adjectives

 

A ___________________ is a word, phrase, or clause that modifies—that is, gives information about—another word in the same sentence. For example, in the following sentence, the word "burger" is modified by the word "vegetarian": Example: I'm going to the Saturn Café for a vegetarian burger.

• modifier

• article

• adjective

• adverb

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

Modifiers give additional information about nouns, pronouns, verbs, and themselves to make those things more definite. There are two types of modifiers: ____________ and ____________.

• noun and pronoun

• adjective and adverb

• conjunction and interjection

• article or modifier

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Adjectives describe nouns by answering these questions:

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­___________ is it?

____________ are there?

____________ is there?

_________ is it?

An adjective can be a single word, a phrase, or a clause.

• which one, how many, how much, what kind

• why, how, where, when, how frequent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

There are three ______________ in the English language: a, an, and the. They are placed before nouns and show whether a given noun is general or specific.

I want a cheeseburger.

• modifiers

• adjectives

• articles

• adverbs

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CCSS.L.1.1H

The _________________ article (a, an) is used before a noun that is general or when its identity is not known.

• definite

• indefinite

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CCSS.L.1.1H

The _______________ article (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader. There are certain situations in which a noun takes no article.

• definite

• indefinite

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CCSS.L.1.1H

A _______________ adjective is an adjective that was derived from a proper noun and is therefore capitalized. Proper adjectives include words for nationalities, languages, and ethnicities (e.g., “Japanese,” “Inuit,” “French”) 

• common

• proper

• compound

• possessive

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

A ___________ adjective is a combination of two or more words which can perform the role of an adjective in a sentence. 

• proper

• compound

• demonstrative

• indefinite

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CCSS.L.4.1D

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

A __________________ adjective, according to the Collins Dictionary, is “an adjective such as 'my' or 'your' which shows who or what something belongs to or is connected with”.

• possessive

• demonstrative

• interrogative

• indefinite

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

A _____________ adjective is a special adjective (often called a determiner) that identifies a noun or pronoun by expressing its position as near or far (including in time). The ___________ adjectives are 'this,' 'that,' 'these,' and 'those.

• possessive

• demonstrative

• interrogative

• indefinite

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E