Adjectives and Adverbs

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• How can I teach definite and indefinite articles in a classroom setting?
• What are the differences between definite articles and indefinite articles?
• Is the word "vegetarian" a noun or adjective? I figured both "vegetarian" and "vegan" were adjectives describing ones diet and lifestyle but I just wanted to know for sure.
• What are the adjectives in the following sentence?: The green gate was rusty.
• What are the adjectives in the following sentence?: The green shutters on the tallest house are closed.
• What are the adjectives in the following sentence?: It is often problematic when bad computers produce incorrect results.
• What are the adjectives in the following sentence?: A lot of small cars were involved in a large traffic jam near the busy intersection.
• What are the adjectives in the following sentence?: The lengthy detective novel had a plot that was too simple.
• What are the adverbs in the following sentence?: He read the book very quickly and ended up poorly summarizing it.
• What are the adverbs in the following sentence?: They hurriedly set up their tents because the rain was falling very hard.
• What are the adverbs in the following sentence?: The rain was falling very hard as the delivery man quickly delivered the package.
• What are the numeral adjectives, if any, in the following sentence?: The five large roosters crowed six times.
• What are the numeral adjectives, if any, in the following sentence?: There were many reasons why the five jurors refused to submit a guilty verdict.
• What is/are the adverb(s) in the following sentence?: He accurately guessed the weather for the whole week.
• What is/are the adverb(s) in the following sentence?: The snail quickly crawled past the hare that was slowly hopping forward.
• What is the participle adjective in the following sentence?: The instruction manual is very confusing.
• What is the participle adjective in the following sentence?: The funny sound coming from the car was very alarming.
• What is the participle adjective in the following sentence?: We were excited by our friend's visit.
• Can numbers be adjectives?
• What are the numeral adjectives in the following sentence?: The three pronged approach worked very well.
• What are the numeral adjectives in the following sentence?: The wanted to use 32 ounce cups.
• What are the numeral adjectives in the following sentence?: The flock of thirty birds migrated south during the winter.
• What is a proper adjective?
• Does the following sentence have any proper adjectives? If so, where?: The data seems to be following a Gaussian distribution.
• Does the following sentence have any proper adjectives? If so, where?: Were hamburgers named after the German city?
• Does the following sentence have any proper adjectives? If so, where?: These paintings are from the Victorian era.
• Does the following sentence have any proper adjectives? If so, where?: We will likely follow the Gregorian for the next millennium.
• Does the following sentence have any proper adjectives? If so, where?: She will be serving Alaskan salmon for dinner.
• Does the following sentence have any proper adjectives? If so, where?: Swiss chocolate is supposed to be the best in the world.
• Does the following sentence have any proper adjectives? If so, where?: The data seem to reflect a Brownian motion.
• Does the following sentence have any proper adjectives? If so, where?: Ricardian equivalence is a very important concept in economics.
• Does the following sentence have any adverbs? If so, where?: A glow just barely appears on the northern horizon.
• Does the following sentence have any adverbs? If so, where?: The plane slowly landed.
• Does the following sentence have any adverbs? If so, where?: Lights moved unexpectedly fast across the sky.
• Does the following sentence have any adverbs? If so, where?: Fran quickly toward the finish line.
• Does the following sentence have any adverbs? If so, where?: Many explorers searched endlessly for new lands.
• Does the following sentence have any adverbs? If so, where?: My friend drove away in her new car.
• Does the following sentence have any adverbs? If so, where?: The stream near our house is heavily polluted.
• How can you use an adverb to change the following sentence?: They walked to the edge of the pool before jumping in.
• How an the following sentence be improved with the addition of an adverb?: The divers swam along the coral reef, but swam back to the boat after seeing several sharks.
• How can the following sentence be improved with the addition of an adverb?: Mark and John were riding their bicycles when Mark fell off of his.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: Several students voiced their disagreement when the university's president announced the new policy.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: The mayor pledged to spend more money on the city's roads after many residents complained about the numerous potholes.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: The last time the movie theater did not play a newly released movie was when it was being run by the old owner.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: The police were pursuing the car as it raced through town.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: They put a tarp over their truck because they were worried that the incoming sandstorm could damage the truck's new paint.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: The crew followed the captains orders, as the boat headed toward a several icebergs.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: The crew followed the captains orders, as the boat headed toward several icebergs.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: Birds were chirping, while I watched several deer run through the woods.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: The scientists were shocked that someone cloned a woolly mammoth; the scientific community had believed that this would be impossible to accomplish.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: She drove through the snowstorm.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: She laid back in her chair and sipped some lemonade, as the breeze blew over her.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: He cried out for help when he got stuck in the revolving door.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: When he walked outside, the sun was shining so he put on his favorite pair of sunglasses.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: We were waiting for the train to arrive, when we heard someone playing the violin.
