Quiz for Lessons 31-35 - Parts of Speech - Adjectives

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Instructions: Find all the adjectives in these sentences.

1. Our first idea met with many strong complaints.

2. The happy shout from the three frolicking children greeted their dad on his return.

3. Star Wars is an exciting movie for most people.

4. The flooded basement caused terrible damage.

5. The Johanson family just returned from a hot, exhausting trip to Arizona.

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Answers:

1. Our first idea met with many strong complaints.

2. The happy shout from the three frolicking children greeted their dad on his return.

3. Star Wars is an exciting movie for most people.

4. The flooded basement caused terrible damage.

5. The Johanson family just returned from a hot, exhausting trip to Arizona.

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Quiz for Lessons 231 - 235 - Parts of the Sentence - Adverb Infinitives

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Instructions: Find the infinitives or infinitive phrases in these sentences and tell what word they modify.

1. The salesman is likely to go and to return in one day.

2. The crowd had come to demonstrate against his cruelty.

3. I would be happy to help you.

4. Frightened by the bear, I was unable to move or run.

5. No one came to see the old man.

6. The commentator stopped to clarify his statement.

7. In this storm it is hard to see.

8. The deer returned to eat more from our yard.

9. We stopped to view the beautiful sunset.

10. I was able to grab the rope and climb to safety.

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Answers:

1. The salesman is likely to go and to return in one day.

- to go and to return in one day modify likely

2. The crowd had come to demonstrate against his cruelty.

- to demonstrate against his cruelty modifies had come

3. I would be happy to help you.

- to help you modifies happy

4. Frightened by the bear, I was unable to move or run.

- to move and (to) run modify unable

5. No one came to see the old man.

- to see the old man modifies came

6. The commentator stopped to clarify his statement.

- to clarify his statement modifies stopped

7. In this storm it is hard to see.

- to see modifies hard

8. The deer returned to eat more from our yard.

- to eat more from our yard modifies returned

9. We stopped to view the beautiful sunset.

- to view the beautiful sunset modifies stopped

10. I was able to grab the rope and climb to safety.

- to grab the rope and (to) climb to safety modify able

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Lesson 35 - Parts of Speech - Adjectives

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Adjectives are not limited in how many can be used with a noun to modify it as in the big black frightening curly bear. These adjectives follow an order pattern when two or more are used together. There is no written rule but just common usage.

     Examples:  
     Correct:the second three days
     Incorrect: three second the days
     Correct: both his friends
     Incorrect: his both friends

Instructions: Because many words can be both pronouns and adjectives depending on how they are used in a sentence, decide if the italicized words are pronouns or adjectives in the following sentences. Remember that pronouns stand alone, but adjectives are used to modify nouns.

1. Do either of you have any of this material. Any amount would help.

2. Each girl did her chores, and their mother gave each a hug.

3. This is our answer, and no one disagrees.

4. Both have many chances to play, but neither one is better.

5. What is your name because neither of us knows it?

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Answers:

1. Do either of you have any of this material. Any amount would help.

2. Each girl did her chores, and their mother gave each a hug.

3. This is our answer, and no one disagrees.

4. Both have many chances to play, but neither one is better.

5. What is your name because neither of us knows it?

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Lesson 235 - Parts of the Sentence - Verbals - Adverb Infinitives

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An infinitive is a verbal that is to plus a verb form. It can be used as an adverb. 

 

Examples: 

to be, to see, to be seen, to be eaten

Adverb infinitives are used to modify verbs. They usually tell why. Adverb infinitives are used to modify predicate adjectives. They may also be compound.

An infinitive phrase is made up of an infinitive and any complements (direct objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, or modifiers).

Instructions: Find the infinitives or infinitive phrases in these sentences and tell what word they modify.

 

1. The inspector came to check the dam for leaks.

2. Fred finally went to work.

3. Paul arrived in New York to study physics and to learn more.

4. Are you old enough to drive?

5. The new soldiers were ready to listen and obey.

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Answers:

1. The inspector came to check the dam for leaks.

- to check the dam for leaks modifies came

2. Fred finally went to work.

- to work modifies went

3. Paul arrived in New York to study physics and to learn more.

- to study physics and to learn more modify arrived

4. Are you old enough to drive?

- to drive modifies old

5. The new soldiers were ready to listen and obey.

- to listen and (to) obey modify ready

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Lesson 34 - Parts of Speech - Adjectives

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Verb forms can also be used as adjectives. They are called participial adjectives.

