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Adjective Exercises for Creative Writing

The document provides instructions to identify and classify different types of adjectives in sentences. It asks the reader to underline adjectives in a paragraph about bonsai trees and classify adjectives in 10 sentences. It then provides a story and asks the reader to underline 25 adjectives and connect them to the words they modify, classifying each type of adjective used.

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Adjective Exercises for Creative Writing

The document provides instructions to identify and classify different types of adjectives in sentences. It asks the reader to underline adjectives in a paragraph about bonsai trees and classify adjectives in 10 sentences. It then provides a story and asks the reader to underline 25 adjectives and connect them to the words they modify, classifying each type of adjective used.

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  • Identifying Adjectives: Covers exercises on recognizing and using adjectives, including examples and practice sentences.

Exercise A Underline each adjective in the following paragraph.

Do not include the


articles a, an, and the.

EXAMPLE [1] Bonsai is the art of growing tiny trees.

[1] In Japan, some people grow miniature trees that have a famous history and an
important place in horticultural art. [2] Through pruning and fertilization, the trees are
trained to keep the shape and proportion of larger trees. [3] The trees often have small
leaves and small fruit. [4] The trees have an old and wind-swept appearance, as though
they had grown in the outdoors. [5] With bonsai, gardeners can create realistic landscapes
in pots and carry scenes of mountain crags or vast plains into their homes.

Select and classify the adjective in the following sentences.


1. My father has bought a new car.
2. There aren’t’ many people at the cinema.
3. Which sari do you want?
4. Ramesh is a clever boy.
5. All men are equal.
6. Here are some grapes.
7. Every word of her story is false.
8. Neither boy has done his homework.
9. That girl won the second prize.
10. There are tall trees on either side of the road.

Exercise B Underline each of the twenty-five adjectives in the following story, and draw an arrow from
the adjective to the word or words it modifies. Treat hyphenated compound words like spine-tingling as
one word. Do not include the articles a, an, and the. Describe each kind of adjectives

EXAMPLE Scary stories can make the imagination run wild. COMMON DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE

On hot summer nights, Julio and the other boys sleep out in the yard. They put up a
tent in a dark corner, where the trees and bushes are thick. That way the boys can easily
imagine they are in wild, uninhabited country.
One evening Mike suggested that they tell ghost stories or tales of bear hunts. After a
particularly spine-tingling story, Mike couldn’t sleep; he was too nervous.
About midnight he saw something move in the shadows. “Yeow!” he cried out. “There
is a big bear! It is really huge!”
In the sudden confusion, the small tent collapsed on top of the boys; each one
seemed eager to go in a different direction. Anxious parents ran out of the nearby house.
They found a coal-black dog. Like a bear, this animal was very curious. It was sniffing at
the tangle of arms, legs, and bodies under the tent.

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