Identifying Adjectives

Identify all of the adjectives in the following sentence:

Hunter made a sandwich of brown lettuce, old mayonnaise, and stale bread.

• brown, old

• brown, old, stale, a

• stale

• Hunter, brown, old

Identify all of the adjectives in the following sentence:

The fat frog snatched flies from the air with its long tongue.

• fat, long, the

• fat

• long

• its, long, frog

Identify all of the adjectives in the following sentence:

While Priscilla crunched salty pretzels, Peter, her brother, assembled the bicycle.

• Priscilla, Peter, pretzels

• crunched, assembled

• salty

• salty, the

Identify all of the adjectives in the following sentence:

After Jeff dripped jam on his white shirt, he licked the fabric.

• dripped

• on, his, he

• white, the

• white, fabric

Identify all of the adjectives in the following sentence:

We put a thick envelope under one leg of the wobbly table.

• a, thick, one, the, wobbly

• think, one

• wobbly, the, a

• envelope, table

Adjectives modify or describe nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.

• True

• False

Which adjective modifies or describes the word coffee in the sentence below?

Sarah sipped hot coffee and longed for weather when drinks were icy.

• icy

• hot

• longed

• weather

The underlined word in the following sentence is what part of speech?

Mike laced his shoes and smiled in anticipation of a long run.

• Noun

• Pronoun

• Adjective

The underlined word in the following sentence is what part of speech?

The guests found toothpaste and a clump of hair in the sink.

• Noun

• Pronoun

• Adjective

The underlined word in the following sentence is what part of speech?

Too lazy to write a romantic poem, Murray bought expensive roses instead.

• Noun

• Pronoun

• Adjective