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Adjectives and adverbs: two different jobs

English · Grammar & Punctuation · ages 7-8
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  1. What job does friendly do in 'The friendly dog barked'?

    • an adjective
    • a noun
    • an adverb

  2. Which word tells how the birds build in 'Birds quietly build nests'?

    • Birds
    • quietly
    • nests

  3. Add -ly to loud to form an adverb. Which spelling do you get?

    • louding
    • louds
    • loudly

  4. Choose the word telling how the dog walks: 'The dog walks ___.'

    • slowly
    • slowness
    • slowing

  5. In 'A fast rabbit runs fast,' which statement explains the two uses of fast?

    • Fast describes rabbit as an adjective and runs as an adverb.
    • Both uses are adjectives that describe the rabbit itself.
    • Both uses are adverbs that describe how the rabbit runs.

  6. Which word in 'The kind teacher smiled kindly' is the adjective?

    • Kind
    • Teacher
    • Kindly

  7. Which word in 'The brave knight fought bravely' is the adverb?

    • Brave
    • Knight
    • Bravely

  8. In 'The soup is unusually hot,' what does unusually describe?

    • soup, the noun
    • hot, the adjective
    • is, the linking verb

  9. Use an adjective before puppy and the related -ly adverb for wagged: 'The ___ puppy wagged its tail ___.'

    • happy, happy
    • happy, happily
    • happily, happily

  10. Repair 'She is a happily girl' by using the adjective that describes girl.

    • She is a happy girl.
    • She are a happy girl.
    • She is a happily girl.
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Adjectives and adverbs: two different jobs W1-mt_j351evNNnB-s1

  1. an adjective · Friendly describes the noun dog. Its -ly ending does not make it an adverb.
  2. quietly · Quietly describes build. An adverb can appear before its verb.
  3. loudly · Loud plus -ly makes loudly, an adverb that can describe how an action happens.
  4. slowly · Slowly describes the walking. Slowness names a quality; slowing does not complete this sentence.
  5. Fast describes rabbit as an adjective and runs as an adverb. · Fast describes a noun in fast rabbit. It describes a verb in runs fast.
  6. Kind · Kind describes the teacher, a noun, so it is the adjective. Kindly describes how the teacher smiled.
  7. Bravely · Bravely describes how the knight fought, so it's the adverb. Brave describes the knight, so it's the adjective.
  8. hot, the adjective · Unusually tells how hot the soup is. It modifies the adjective hot.
  9. happy, happily · Happy describes puppy. Happily describes how the puppy wagged its tail. Check both gaps.
  10. She is a happy girl. · Happy is the adjective. Change happily back to happy, keeping is.
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