Adjectives
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English
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6th - 8th Grade
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Medium
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Marilee Marsman
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This quiz focuses on adjectives, covering the fundamental grammatical concept of descriptive words and their functions within sentences. Designed for middle school students at the 6th to 8th grade level, the assessment evaluates students' ability to identify adjectives in various sentence contexts, distinguish between different types of adjectives (including articles, demonstrative adjectives, and predicate adjectives), and understand the relationship between adjectives and the nouns they modify. Students need a solid foundation in parts of speech recognition, sentence structure analysis, and the ability to differentiate adjectives from other word classes like nouns, verbs, and pronouns. The quiz progresses from basic identification tasks to more complex applications, requiring students to count adjectives in sentences, classify adjective types, and recognize how adjectives answer specific questions about nouns (what kind, how many, which one). Created by Marilee Marsman, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 6 and 8. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a diagnostic tool to gauge student understanding, a practice exercise for reinforcing classroom instruction, or a formative assessment to identify areas needing additional support. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before introducing more advanced grammar concepts, assign it as independent practice following direct instruction on adjectives, or use it as a review tool before summative assessments. The varied question formats and progressive difficulty make it particularly valuable for differentiated instruction, allowing teachers to support students at different proficiency levels while addressing key language arts standards L.6.1, L.7.1, and L.8.1, which focus on demonstrating command of standard English grammar and usage.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The old shoe was full of mud.
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CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the adjective in this sentence?
The old shoe was full of mud.
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CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.K.5B
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the adjective in this sentence?
Harry picked up his yellow pencil off the floor.
Tags
CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.K.5B
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the adjective in this sentence?
The happy kids ran out the door to recess.
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CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.K.5B
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Identify the adjective:
The brown banana was used to make bread.
Tags
CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.K.5B
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Identify the adjective.
Jesse's dad is upset because he was laid off from his job.
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CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.K.5B
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Identify the adjective.
Jesse thinks his sisters are lazy and inconsiderate.
Tags
CCSS.L.1.1F
CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.K.5B
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