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Improving Sentences with Adjectives and Adverbs

Copy these sentences into your book, adding an appropriate adverb and
adjective for each. Make sure your new sentences still make sense. You
might want to underline the verbs and nouns first to help you.

1) The cat walked down the street.

2) Alex waited by the streetlamp.

3) The postman trapped his finger in the letterbox.

4) The river flowed through the town.

5) The lady cried in the cemetery.

6) He climbed the staircase.

Adjectives
ginger empty broken dangerous silly
cold beautiful old widowed dark
lonely grey dusty winding small

Adverbs
quickly patiently angrily painfully
unfortunately slowly quietly miserably
sluggishly gently
Improving Sentences with Adjectives and Adverbs

Copy these sentences into your book, adding an appropriate adverb and
adjective for each. Make sure your new sentences still make sense. You
might want to underline the verbs and nouns first to help you.

1) The cat walked down the street.

2) Alex waited by the streetlamp.

3) The postman trapped his finger in the letterbox.

4) The river flowed through the town.

5) The lady cried in the cemetery.

6) He climbed the staircase.

7) They danced at the disco.

8) Feared, the gangster strolled down the street.

9) Although he walked, he reached the town by


morning.

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