Adjectives and Adverbs

Select the two adjectives. Don't select any articles.

How could an able-bodied teenager allow his grandmother to scale a plum tree.

• scale, grandmother

• able-bodied, allow

• plum, teenager

• able-bodied, plum

Selct two adjectives.

We wanted to avoid the low standards and cultural poison of a world that had lost its way.

• cultural, poison

• low, world

• low, cultural

• world, way

Identify three adjectives.

That was the whole point of the community---to allow us to escape the money- hungry rat race of modern society.

• money-hungry, rat, race

• money-hungry, modern, society

• whole, money-hungry, modern

• escape, money-hungry, rat

Identify three adjectives.

No school bus could ever make it up the rutted, snaking dirt road that lead to Garland.

• school, bus, rutted

• school, rutted, road

• snaking, dirt, Garland

• school, snaking, dirt

Select four adjectives.

I ran around barefoot, wearing peasant dresses, shared my parents with the other kids, protested the Vietnam War, did farm chores, and listened to a whole lot of sitar music.

• peasant, Vietnam, farm, sitar

• barefoot, dresses, parents, chores

• whole, lot, sitar, kids

• other, protested, listened, lot

Two adverbs?

I stepped gingerly out of the house, careful not to disturb my science project---the Foucault pendulum shakily suspended from the porch roof.

• gingerly, careful

• not, disturb

• shakily, porch

• gingerly, shakily

Two adverbs?

I immediately spotted her up a tree, reaching carefully across a limb to pick a purple plum.

• immediately, purple

• spotted, reaching

• immediately, carefully

• reaching, limb

One adverb?

The October evenings have become rather chilly.

• October

• chilly

• rather

• have

Three adverbs?

Go outside! There are already too many people here.

• go, there, are

• outside, already, too

• too, many, people

• many, people, here

Three adverbs?

That part I remember like it was yesterday---this little flower child, who barely knew how a doorbell worked, suddenly dropped in the middle of a society several centuries ahead of the one she'd just left.

• barely, suddenly, just

• yesterday, barely, left

• suddenly, barely, several

• like, it, barely