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1 The Parts of Speech
WORKSHEET 3
Identifying Adjectives
Underline each adjective in the following paragraph. Do not include the
articles a, an, and the.
Exercise A
EXAMPLE
[1] Bonsai is the art of growing tiny trees.
[1] In Japan, some people grow miniature trees that have a famous history and an
important place in horticultural art. [2] Through pruning and fertilization, the trees are
trained to keep the shape and proportion of larger trees. [3] The trees often have small
leaves and small fruit. [4] The trees have an old and wind-swept appearance, as though
they had grown in the outdoors. [5] With bonsai, gardeners can create realistic landscapes
in pots and carry scenes of mountain crags or vast plains into their homes.
Exercise B Underline each of the twenty-five adjectives in the following story, and
draw an arrow from the adjective to the word or words it modifies. Treat hyphenated
compound words like spine-tingling as one word. Do not include the articles a, an, and
the.
EXAMPLE
Scary stories can make the imagination run wild.
On hot summer nights, Julio and the other boys sleep out in the yard. They put up a
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tent in a dark corner, where the trees and bushes are thick. That way the boys can easily
imagine they are in wild, uninhabited country.
One evening Mike suggested that they tell ghost stories or tales of bear hunts. After a
particularly spine-tingling story, Mike couldn’t sleep; he was too nervous.
About midnight he saw something move in the shadows. “Yeow!” he cried out. “There
is a big bear! It is really huge!”
In the sudden confusion, the small tent collapsed on top of the boys; each one
seemed eager to go in a different direction. Anxious parents ran out of the nearby house.
They found a coal-black dog. Like a bear, this animal was very curious. It was sniffing at
the tangle of arms, legs, and bodies under the tent.
Elements of Literature
The Parts of Speech
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Language
Handbook
1 The Parts of Speech
Worksheet 1
Worksheet 3
Identifying Nouns
Identifying Adjectives
Exercise A
Exercise A
1. Mercury; planet; sun
2. data; spacecraft; astronomers; Mercury; Moon;
craters
3. surface;Venus; clouds; gas; landscape; telescopes
4. Craters; meteorites; fragments; comets;
asteroids; planet; planet’s; satellite
5. craters; Moon; miles
Exercise B
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Exercise B
formation; island; process
process; millions; years
volcanoes; mountains; floor; sea
eruption; lava; pile; rock; years; mountain; reach;
waves
island; reef
islands; surface; ocean; mountains; ridges;
canyons; cliffs
Plants; animals; island; wind; current
forms; life; island; rafts; limbs; vegetation
organisms; birds; island; lands
Galapagos Islands; forms; life; tortoises;
sunflowers; mainland
Worksheet 2
Identifying and Using Pronouns
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Exercise A
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1. some; miniature; famous; important;
horticultural
2. larger
3. small; small
4. old; wind-swept
5. realistic; mountain; vast; (and their if you
classify possessive pronouns as adjectives)
who—Elena; it—ball
his—Otis; she—sister
I—Mike; it—game
her—Gabriella; it—cash
they—children; who—driver
he—Elliot; it—French
her—Denise; them—sandwiches
I—Jerry; myself—I (or Jerry)
she—Sheila; them—comedies
she—Keiko; it—volleyball
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hot—nights
summer—nights
other—boys
dark—corner
thick—trees, bushes
That—way
wild—country
uninhabited—country
One—evening
ghost—stories
bear—hunts
spine-tingling—story
nervous—he
big—bear
huge—It
sudden—confusion
small—tent
each—one
eager—one
different—direction
Anxious—parents
nearby—house
coal-black—dog
this—animal
curious—animal
Worksheet 4
Identifying and Using Verbs
Exercise B
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who
He
his
it
it
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that
they
her
herself
She
Exercise A
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formed
needed; planned
financed
sold
constructed; bought; placed
sketched; carved; made; sold
Answer Key
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