Parts of Speech: Adjectives

Which sentence contains a proper adjective?

• The restaurant owner speaks French.

• My grandfather is from Italy.

• We visited the French restaurant downtown last night.

• That part of the state was settled by Germans.

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.K.1B

Which sentence contains a possessive noun that functions as an adjective?

• That bowl belongs to the cat.

• Her handbag contains a cat.

• His sister owns 12 cats.

• The cat's fur was soft and fluffy.

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.2D

What describes the quality, characteristic, or feature of a noun?

• Demonstrative Adjective

• Descriptive Adjective

• Possessive Adjective

• Quantitative Adjective

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

Which type of adjective points out or indicates specific nouns?

• Descriptive Adjective

• Quantitative Adjective

• Demonstrative Adjective

• Possessive Adjective

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

What type of adjective shows ownership or possession, indicating to whom or to what something belongs?

• Possessive Adjective

• Demonstrative Adjective

• Descriptive Adjective

• Quantitative Adjective

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

Which type of adjective is derived from a proper noun, typically capitalized, and used to describe a specific noun?

• Interrogative Adjective

• Proper Adjective

• Quantitative Adjective

• Descriptive Adjective

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

Which type of adjective is used to ask questions and modifies a noun by asking something about it?

• Demonstrative Adjective

• Possessive Adjective

• Interrogative Adjective

• Proper Adjective

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

Which sentence contains an underlined demonstrative adjective?

• These cookies are the best I've ever tasted.

• These are the worst cookies I've ever tasted.

• The cookies I made were not one of those.

• Did he tell you that was the batch of cookies he made?

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Which of the following choices contains descriptive adjectives?

• someone, anybody, nobody, everyone

• am, is, are, was

• his, hers, mine, ours

• happy, tall, blue, soft

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

Choose the definite article.

• the

• is

• a

• an

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CCSS.L.1.1H