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Adjectives: Quiz 1

A quiz to test your understanding of adjective characteristics

This is a quiz to test your understanding of adjectives and how they are used. Make sure you have understood the previous pages concerning characteristics, roles, attributive and predicative adjectives, descriptors, classifiers and postposed adjectives before you start. Copy only words; no extra spaces or punctuation.


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We know that musical tastes begin to crystallize as early as age 13 or 14. (McAndrew 2019) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective 'musical' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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Maybe they had an impulse to imitate something beautiful, like bird sounds. (Dallman 2022) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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Until now, trawling through the data has been painstaking and at times tedious. (Elagali et al. 2022) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective, 'painstaking' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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Giant stars are between ten and a few thousand times more luminous than the sun. (Jeeson-Daniel 2013) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective, 'giant' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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Giant stars are between ten and a few thousand times more luminous than the sun. (Jeeson-Daniel 2013) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective, 'luminous' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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Protein has a higher thermic effect because it’s harder for the body to break down. (Tolar-Peterson 2021) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective, 'thermic' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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Protein has a higher thermic effect because it’s harder for the body to break down. (Tolar-Peterson 2021) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective, 'higher' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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Protein has a higher thermic effect because it’s harder for the body to break down. (Tolar-Peterson 2021) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective, 'harder' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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The internet makes locating information easier than at any other point in human history. (Behles 2021) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective, 'easier' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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The internet makes locating information easier than at any other point in human history. (Behles 2021) (Copy the characteristics which apply to the adjective, 'human' in this sentence: attributive - predicative - descriptor - classifier - postposed - comparative )
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