ancient woman were the pride of his collection.