Adjective Worksheet for Middle School

The first worksheet is partially a review of the kinds of adjectives. The students will identify adjectives and tell the nouns they modify. They will also identify adjectives according to their types.

A. DIRECTIONS: Underline the adjectives in the following sentences and circle the noun they modify. There are five adjectives in each sentence.

1. Students will give an oral report on the vanishing rainforest and endangered species.
2. Many people need more money to buy essential items for their home and gas for the car.
3. The music folder was on his gorgeous grand piano.
4. Some actors are very superstitious and do not like black cats or broken mirrors.

B. DIRECTIONS: Put an "A" if the adjective is an article, "P" is it is possessive, and "W" if it tells what kind.

1. their ___
2. shy ___
3. verbal ___
4. the ___
5. my ___
6. your ___
7. special ___
8. her ___
9. an ___
10. our ___

C. DIRECTIONS: Write five adjectives for each topic:

1. sports
2. forests
3. movies
4. food
5. clothes

ANSWERS:

A. Adjectives are listed first, then the nouns.

1. an, oral - report, the, vanishing - rainforest, endangered - species.
2. Many - people, more - money, essential - items, their - home, the - car
3. The, music - folder, his, gorgeous, grand - piano
4. Some, very, superstitious - actors, black - cats, broken - mirrors

B. 1P, 2W, 3W, 4A, 5P, 6P, 7W, 8P, 9A, 10P

C. Answers will vary.

With the following worksheet, the student will identify adjectives from a literary work. They will also learn the different kinds of adjectives by filling in the blanks with an appropriate type of adjective.

A. DIRECTIONS: In the following excerpts from "Preludes" by T. S. Eliot and "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, underline all the adjectives. There are 36 in all.

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-

Only this, and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

B. Fill in the blank with each type of adjective as directed

1. (possessive) __________ car is totally awesome.
2. (article) __________ report was 20 pages long.
3. (number) There were __________ animals at the zoo.
4. (size) I just saw a __________ storm.
5. (opinion) That is a __________ picture.
6. (demonstrative) I can't believe you bought __________.
7. (interrogative) __________ story did you like best?
8. (shape) It was purple and __________.
9. (age) This is a __________ book.
10. (origin) Your accent must be __________.

ANSWERS:

A.

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamberdoor-

Only this, and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

B. Answers will vary.