     Examples:
     the lost mine
     the howling wolf

Instructions: Pick out the adjectives in these sentences.

1. The soaking rain caused much damage.

2. The broken dish cut the crying girl.

3. A great work was done by the person with a giving spirit.

4. The laughing hyena was sleeping in its cage.

5. The eager student found the torn book.

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1. The soaking rain caused much damage.

2. The broken dish cut the crying girl.

3. A great work was done by the person with a giving spirit.

4. The laughing hyena was sleeping in its cage.

5. The eager student found the torn book.

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Lesson 234 - Parts of the Sentence - Verbals - Adverb Infinitives

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An infinitive is a verbal that is to plus a verb form. It can be used as an adverb. 

 

Examples: 

to be, to see, to be seen, to be eaten

Adverb infinitives are used to modify verbs. They usually tell why. Adverb infinitives are used to modify predicate adjectives. They may also be compound.

An infinitive phrase is made up of an infinitive and any complements (direct objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, or modifiers).

Instructions: Find the infinitives or infinitive phrases in these sentences and tell what word they modify.

1. The actors performed there to entertain and to be seen.

2. The amount of danger was impossible to imagine or to describe.

3. I have come to ask a favor and to seek your help.

4. Are you unable to see or to read the sign?

5. The bucking horse jumped high to throw me and to break my neck.

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Answers:

1. The actors performed there to entertain and to be seen.

- to entertain and to be seen modify performed

2. The amount of danger was impossible to imagine or to describe.

- to imagine and to describe modify impossible

3. I have come to ask a favor and to seek your help.

- to ask a favor and to seek your help modify have come

4. Are you unable to see or to read the sign?

- to see and to read the sign modify unable

5. The bucking horse jumped high to throw me and to break my neck.

- to throw me and to break my neck modify jumped

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Lesson 33 - Parts of Speech - Adjectives

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Proper nouns, possessives and modifiers made from them, and common nouns can be adjectives.

     Examples:
     July storms
     winter weather
     Jim's boat
     boy's bed

Some authorities call nouns used to described another noun, noun adjuncts. They tell us whose or what kind.

Instructions: Find the adjectives in these sentences..

1. Dan's new hat blew down the man's stairway.

2. Stormy spring weather can cause many flash floods.

3. Pam's new suitcase was ready for the Canadian trip.

4. December winds can make a dangerous Christmas trip.

5. The student's hope was the teacher's happiness.

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1. Dan's new hat blew down the man's stairway.

2. Stormy spring weather can cause many flash floods.

3. Pam's new suitcase was ready for the Canadian trip.

4. December winds can make a dangerous Christmas trip.

5. The student's hope was the teacher's happiness.

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Lesson 233 - Parts of the Sentence - Verbals - Adverb Infinitives

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An infinitive is a verbal that is to plus a verb form. It can be used as an adverb. 

 

Examples: 

to be, to see, to be seen, to be eaten

Adverb infinitives are used to modify predicate adjectives.

An infinitive phrase is made up of an infinitive and any complements (direct objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, or modifiers).

Instructions: Find the infinitives or infinitive phrases in these sentences and tell what word they modify.

1. The van is ready to go.

2. You are sure to meet him again.

3. My horse is hard to catch.

4. I am happy to be of service.

5. Joan is likely to change her mind.

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1. The van is ready to go.

- to go modifies ready

2. You are sure to meet him again.

- to meet him again modifies sure

3. My horse is hard to catch.

- to catch modifies hard

4. I am happy to be of service.

- to be of service modifies happy

5. Joan is likely to change her mind.

- to change her mind modifies likely

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Lesson 32 - Parts of Speech - Adjectives

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Pronouns used as adjectives are called pronominal adjectives. Other pronouns can also be used as adjectives, but they are not always adjectives as the seven mentioned in Lesson 31. Demonstrative pronouns, this, that, these, those; interrogative pronouns, whose, which, what; and indefinite pronouns, another, any, both, each, either, many, neither, one, other, some; when used with a noun become adjectives. Cardinal and ordinal numbers can be adjectives.