• What is one way that the following sentence can be improved with the addition of an adverb?: The folder with the incriminating evidence was lying on the table, while the detectives were searching the apartment.
• What is one adjective that can be added to the following sentence to improve it?: We went to bed early, because we had a drive ahead of us the next day.
• What adjectives can be added to the following sentence to make it more informative?: The dog chased after the ball that I threw.
• What adjectives can be added to the following sentence to make it more informative?: The coach handed the players their jerseys, before the game.
• What are some adjectives that can be added to the following sentence to make it more informative?: We had to cut down the tree near my house, because we were worried that it may fall.
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: The air quality was low due to pollution.
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: We had a lot of high quality work come through ever since the new employees were hired.
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: The new solar plant will produce enough electricity for the small town and possibly enough for the nearby unincorporated neighborhoods.
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: Where are the blue birds that were perched on the old tree?
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: His broken alarm clock startled him in the middle of the night.
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: The window is broken, so a lot of cold air is coming in.
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: The large mansion is said to be inhabited by scary ghosts.
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: The old professor kept records of all of his crazy science experiments.
• What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?: The eccentric billionaire made sure that no one would know much about his secret life.
• What is the difference between evaluative and descriptive adjectives?
• What is an evaluative adjective?
• What are descriptive adjectives to describe Odysseus from The Odyssey?
• What are examples of adjectives?
• What is an interrogative adjective?
• What are examples of interrogative adjectives?
• What are examples of indefinite adjectives?
• Can a proper noun function as a possessive adjective? Can the names of specific people act as adjectives?
• What is the difference between an adjective and a determiner?
• What are possessive adjectives?
• What are the possessive adjective(s) in this sentence? My Sister and I love our new apartment.
• What is the compound adjective in the sentence below?
• Is the word "ugly" a compound noun or adjective? My friend and I are having a debate about this.
• Which word completes the sentence with a compound adjective? Some birds thrive in _____ forests. Which word completes the sentence with a compound adjective? tempera? Some birds thrive in _____ forests.
• Which word is the compound adjective in this sentence? Those hothouse tomatoes grow in humid glass enclosures.
• What is the job of adverb? Is it used to modify a verb or what? Please explain.
• Is the word "challenging" a noun, verb, adjective?
• Which word in the sentence is a predicate adjective? Please explain why along with the answer.
• Are these adjectives or adverbs?
• Can someone explain the difference between an adjective and adverb?
• Could you help me identify the adverb in the following sentences?
• Can you help me find the adverbs in this sentence?
• How do you identify adverbs in a sentence? Is there a rule?
• Is this an adverb or noun?
• Do adverbs have to describe a main verb?
• Is "already" an adverb? I need help with English, and there is this one sentence that I have stumbled upon and I am wondering if already is the adverb modifying another adverb.
• Is the word "fair" a noun, adverb, verb, or adjective?
• What is an adverb clause introduced by?
• What category does the word "no" fall in to? Is it a negative adverb?
• What are some adjectives that describe snow or winter?
• What are good adjectives that start with the letter "J"?
• What adjectives can I use to describe attitude?
• Do you know any adjectives to describe one's laughter? I need adjectives to describe ones laughter, for example: chiming laughter.
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• Is the word "large" an Adverb, Adjective, Pronoun, or Noun?
• What's the adjective form of "leader"?
• Could you explain comparative and superlative adjectives?
• What are the differences between adverbs and adjectives? I want to know why they are easily confused as well.
• Is "excited" an adjective or a verb?
• When do adjectives come AFTER the noun in English? Example:I speak English well.
• What is a demonstrative adjective?
• What is an Adjective Phrases? Is this an adjective phrases? "My college roommate was smart, pretty, and had tons of friends."
• How do you use United States as an adjective??
• What is the adverb and adjectives in these following sentences? What is the difference between adjectives and adverbs?
• Which words make up the adjective phrase in this sentence?
• Do these sentences contain an adjective, adverb, or noun clause and why?
• Is there an adjective form of "career"? Kind of like how the adjective form of "money" is "financial." I know that this is kind of a weird sounding question.
• What word in the following sentence is an adjective? Jason's sturdy ship sailed bravely across the wine-dark sea.
• Which one of the following sentences correctly uses a comparative adjective?
• Can you end a sentence with an adjective? Example: Hey son, you played exceptional!
• Are these adjectives or adverbs? I need some help with my home work, can someone help me out?
• Is "deadly" an adjective or adverb?
• What is the adjective for the word "courage"?
• Is the word "so" an adjective? ex: That dress was sooooooooooooooo fabulous.
• Is "a lot" an adjective?
• Are numbers adjectives? Is two or three an adjective? Is several or many an adjective?
• When can "either" and "most" be considered adjectives?
• What is another (correct) word for 1,000 trillion?
• What is the difference between a number and a numeral?
