Adjectives

Adjectives

Compose your own sentences to bring out the meaning of these adjectives.

One of the lions at Harlaxton Manor.

© Richard Croft, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Adjectives

© Richard Croft, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Source

One of the lions at Harlaxton Manor.

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One of the lion sculptures at Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire, a few miles southwest of Grantham. Now a college of the University of Evansville, Indiana, USA, it was saved from demolition by Violet van der Elst (née Dodge), a working-class girl who invented the first brushless shaving cream and became extremely wealthy. However, she spent all but £16,000 of her fortune on campaigning against the death penalty, abolished a year before her death in 1966.

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Introduction

For each word below, compose sentences to show that it may be used as an adjective. Adjectives provide extra information about a noun, e.g. a black cat, a round table, the early bird etc..

The words in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 1565 common words.

1 Improvident. 2 Illegal. 3 Sprawling. 4 Orchestral. 5 Still. 6 Afloat. 7 Specific. 8 Human. 9 Reticent.

Variations: 1.show whether your adjective can also be used as e.g. a noun, verb or adverb. 2.show whether your adjective can be used in comparisons (e.g. good/better/best). 3.show whether your adjective can be used in attributive position (e.g. a dangerous corner) and also in predicate position (this corner is dangerous).

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