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Identifying Adjectives
At the Beach...

Reading Level 2

Directions: Read each of the following sentences. Identify the word that is used as an adjective. Circle your response.

1. 	Deja took one look at the cloudless sky and ran back into her house to pack a bag for the beach.	

a)	Deja	b)	house	
c)	cloudless	d)	beach	

2. 	Tammy walked along the shore and gathered pretty shells.	

a)	Tammy	b)	pretty	
c)	shore	d)	walked	

3. 	It is dangerous to leave glass in the sand because someone could step on it.	

a)	dangerous	b)	sand	
c)	glass	d)	leave	

4. 	Don and Dan were looking for flat rocks to skip across the water.	

a)	skip	b)	looking	
c)	rocks	d)	flat	

5. 	"Today is a splendid day to go to the beach," remarked Deja's mom.	

a)	beach	b)	splendid	
c)	Today	d)	remarked	

6. 	Deja felt the warm sand between her toes as she walked along the beach.	

a)	warm	b)	felt	
c)	sand	d)	Deja	

7. 	Jerome sprinted along the shoreline while trying to get his purple kite into the air.	

a)	air	b)	shore	
c)	along	d)	purple	

8. 	The waves crashed clashingly against the rocky shore.	

a)	waves	b)	crashed	
c)	rocky	d)	against	

9. 	Kiara sat on a towel under the sun's bright rays and tanned her skin.	

a)	tanned	b)	skin	
c)	under	d)	bright	

10. 	Deja threw the ball past her dog Coco, but Coco was too tired from the heat to chase after it.	

a)	tired	b)	threw	
c)	chase	d)	it	

11. 	Kiara loved the smell of suntan oil but she hated how greasy it felt.	

a)	smell	b)	greasy	
c)	felt	d)	hated	

12. 	Jerome stepped on a sharp rock while running with his kite and hurt his foot.	

a)	hurt	b)	sharp	
c)	stepped	d)	rock	

13. 	The seagulls squawked and pecked at the stale breadcrumbs.	

a)	stale	b)	breadcrumbs	
c)	squawked	d)	seagulls	

14. 	Tammy giggled at Tommy as he tried to wipe the sand off his sticky skin.	

a)	giggled	b)	sand	
c)	skin	d)	sticky	

15. 	Jerome worried that little fish would bite his toes if he waded in the water.	

a)	worried	b)	bite	
c)	little	d)	water	

16. 	Don slowly waded into the water until the current got too cold for him.	

a)	water	b)	waded	
c)	cold	d)	him	

17. 	Kiara and Don laughed and played as they buried their dad up to his neck in the wet sand.	

a)	wet	b)	dad	
c)	buried	d)	neck	

18. 	As Jerome was running along the shoreline and chasing his kite, he almost fell in a shallow hole.	

a)	shoreline	b)	chasing	
c)	kite	d)	shallow	

19. 	Don built a castle out of sand using nothing but old plastic bottles.	

a)	sand	b)	old	
c)	bottles	d)	castle	

20. 	Deja wanted to swim but feared that the water might ruin her perfect hair.	

a)	water	b)	ruin	
c)	perfect	d)	feared	

21. 	Deja couldn't recognize what her dog Coco was chewing but it looked really gross.	

a)	Coco	b)	recognize	
c)	what	d)	gross	

22. 	Deja's dog Coco dropped an unwanted present in the sand for Deja.	

a)	present	b)	unwanted	
c)	Deja's	d)	dropped	

23. 	Several seagulls perched on a rotted post.	

a)	rotted	b)	seagulls	
c)	perched	d)	post	

24. 	There was a stone statue of a general riding a horse at the center of the beach.	

a)	center	b)	statue	
c)	horse	d)	stone	

25. 	Kiara puckered her lips as she sipped the sour lemonade.	

a)	lemonade	b)	lips	
c)	sour	d)	puckered	

26. 	Jerome's towel was soaked after he dropped it in the water.	

a)	water	b)	soaked	
c)	towel	d)	it	

27. 	Kiara treasured the salty smell of the ocean air.	

a)	treasured	b)	smell	
c)	air	d)	salty	

28. 	Jerome blew into the conch and made a loud noise that scared the seagulls.	

a)	noise	b)	blew	
c)	loud	d)	made	

29. 	Tammy had pale circles around her eyes where her sunglasses had been.	

a)	pale	b)	circles	
c)	sunglasses	d)	had	

30. 	Deja wanted to go home after spending a long day at the beach.	

a)	home	b)	wanted	
c)	day	d)	long