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20 Cards in this Set
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What is an Adjective?
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it describes or modifies nouns or pronouns.
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An Adjective answers the following questions such as:
"What kind is it?" "Which one?" "How many are there?" |
True
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What is a Proper Adjective?
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are formed from proper nouns.
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What is a Compound Adjective?
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contain more than one word and sometimes have hyphens.
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True or False.
In the sentence, "7,919 is the one-thousandth prime number," 7,919 and one-thousandth are both adjectives. |
False.
One-thousandth is an adjective describing prime number, but 7,919 is serving as the subject of the sentence. It is a noun. |
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Circle all the Adjectives. You can leave out "a, an, the."
School hallways are a dangerous place in violent, overcrowded cities. |
school
dangerous violent overcrowded |
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Circle all the Adjectives. You can leave out "a, an, the."
She felt that she was an utter failure, but her mother felt that she was thoroughgoing success. |
utter
thoroughgoing |
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Circle all the Adjectives. You can leave out "a, an, the."
The Canadians were furious when their child came home from kindergarten with black-and-blue marks. |
furious
black-and-blue |
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Circle all the Adjectives. You can leave out "a, an, the."
Danish queen Margrethe II is the first female monarch of Denmark since Margrethe I, who took the throne in 1388. |
Danish
first female |
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Circle all the Adjectives. You can leave out "a, an, the."
I know that this is a banausic concern, but six is my lucky number, so I am disappointed that I was only able to purchase five tickets for the raffle. |
Banausic
lucky disappointed five |
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What is an Absolute Adjective?
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are adjectives that are not capable of being intensified.
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To intensify an adjective is to turn intelligent into more intelligent and tall into taller.
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True.
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Is smart an absolute adjective?
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No
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Is dead an absolute adjective?
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Yes
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Examples of Absolute Adjectives
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square
essential universal immortal absolute |
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Find the Adjective Errors:
The chefs taught us to make delicious Chinese food, and they were always very nice about answering questions. |
Correct.
The pronoun they refers back to chefs. Both are plural. Chinese is used an adjective describing food. |
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Find the Adjective Errors:
The Chinese army is the largest military force in the world; they have approximately 3 million members. |
Incorrect.
Here Chinese is used as an adjective describing army. The pronoun they is attempting to refer back to either Chinese or army. The sentence is incorrect either way-Chinese is an adjective and army is singular, so the plural pronoun they cannot refer back to either word. |
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Find the Adjective Errors:
This liquor is a fifteen-year-old Scotch. |
Correct.
Fifteen-year-old is a hyphenated adjective. |
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Find the Adjective Errors:
The college administrators have argued that it needs a larger budget to continue operating into the new year. |
Incorrect.
The pronoun it cannot refer back to college, which is being used as an adjective describing the administrators. |
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Find the Adjective Errors:
That professor never gives anyone an A, but he did tell me that my paper was more nearly perfect than any of my classmates' papers. |
Correct.
More nearly perfect is a good way to describe being closer to perfect than something else. |
