Adjectives — Answer Key
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which word is the adjective? The hungry fox ran through the forest.
A) fox
B) ran
C) hungry
D) forest
Hungry tells us how the fox is feeling—it needs food. Fox and forest are both nouns, and ran is an action verb, so hungry is the only describing word.
2. Which adjective tells how many? She picked three ripe apples.
A) picked
B) three
C) ripe
D) apples
Number words like three are adjectives that answer the question, How many? Ripe describes what the apples are like, but three tells the exact count.
3. Which sentence uses an adjective correctly?
A) The happy sang a song.
B) She wore a pretty dress.
C) He quickly the ball.
D) They jumped very table.
The word pretty is an adjective placed right before the noun dress to describe how it looks. That is exactly how adjectives work in English sentences.
4. Which word is NOT an adjective? The small, furry rabbit hopped away.
A) small
B) furry
C) rabbit
D) All are adjectives
Rabbit is a noun because it names the animal in the sentence. Small and furry are the adjectives describing the rabbit—one tells its size, the other tells its texture.
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. In several cookies, the word several tells how many.
Several means more than two but not a huge number—usually somewhere around three to six. It is a number word that tells how many cookies there are.
2. In the curly hair, the adjective is curly.
Curly describes the shape of the hair—full of little loops and twists. Hair is the noun, so curly is the word doing the describing.
3. The word ancient means very old.
Ancient is a stronger, more vivid adjective than old, used for things thousands of years old like pyramids or dinosaurs. It paints a much clearer picture than simply saying old.
4. In a striped shirt, the adjective describes a pattern.
Striped means having lines that repeat across the fabric, like a zebra. Stripes are a type of design or pattern we see on the shirt.
5. The adjective in the empty jar is empty.
Empty tells us there is nothing inside the jar. Jar is the noun that names the container, so empty is the describing word added in front.