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Identifying Adjectives
At the Beach...

Reading Level 3

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 her bag for the beach.	

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

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

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

3. 	It is dangerous to leave glass in the sand because people could step on it and cut their feet.	

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

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

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

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

a)	beach	b)	marvelous	
c)	Today	d)	mentioned	

6. 	Deja felt the warm sand between her toes as she walked along the beach with her mother and her dog Coco.	

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

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

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

8. 	The waves crashed rhythmically against the rocky shoreline.	

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

9. 	Kiara reposed 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 fatigued from the heat to chase after it.	

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

11. 	Kiara enjoyed the smell of suntan oil but loathed how greasy it felt on her skin.	

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

12. 	Jerome stepped on a jagged rock while running with his kite and injured his foot.	

a)	injured	b)	jagged	
c)	stepped	d)	rock	

13. 	The seagulls squawked and pecked at the stale breadcrumbs scattered along the shore.	

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

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

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

15. 	Jerome fretted that little fish would chomp on his toes if he waded in the water.	

a)	fretted	b)	chomp	
c)	little	d)	water	

16. 	Don cautiously 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 in amusement as they buried their father up to his neck in the wet sand.	

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

18. 	As Jerome was running along the shoreline and chasing after his kite, he almost tripped over a shallow hole.	

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

19. 	Don built an exquisite sandcastle using nothing but plastic bottles.	

a)	using	b)	exquisite	
c)	bottles	d)	sandcastle	

20. 	Deja wanted to swim in the water but feared that doing so would endanger her perfect hair.	

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

21. 	Deja was unable to identify what her dog Coco was chewing but it looked really gross.	

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

22. 	Unfortunately, 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 congregated around a rotted post.	

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

24. 	There was a stone statue of a general mounted on a rearing 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 that her father had made.	

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29. 	When Tammy removed her sunglasses, she noticed that she had pale circles around her eyes.	

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

30. 	Deja reflected on the long day that she had spent at the beach and realized that she wanted to go home.	

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