Practice Makes Perfect

Adjectives

Adjectivesare words that describe nouns. They tell the size, color,

or quality of something: a bigroom, the redcar, four interesting

books. Here are some commonly used adjectives:

beautiful fast loud tall

big funny old terrible

black handsome quiet thirsty

boring interesting right ugly

careful late sad young

careless little short white

early long slow wrong

Circle the adjective that makes more sense in the sentence.

1. I often go to a green/latemovie.


2. Their little/rightboy is six years old.


3. The wrong/youngteacher is very smart.


4. We took the fast/loosetrain to New York.


5. The old/funnystory made me laugh.


6. Do you know that handsome/earlyman?


7. She had an early/carelessbreakfast.


8. I saw the long/terribleaccident.


9. The new house has boring/whitedoors.


10. The green/shortboy is my cousin.

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