Adjectives Review

Adjectives Review

By Dawn Umbarger

What is an Adjective?

Proper Adjectives

Multiple Choice

Find an adjective and what it modifies:

We sat in the first row.

• Adjective: we

  modifies: sat

• Adjective: first

  modifies: row

• Adjective: sat

  modifies: row

• Adjective: first

  modifies: we

Multiple Choice

Find an adjective and what it modifies:

She was unhappy.

• Adjective: unhappy

  modifies: she

• Adjective: unhappy

  modifies: was

• Adjective: was

  modifies: she

Predicate Adjectives

Multiple Choice

Add a suitable complement to the linking verb to complete the sentence.

Oranges are _____.

• islands

• tall

• water

• delicious

• criminals

Multiple Choice

Add a suitable complement to the linking verb to complete the sentence.

Oaks grow ___.

• islands

• tall

• water

• delicious

• criminals

Multiple Choice

Add a suitable complement to the linking verb to complete the sentence.

Ice becomes ___.

• islands

• tall

• water

• delicious

• criminals

Multiple Choice

Add a suitable complement to the linking verb to complete the sentence.

Thieves are ___.

• islands

• tall

• water

• delicious

• criminals

Multiple Choice

Add a suitable complement to the linking verb to complete the sentence.

Greenland and Iceland are ___.

• islands

• tall

• water

• delicious

• criminals

What is a Predicate Adjective?

Multiple Choice

Identify the linking verb in the following sentence:

The children grew restless.

• the

• children

• grew

• restless

Multiple Choice

Identify the predicate adjective in the following sentence:

The children grew restless.

• the

• children

• grew

• restless

Multiple Choice

Identify the word that the predicate adjective modifies in the following sentence:

The children grew restless.

• the

• children

• grew

• restless

Multiple Choice

Identify the linking verb in the following sentence:

She has been helpful.

• she

• has been

• helpful

• been

Multiple Choice

Identify the predicate adjective in the following sentence:

She has been helpful.

• she

• has been

• helpful

• been

Multiple Choice

Identify the word that the predicate adjective modifies in the following sentence:

She has been helpful.

• she

• has been

• helpful

• been

Possessive Adjectives

Possessive adjectives tell us who or what a noun belongs to.

• Some are possessive pronouns: my sweater, your backpack, her garden, their wedding

• Some are traditional adjectives using an 's: teacher's cat, Ella's cookies, dog's tail

Multiple Choice

We are Tina and Claire. ___ hair is short and fair.

• your

• our

• my

• their

Multiple Choice

It's ___ birthday. I'm eleven today.

• his

• her

• my

• I

Multiple Choice

____ nose is long.

• Pinocchioes

• Pinocchio's

• Pinocchios

• Pinocchios'

Multiple Choice

Possessive adjectives ____.

• describe people's feelings.

• describe people's physical characteristics.

• tell you who owns something.

• tell you what someon is doing.

Other words used as adjectives

Sometimes other words can be used as adjectives

• NOUNS: ruby red, ice cold, log cabin, stone fence

• DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS: this time, that road, these newspapers, those children

• INDEFINITE PRONOUNS: few mistakes, several weeks, some difficulty, each position

• PARTICIPLES: falling stars, shimmering rainbow, locked door​

Multiple Select

Which TWO pronouns are used as adjectives in the following sentence:

Why do your fingerprints leave their marks on objects?

• your

• leave

• their

• marks

Multiple Select

Which noun and pronoun are used as adjectives in the following sentence:

The fingers have skin ridges on their surface.

• fingers

• skin

• ridges

• their

Multiple Select

Which two words are being modified (described) in the following sentence?

When a criminal touches a surface with his fingers, these ridges leave an impression.

• fingers

• these

• ridges

• criminal