CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH 9: LANGUAGE WORKSHEET 1.

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Language worksheet 1.2

In this worksheet, you will focus on adjectives and their positions in sentences.
Adjectives add details and qualities to nouns. They can be used in three positions in sentences:
• Immediately before a noun: The hungry children.
• After a noun phrase: The children, hungry for lunch, began to fight.
• After verbs and referring to the subject: The children became hungry.
Adjectives can also take the present participle – for example, a fascinating person, a stimulating
book, the amazing stunt.
Read the following text, then answer the questions.

The bright day became a dull evening as the aged, rusty sun dropped towards the
distant horizon. As the sun fell lower, the ocean became reddish. The water was still,
the most motionless sea I’d ever seen. Tiny waves rippled to the curving shore. I
walked along the stony cliff-edge and sat and watched the gliding seagulls searching
for scraps left behind by the thoughtless visitors, both stupid and selfish. I listened to
the hard cry of the gulls as they fought for the abandoned rubbish. The quiet beauty of
the sea and sky complimented my serious mood. I felt lonely, down and unforgiving
because of the usual visitors – the pointless, foolish tourists, who had done so much
damage to the beach. I had little confidence they would learn.

1 Underline all the adjectives in the text.

List the adjectives in front of nouns.

List the adjectives after noun phrases.

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List the adjectives that come after verbs and refer to the subject.

List the adjectives with present participles.

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