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Modifiers Practice Quiz
Adjectives
Underline all adjectives and identify the words that they modify.
1. The smelly dog took a long bath so he smelled good.
2. The extremely yellow rubber duck floated in the huge bubble bath.
3. Morgan dropped the black pen.
4. Jack is considered smart even though he doesn't do his long homework.
5. The first play rehearsal for the show is next Wednesday.
6. The director’s description of the scene may not be infallible.
7. A large autographed photograph of this actor is in our local theater.
8. He likes his Mexican food served in a hot and steamy dish.
9. The blue purse is totally adorable and stylish.
10. Herbert, Edie’s headband, went to the super-sized mall after playing softball.
11. Jason shoved Shannya’s desk into the hard white wall.
12. Marco watched the soccer game at the big stadium.
Adverbs
Underline all adverbs and identify the words that they modify.
13. The girl wrote sloppily while slowly walking down the road.
14. The woman anxiously ran toward the juicy burger.
15. Eve decided quickly decided that she shipped Theo and Shailene.
16. Morgan slowly walked to her excruciatingly wonderful Spanish class.
17. Jason and his BFF Michael were jokingly watching the interesting movie.
18. Jason went to Rebecca’s house and mockingly played video games with her and Nick.
19. I looked very hard for really cheap headphones.
20. I searched almost steadily for a few hours.
21. She almost ran into the well-painted pole for running so fast.
22. The puppy frantically clawed the beautifully painted door.
23. Peter quickly turned off his iPad when the observant teacher briskly walked past.
24. Best of friends, Piero and Rebecca joyfully strolled around the rippling duck pond.
Comparing with Adjectives and Adverbs
Fill in the blank with the correct degree of the modifier in parentheses.
25. The movie was ________ than the last one. (long)
26. They ran ___________ of all the others. (far)
27. Nick is __________ in sports than Steven. (fast)
28. After using the machine for a year, they could develop the programs ___________. (easily)
29. Builders of the past had ___________ technology than we have today. (little)
30. Therefore the ___________ material of all was water. (popular)
31. He wrote the ___________ articles in the gossip department. (long)
32. He is ___________ at baseball, like his friend Randy. (good)
33. He went ___________ into the book than his classmate. (far)
34. A wooden bike without pedals came ___________ of all. (early)
35. Pedals were added about twenty years ___________. (late)
36. Edison is ___________ than Tammy, but Hannah is the ___________ of all. (smart)
37. Kenneth completed the lab ___________ than Jason. (accurately)
TKAMB Vocabulary
Circle the number of the sentence that best uses the vocabulary word.
38. Iota
a. There was an iota of cake left when he left the room.
b. What is your iota?
c. That is a large iota of stuff.
39. Caliber
a. What is the caliber of that gun?
b. Soldiers live up to a high caliber.
c. You need more caliber.
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word.
40. Mr. Raymond ________ gave Dill some soda to calm his nerves. (Amiably or ominous)
41. Tom's ___________ face after loosing the trial converted Atticus. (Iota or impassive)
Define the underlined vocabulary word.
42. Scout said she had an ominous feeling when she saw a scary dark shadow slowly coming near her
in the dark.
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43. Mr. Ewell was very acrimonious in court by angrily being sassy to the judge.
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44. An irascible Mr. Ewell threatened Atticus and then he went after Scout and Jem.
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45. Scout showed temerity when she talked to Mr. Cunningham in front of jail.
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Choose the sentence that uses the word best.
46. Recluse
a. Kenneth was a recluse because he never left his room.
b. Since Jamal was so social, he was a recluse.
c. Jane had been acting reclusefully lately.
47. Irascible
a. Shaniqua was such a happy and irascible gal.
b. He was so irascible that when someone said, “Hi,” he beat them up.
c. Stop being so irascible and clean the dishes!