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What is an Adjective?
Predicate Adjectives
Other Words Used as Adjectives
What is an Adverb?
Making Comparisons and Adjective or Adverb?
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Central Park is now an American landmark.
American-landmark
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For more than 120 years, Mount St. Helens, a volcano in Washington, was inactive.
inactive-Mount St. Helens
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Most climbers climb mountain formations.
most-climbers, mountain-formation
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Thomas Jefferson became very curious about the West after he took office as president.
very-curious is an adjective
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the (larger, largest) coral reef in the world.
largest
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It was once a dirty swamp that was filled with ugly shacks and much garbage.
dirty-swamp, ugly-shacks, much-garbage
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Then the volcano became dangerous.
dangerous-volcano
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"Urban climbers" scale the city buildings.
city-buildings
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He studied maps and explorers' journals quite often.
quite-often is an adjective
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The (biggest, most biggest) of all polyps, the animals that form a coral reef, are a foot in diameter.
biggest
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People tried to imagine a place where New Yorkers could enjoy the great outdoors.
great-outdoors
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The blasts were thunderous.
thunderous-blasts
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Gyms allow these people to train on rock walls.
these-people , rock-walls
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An adverb describes.....
an adjective, adverb, and verb
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A scuba dive is (more daring, most daring) than a glass-bottom-boat tour of the reef.
more daring
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The landscape includes green meadows, lakes, ponds, woods, and beautiful gardens.
green-meadows, beautiful-gardens
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After hot ash started fires, the air smelled smoky.
smoky-air
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My friends prefer to test their skills on mountains.
my-friends, their-skills
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On May 14, 1804, Lewis, William Clark, and a team of explorers headed west.
west-headed is a verb
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American autor Jack London described nature (good, well).
well is an adverb
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In 1858 there was a national competition for a plane to turn the spot into an attractive park.
national-competition, attractive-park
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Long after the eruption, pumice, a kind of volcanic rock, still felt hot.
hot-pumice
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Their equipment includes this harness and that helmet.
their-equipment, this-harness, that-helmet
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Team members gathered truly valuable information.
truly-valuable is an adjective
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Unfortunately, London felt (bad, badly) because he had scurvy, a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C.
bad is an adjective