Describing Adjectives

Find the descriptive adjectives.
Dinosaur means terrible lizard.

• dinosaur
• means
• terrible
• lizard

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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Dinosaurs were the dominant species on Earth.

• Dinosaurs
• dominant
• species
• Earth

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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Like modern reptiles, dinosaurs probably had green or brown skin.

• modern, green, brown
• modern, dinosaurs, green
• reptiles, green, brown
• dinosaurs, probably, skin

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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Small dinosaurs that ate meat were speedy animals so they could escape large predators.

• dinosaurs, ate, speedy
• small, speedy, large
• small, animals, large
• ate, speedy, predators

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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Dinosaurs that ate plants were often huge animals.

• ate
• plants
• huge
• often

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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Tracks show that big dinosaurs walked in long, easy steps.

• tracks, big, long
• show, big, dinosaurs
• big, walked, easy
• big, long, easy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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Paleontologists have difficult jobs.

• paleontologists describes jobs
• difficult describes jobs
• jobs describes paleontologists
• have describes difficult

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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They spend long hours looking for fossils of dinosaurs.

• spend describes long
• looking describes fossils
• long describes dinosaurs
• long describes hours

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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They do slow, painstaking work.

• slow & painstaking describe work
• do & slow describe painstaking
• they describes do
• do describes slow

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

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New dinosaurs are always being discovered.

• being describes discovered
• new describes dinosaurs
• dinosaurs describes always
• always describes being

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E