CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH 8: LANGUAGE WORKSHEET 7.

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Language worksheet 7.2

In this worksheet, you will focus on adjectives.
Remember that adjectives give descriptive information about nouns, noun phrases and noun
clauses. For example:
a big book (noun)
the terrible film on television (noun phrase)
it’s interesting that you didn’t like the film (noun clause)
Adjectives can also be used on their own, as a complement:
The film was terrible. They are greedy.
Adjectives can often be identified by their suffixes: –ous (enormous), –ent (frequent),
–ful (powerful), –ant (pleasant), –less (careless), –ive (impressive), –y (greedy), –able (adorable).
The text below describes someone waking up on a sunny day. Read the text, then answer the
questions that follow.

It was a clear day. Looking out of my window I felt cheerful when I saw the cloudless sky.
A bright, little bird with a yellow chest flew past and sat on my garden fence. The
streaming sunshine created a perfect invitation to go outside. Yesterday I sat restless in
bed but today I quickly dressed and went to lay in my hammock with the novel I was
reading. I was desirous to carry on reading the story, but first I looked around again at
the glorious scene in my garden. I breathed in the light, beautiful, fresh air. Out of the
corner of my eye I saw a brilliant twinkle. It was the sunlight reflecting on a small mirror
hanging on my wind chime. I looked up at the hopeful, blue sky and said to
myself thank you.

1 Underline all the adjectives in the text.

2 List the adjectives that come before nouns in noun phrases.

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3 List the adjectives that come after a pronoun and verb in a clause.

4 Circle any suffixes that indicate that a word is an adjective.

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