DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

The purpose of a descriptive adjective is to _____.

• answer "how many" or "how much"

• ask a question

• show ownership

• describe the quality or kind of noun it is modifying

Identify the descriptive adjectives in the sentence:

Mary let out a loud laugh after hearing the crazy joke that the strange, old man told.

• loud, crazy, strange, old

• Mary, laugh, joke, man

• let, hearing, told

• a, loud, after, the, crazy, strange

Identify the descriptive adjectives in the sentence:

I really love to play with my fluffy, brown dog who lives in a big cage.

• love, really, dog

• fluffy, brown, big

• who, with, in

Identify the descriptive adjective/s in the sentence:

Sir Garfield Sobers is a famous cricketer.

• Garfield

• cricketer

• famous

Pick out the adjective in the sentence:

Amanda is the fastest swimmer on our team.

• is

• the

• fastest

• swimmer

Pick out the adjectives in the sentence:

The vicious dog attacked the kind postman.

• vicious, kind

• the, dog

• attacked, postman

Melayna told us a romantic, sad story yesterday.

• Melayna, told

• romantic, sad

• us, a

• story, yesterday

Pick out the adjective in the sentence:

The sums we did yesterday were difficult.

• sums

• difficult

• did

• yesterday

We had to climb the winding stairs to see the ocean.

• we

• had

• winding

• stairs

Chynna bought an expensive watch.

• Chynna

• watch

• expensive

• an