• Can I start a sentence with a number? If so, do have to write the number out, or can I use the numeral (if it is over ten)?
• How do I hyphenate an age, such as 23 year old or twenty three year old? Is it 23 year-old and twenty-three year-old?
• What are the different classes of nouns?
• What is the ordinal number?
• What is the meaning of the word "the"? Is it a noun or verb or what?
• What is the meaning of "myriad"? Is this word a noun or an adjective?
• What are the proper adjectives for Rome, Alaska, and Norway?
• Is "are" an adjective or adverb?
• I'm writing a typography and it is going to be about life. What are some adjectives describing life?
• What are some words starting with "N" that can be used to describe someone?
• What is a noun phrase in linguistics? Can it be a single pronoun? Can it be a noun preceded by an article and an adjective?
• What is an alphanumeric character?
• What is an opening adverb?
• What is an example of descriptive adjective sentence?
• In this sentence: "Laughing is good for health," is "laughing" a noun?
• Which one of the words or phrases is the superlative form of an adjective: less, slower, more rapidly, or most active?
• What is the verb form of the noun "surveillance"?
• What is a "clause" in English?
• What does "crude" mean?
• Is it correct to say "It's a 4 hour stopover."?
• What is an adjective, other than awesome, that starts with the letter "A" to describe a person?
• What is the definition of colloquial language?
• What is an adjective for the word "modern"?
• Why do some people say "maths" instead of "math"? Is this the way it is pronounced in European countries?
• In English, numbers less than how much must be written as words, not as numerals?
• Two or more nouns are connected by what punctuation if they are used as adjectives?
• What is the use of a word that sounds like the meaning of the word?
• What are some adjectives for the word "six"?
• We had the 70's the 80's and the 90's. What is this decade called?
• Is there a single word in English for denote a period of 12 years (like "Decade" for a period of 10 years)?
• What is the difference between routine and schedule? Are these words adjectives?
• Which is the proper way of writing about the 20th century? Should 20th be written out? Should there be a hyphen between the two words? Should either or both words be capitalized?
• Is "wages" a countable noun?
• Are all possessives and demonstratives pronouns, rather than adjectives? If so, why is this?
• How do you know when to use "a" or "the" is a sentence? For example, "Are you riding a bus?" or "Are you riding the bus?"
• What is the noun and what is the adjective in this sentence: "An allegory is a narrative."?
• What are some examples of numeral adjectives?
• What is a definite numeral adjective?
• What is a distributive numeral adjective?
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• Is 'this" a possessive adjective?
• Is "her" a possessive pronoun or an object pronoun or does it depend on the sentence it is used in? What are some examples?
• Can anyone give me a list of possessive pronouns?
• If I use the word "accused" as a noun, representing multiple people who are accused, what would the possessive form be? As in "the accused lives"?
• What is the correct plural possessive spelling of lady? Is it Lady's, Ladys' Ladies'?
• Do adjectives modify nouns, pronouns, and often adjectives?
• What are 10 possessive adjectives?
• What are all of the possessive pronouns that can be used as predicate nouns?
• When a noun ends in "x" where does the possessive apostrophe go?
• How can you tell if possessive pronoun is used as an adjective?
• What is the plural possessive form of American?
• What is the plural possessive form of American?
• Are possessive pronouns spelled with apostrophes?
• Do possessive pronouns sometimes take the place of a noun?
• What are the 10 types of adjectives?
• What are the 10 types of adjectives?
• What is the antonym of possessive?
• What part of speech is the word "its" (possessive form)? Is it a noun, verb, or what? Is the word "it" a noun?
• Is “that” an interrogative pronoun?
• In the phrases "my book" and "his book" are "my" and "his" both pronouns or adjectives? Or is one of them a pronoun and the other an adjective?
• Is it correct to say "The dog plays with its bone" or "the dog plays with his bone"? Are both correct and why?
• Do indefinite pronouns require specific antecedents?
• Are reciprocal pronouns formed from the personal pronoun plus “self” such as “himself”?
• Is it true that, in general, modifiers should be placed close to the words they modify?
• Could male and female be a compound antecedent referenced by the plural pronoun “them”?
• Which of these pronouns is the third person plural possessive: That, They, Who, or theirs?
• In the sentence, "I'm cleaning my room," Cleaning is the verb, my is the possessive adjective. Which is the subject and why?
• How can I teach possessive adjectives?
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• What do adverbs modify?
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• What is the adverb in this sentence "The team eagerly awaited their next opponent"?
• What is the adverb in this sentence "The player politely asked the official a question"?
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• Is it "all right" or "alright"?
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• Which letters do most adverbs end in?
• Is "recorded accordingly" incorrect grammar?
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• Without DNA, humans wouldn’t exist. Is it wouldn't or won't?
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• Which word is the adverb in the sentence: "Quietly, they made their way home."?
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