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Adjective or Adverb Worksheet 2
At the Arctic Circle...

Reading Level 2

Directions: Choose the pair of words that best completes each sentence. Remember, adjectives modify nouns and pronouns and adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.		

1. 	Cole the Polar Bear snatched a ________ trout out of the ________ water with his giant bear paw.	

a)	slow, icy	b)	slowly, icy	
c)	slow, icily	d)	slowly, icily	

2. 	Moss grows ________ during the ________ summers in the Arctic Circle.	

a)	good, frigid	b)	well, frigid	
c)	good, frigidly	d)	well, frigidly	

3. 	Suzy the Snow Fox sniffed ________ at the ________ ground of the frozen tundra.	

a)	hungry, bare	b)	hungry, barely	
c)	hungrily, bare	d)	hungrily, barely	

4. 	Cole the Polar Bear danced ________ in the ________ starlight.	

a)	dainty, bright	b)	daintily, bright	
c)	dainty, brightly	d)	daintily, brightly	

5. 	Alex the Arctic Wolf shivered ________ in the ________ winds that cut across the Arctic.	

a)	shaky, coldly	b)	shaky, cold	
c)	shakily, coldly	d)	shakily, cold	

6. 	Cole the Polar Bear excitedly chased a ________ seal back into the ________ water	

a)	chubby, freezing	b)	chubbily, freezing	
c)	chubby, freezingly	d)	chubbily, freezingly	

7. 	When Sean the Seal saw his son swimming, he clapped ________ and ________.	

a)	loud, proud	b)	loudly, proud	
c)	loud, proudly	d)	loudly, proudly	

8. 	Cole the Polar Bear saw the Northern Lights blazing ________ across the ________ sky.	

a)	bold, shimmering	b)	bold, shimmeringly	
c)	boldly, shimmering	d)	boldly, shimmeringly	

9. 	Lenny the Lemming is ________ and ________, but at times he can be a bit of a follower.	

a)	quiet, polite	b)	quietly, polite	
c)	quiet, politely	d)	quietly, politely	

10. 	Sean the Seal swam ________ past the ________ polar bear's deadly paws.	

a)	stealthy, powerful	b)	stealthily, powerful	
c)	stealthy, powerfully	d)	stealthily, powerfully	

11. 	Tim the Trout took a hook to his ________ tail and was ________ injured while swimming from a whale.	

a)	tired, serious	b)	tiredly, serious	
c)	tired, seriously	d)	tiredly, seriously	

12. 	Sean the Seal slid ________ on the ________ snow patch.	

a)	wild, slippery	b)	wildly, slippery	
c)	wild, slipperily	d)	wildly, slipperily	

13. 	Cole the Polar Bear blended ________ with the ________ snow.	

a)	splendid, pale	b)	splendidly, pale	
c)	splendid, palely	d)	splendidly, palely	

14. 	Wally the Walrus grabbed a bone and ________ brushed his ________ tusks.	

a)	rough, crusty	b)	rough, crustily	
c)	roughly, crusty	d)	roughly, crustily	

15. 	Suzy the Snow Fox dug a hole in the ________ snow to make a ________ den for her litter of kits.	

a)	dirty, new	b)	dirtily, new	
c)	dirty, newly	d)	dirtily, newly	

16. 	Wally the Walrus ________ watched for ________ polar bears.	

a)	wary, hungry	b)	wary, hungrily	
c)	warily, hungry	d)	warily, hungrily	

17. 	Alex the Arctic Wolf ________ ate an ________ delicious ox.	

a)	angry, amazing	b)	angrily, amazing	
c)	angry, amazingly	d)	angrily, amazingly	

18. 	Sean the Seal balanced a frozen snowball ________ on his ________ nose.	

a)	brief, nosy	b)	brief, nosily	
c)	briefly, nosily	d)	briefly, nosy	

19. 	Tim the Trout swam ________ through the ________ seaweed.	

a)	sly, slimy	b)	sly, slimily	
c)	slyly, slimy	d)	slyly, slimily	

20. 	Sean the Seal is ________ and ________ playful for an animal that is hunted by polar bears.	

a)	silly, real	b)	sillily, real	
c)	silly, really	d)	sillily, really	

21. 	Suzy the Snow Fox is a ________ mother, a ________ hunter, and a friend to the scavengers.	

a)	good, vicious	b)	goodly, vicious	
c)	good, viciously	d)	goodly, viciously	

22. 	Cole the Polar Bear swam ________ in the ________ sea in search of something to eat.	

a)	swift, silent	b)	swiftly, silent	
c)	swift, silently	d)	swiftly, silently	

23. 	Sean the Seal ________ splashed the ________ walrus while he sunbathed.	

a)	gentle, happy	b)	gently, happily	
c)	gentle, happily	d)	gently, happy	

24. 	Wally the Walrus flopped his ________ body ________ on an iceberg.	

a)	fat, noisy	b)	fatly, noisy	
c)	fat, noisily	d)	fatly, noisily	

25. 	Cole the Polar Bear pawed ________ at the ________ lemming.	

a)	lazy, lame	b)	lazily, lame	
c)	lazy, lamely	d)	lazily, lamely	

26. 	Alex the Arctic Wolf ran ________ at ________ seals.	

a)	speedy, skittish	b)	speedy, skittishly	
c)	speedily, skittish	d)	speedily, skittishly	

27. 	Sean the Seal swam ________ and ________ in the salty sea.	

a)	silent, safe	b)	silently, safe	
c)	silent, safely	d)	silently, safely	

28. 	Suzy the Snow Fox was ________ to see the seals get swallowed by the ________ polar bear, because she was so hungry.	

a)	sad, savage	b)	sadly, savage	
c)	sad, savagely	d)	sadly, savagely	

29. 	Cole the Polar Bear thought that Tim the Trout tasted ________ even though the dead fish smelled ________.	

a)	good, bad	b)	well, bad	
c)	good, badly	d)	well, badly	

30. 	Wally the Walrus waddled and wobbled ________ into the ________ water.	

a)	weak, warm	b)	weakly, warm	
c)	weakly, warmly	d)	weak, warmly