Identifying Adjectives

Choose the adjective in the sentence: The cute, white, dog walked down the street.

• cute

• white

• cute and white

• walked

Choose the adjective in the sentence: I carried the heavy books up the stairs.

• carried

• books

• heavy

• stairs

Choose the adjective in the sentence: The beautiful, purple flowers grew in our yard.

• flowers

• beautiful

• beautiful, purple

• yard

What are adjectives?

• Words that describe verbs.

• Words that describe nouns.

• A person, place, thing or idea.

• Words that are numbers.

Where do adjectives normally appear in a sentence?

• before nouns or after being verbs

• after nouns or before being verbs

• after verbs and before verbs

• the first word in a sentence

Choose the adjective in the sentence: It was a bright and sunny day.

• day

• bright

• sunny

• bright, sunny

Choose the correct adjective.

Devin is the (smaller, smallest) of all the boys.

• smaller

• smallest

Select the adjective:

Mandy walked with her little sister.

• Walked

• with

• sister

• little

Select the adjective:

The dark sky showed us that rain is coming.

• dark

• sky

• rain

• coming

Select the adjective:

John took the breakable glasses very carefully.

• John

• took

• breakable

• very