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Identifying Adjectives

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is the adjective in the following sentence:


This was untrue.

a)

This

b)

was

c)

untrue

2.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


He lashed the horses unmercifully with his long whip, and with wild cries of encouragement urged them on to further exertions.

a)

lashed, urged

b)

long, wild

c)

unmercifully, wild, further

3.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

a)

She, stirring,heart

b)

stirring, breathless, thrilling

c)

extemporizing, warmth

4.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


Miss Baker and I exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning.

a)

Miss Baker, I

b)

short, devoid

c)

exchanged, consciously

5.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.

a)

subdued, murmur, unashamed

b)

impassioned, forward, trying

c)

subdued, impassioned, audible, unashamed

6.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.

a)

emotions, possessed,

b)

sedative, thought, girl

c)

turbulent, sedative, little

7.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


The crazy coach rocked on its great leather springs, and swayed like a boat tossed on a stormy sea.

a)

crazy, great, stormy

b)

coach, leather, boat

c)

rocked, swayed, tossed

8.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


He was a very active lad, fair-haired, freckled, with a touch of the Dane or Norwegian about him.

a)

Dane or Norwegian, lad

b)

He, him

c)

active,fair-haired, freckled

9.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom’s, and she laughed with thrilling scorn.

a)

eyes, Tom, she

b)

defiant, thrilling

c)

flashed, laughed

10.

What is the adjective in the following sentence:


The crimson room bloomed with light.

a)

Inside

b)

crimson

c)

bloomed

11.

What is the adjective in the following sentence:


‘She’s a nice girl,’ said Tom after a moment.

a)

after

b)

nice

c)

girl, moment

12.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


They were driven by a tall man, with a long brown beard and a great black hat, which seemed to hide his face from us.

a)

They, man, beard

b)

driven, hide

c)

tall, long, brown, great, black

13.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


The strange driver evidently heard the words, for he looked up with a gleaming smile.

a)

strange, gleaming

b)

driver, he

c)

heard, looked

14.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—

a)

eyes, Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

b)

blue, gigantic

c)

yes, blue

15.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.

a)

wild, eternal

b)

set, fatten, sank, forgot

c)

Evidently, away

16.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


Once there appeared a strange optical effect.

a)

there, effect

b)

appeared

c)

strange, optical

17.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land...

a)

only, small, yellow, waste

b)

building, block, brick

c)

sight, edge

18.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


This was all so strange and uncanny that a dreadful fear came upon me, and I was afraid to speak or move.

a)

strange, uncanny, dreadful, afraid

b)

This, fear, me

c)

came,speak, move

19.

What is the adjective in the following sentence:


Again I could not but notice his prodigious strength.

a)

Again

b)

notice

c)

prodigious

20.

What are the adjectives in the following sentence:


She said that he was very earnest, and had a beautiful nature.

a)

said, had

b)

earnest, beautiful

c)

nature