Unit 3: Adjectives and Adverbs

Unit 3: Adjectives and Adverbs

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of an adjective?

• a word used to describe a noun or a pronoun or to give it a more specific meaning.

• a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

• a person, place, thing, or idea.

• an action word.

a word used to describe a noun or a pronoun or to give it a more specific meaning.

What kind? Which one? How many? How much?

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Adjective

Multiple Choice

Identify the adjective(s)
Colorful sunsets are really beautiful.

• colorful and beautiful

• really

• sunsets

• are

Multiple Choice

Identify the adjective(s)
I brought my beach ball.

• beach

• my

• my and beach

• ball

Multiple Choice

Identify the adjective(s)
The short, thin man walks with a cane.

• short and thin

• thin man

• a cane

• walks

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of an adverb?

• a word used to describe a noun or a pronoun or to give it a more specific meaning.

• a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

• a person, place, thing, or idea.

• an action word.

a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Where? When? In what way? To what extent?

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Adverb

​"The roller coaster shook the passengers violently as they made each turn."

Multiple Choice

Identify the adverbs(s)
She rarely washes her car.

• she

• rarely

• rarely, and her

• washes

Multiple Choice

Identify the adverb(s)
Colorful sunsets are really beautiful.

• colorful and really

• really

• beautiful

• sunsets

Multiple Choice

Identify the adverb(s)
Jessica will arrive later.

• Jessica

• will

• arrive

• later

The shortest sentence in the English language is:
I am.

I am _____ running to the _____ store.

Open Ended

Rewrite the entire sentence with an adverb and an adjective.
I am _______ running to the _______ store.