Adjectives and adverbs

Exercise 2: Underline the adjectives and circle the adverbs.

1. Barbora was just a r egular horse.
2. He had big hooves, and he could run quickly, but he was not magical.
3. One day, Toby went to the big red barn to get some new horseshoes.
4. Toby cautiously entered the creepy barn and looked around carefully.
5. He was startled by an old horse-wizard with a long beard, a tall hat, and a sparkly cloak.
6. Toby calmly explained that he was looking for some new shoes because his old
shoes were worn out.

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7. The horse-wizard waved his hooves around mysteriously and offered Toby two
gold horseshoes.
8. Toby accepted the bright gold horseshoes and turned to shake the mysterious hoof of
the horse-wizard.
9. The dark horse-wizard had quite amazingly vanished into thin air and Toby was
deeply impressed.
10. Toby figured that he should put on the shiny new horseshoes to see how well they fit.
11. He was relieved that the horseshoes fit so snuggly and comfortably on his big hooves.
12. His legs felt powerful and nimble, and he couldn’t believe how fast he could move.
13. As he was running through the lush meadow, Toby took flight and soared through
the blue sky.
14. He was deftly flying through the cool air across a lonely canyon, and he was good at it
too.
15. As he travelled the empty sky, beautiful rainbows and neon hearts streamed from the
magic shoes.
16. Toby suddenly bumped into an evil unicorn; the skies went black and Toby was
very scared.
17. The evil unicorn shot a grey beam of sad faces at Toby, and Toby barely dodged them
by rolling left.
18. Toby was confused and worried, but he knew that the unicorn was terribly evil and
must be stopped.
19. He thought of the good things in the world, like cuddly puppies, first dances, and happy
butterflies.
20. Toby lovingly shot a beam of pure goodness from his heart, hitting the unicorn in
his wicked face.