     Examples:
     ten students (cardinal)
     the tenth student (ordinal)

Instructions: List the adjectives in these sentences.

1. Whose car is that red one in the driveway?

2. Those drapes go well with this brown carpet.

3. The two men were wondering what signal had brought many people to their rescue.

4. The third person entering the city park won another prize.

5. That tie is a good one for this suit.

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Answers:

1. Whose car is that red one in the driveway?

2. Those drapes go well with this brown carpet.

3. The two men were wondering what signal had brought many people to their rescue.

4. The third person entering the city park won another prize.

5. That tie is a good one for this suit.

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Lesson 232 - Parts of the Sentence - Verbals - Adverb Infinitives

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An infinitive is a verbal that is to plus a verb form. It can be used as an adverb. 

 

Examples: 

to be, to see, to be seen, to be eaten

Adverb infinitives are used to modify verbs. They usually tell why.

An infinitive phrase is made up of an infinitive and any complements (direct objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, or modifiers).

Instructions: Find the infinitive phrases in these sentences and tell what word they modify.

1. She came to explain the answer.

2. The kids went to see the circus.

3. On the rough road I drove carefully to prevent any damage.

4. I returned a different way to avoid further damage.

5. We stopped at a cafe to eat lunch.

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Answers:

1. She came to explain the answer.

- to explain the answer modifies came

2. The kids went to see the circus.

- to see the circus modifies went

3. On the rough road I drove carefully to prevent any damage.

- to prevent any damage modifies drove

4. I returned a different way to avoid further damage.

- to avoid further damage modifies returned

5. We stopped at a cafe to eat lunch.

- to eat lunch modifies stopped

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Lesson 31 - Parts of Speech - Adjectives

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Adjectives, another part of speech, give us a great deal of terminology. I will share it with you, but all that is really important is that adjectives modify or affect the meaning of nouns and pronouns and tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many about the nouns or pronouns they modify. They generally come before the noun or pronoun they modify, but there are exceptions to that rule. How and why they are different will be explained in later lessons. They still tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many.

There are seven (7) words in the English language that are always adjectives. They are the articles a, an, and the and the possessives my, our, your, and their. (The possessives are from the possessive pronoun list but are always used with nouns as adjectives.) Being only seven in number, one should memorize them so they are immediately recognized as adjectives.

     Examples:
     The neighbor girl likes chocolate ice cream.
     Mr. Johanson is tall, dark, and handsome.

Some authorities like to distinguish between what they call true adjectives and determiners, but both still just tell which, whose, what kind, and how many. Those words are the key to adjectives and should be memorized to make adjectives easy.

Instructions: Pick out the adjectives in the following sentences.

1. The heavy, red dress of Queen Elizabeth weighed over fifty pounds.

2. My sister chose two shirts for my graduation present.

3. That small Mexican restaurant in the next block serves fresh meals.

4. The little black dog barked at the well-dressed stranger.

5. An old wood fence had caught several discarded candy wrappers.

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Answers:

1. The heavy, red dress of Queen Elizabeth weighed over fifty pounds.

2. My sister chose two shirts for my graduation present.

3. That small Mexican restaurant in the next block serves fresh meals.

4. The little black dog barked at the well-dressed stranger.

5. An old wood fence had caught several discarded candy wrappers.

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Lesson 231 - Parts of the Sentence - Verbals - Adverb Infinitives

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An infinitive is a verbal that is to plus a verb form. It can be used as an adverb. 

 

Examples: 

to be, to see, to be seen, to be eaten

Adverb infinitives are used to modify verbs. They usually tell why.

Instructions: Find the infinitives in these sentences and tell what word they modify.

1. The man came to confess.

2. We should study to learn.

3. The girls were waiting to be asked.

4. Our neighbor called to apologize.

5. I went to the hospital to rest.

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Answers:

1. The man came to confess.

- to confess modifies came

2. We should study to learn.

- to learn modifies should study

3. The girls were waiting to be asked.

- to be asked modifies were waiting

4. Our neighbor called to apologize.

- to apologize modifies called

5. I went to the hospital to rest.

- to rest modifies went

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