Use words that function as

adjectives and adverbs

Identify the words that have similar meaning as the
underlined words.
1.)The grand mountains are beautiful.
A. attractive C. elegant
B. marvelous D. radiant
2.) How graceful are her stately plains!
A. willowy C. delicate
B. obedient D. refined
3.) How pliant are her rustling bamboos green!
A. wavering C. yielding
B. obedient D. loosening
4.) How pretty are her white sampaguitas.
A. lovely C. ample
B. cheerful D. considerable
5.) How sweet and modest are her daughters who
harvest the golden grain!
A. darling C. harmonious
B. pure D. fragrant
 Identify the antonym of each of the underlined
words.
1.) How peaceful the valleys between her sparkling
sun and cooling rains.
A. violent C. noisy
B. disturbed D. troubled
2.) How graceful are her towering emerald trees!
A. brief C. tiny
B. little D. low
3.) How pretty are her fragrant orchids so rare.
A. frequent C. periodic
B. repeated D. common
4.) How sweet and modest her daughters are!
A. unchaste C. grand
B. boastful D. excessive
5.) How I love this dear Philippines, home on this troubled
earth.
A. peaceful C. dignified
B. restful D. gracious
Synonyms are words that are similar in
meaning.

Antonyms are words that are opposite in

meaning.
Read and analyze:

1. He went to the store.

2. After dinner, I will go out.
3. When it rains, it pours.
4. Around the corner is my house.
5. At 10 tonight, we will see fireworks.
6. Through the window, I see my dog.
7. My friend lives across the street.
8. Will you come to the party?
9. According to my mother, it is going to rain.
10. Caye Caulker is known throughout the world.
Which of the underlined words are used
as an adjective? What does it modify?

Which of the underlined words are used

as an adverb? What does it modify?

How will you differentiate adjective from

an adverb?
Generalization

Adjectives and adverbs are modifiers. They make the

meaning of the words in the sentence clearer and more
specific.

Adjectives modify nouns while adverbs modify verbs,

adjectives and another adverb.

Some words can function as an adjective and an

adverb.
*A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and
ends with a noun or pronoun.
Other words may be in between the preposition and the
noun or pronoun, which is also known as the object of
the preposition.
Some prepositional phrases are used as adjectives. They
describe nouns.
Other prepositional phrases are used as adverbs. They
describe a verb and answer the questions how, why, or
when.
 TIME PLACE (MANNER FREQUENCY
(when) ( where) ( how) (how often)
Now never In up /Too fast Not once

Late today Out over Well hard Often twice

Soon tonight Down here Very quite Daily never

Next long ago There around Sadly easily Always seldom

Then next year Inside outside Calmly neatly Weekly usually

Carefully happily Regularly
Later sometime Between at a place Nicely partly Sometimes
Quickly speedily Everyday
Early yesterday Somewhere Slowly almost Every year
everywhere Slightly greatly Frequently
Application
Encircle the appropriate word for the following sentences.

The wind blew very ( hard, hardly).

Trees could (hard, hardly)stand still.
She is (sure, surely) about the weather station.
She says the weather today will (sure, surely) be fine.
The blue silk gown is (simple, simply) but elegant.
It is (simple, simply) adorable to look at.
Motorists should be extra (careful, carefully).
It is very difficult to drive (careful, carefully) during stormy weather.
Underlinethe prepositional phrase in each sentence. Circle
the preposition.
1) The strange man parked his car next to the tall trees.
2) The confused foreign exchange student walked through
the school halls.
3) My cousin Jesse wore a bandage on his nose to cover the
wound.
4) Our crazy dog escaped and wandered all around the
neighborhood.
5) Your little brother had surgery and must stay in the
hospital.
Write ADJ if the underlined word is used as an adjective
and ADV if used as an adverb.

1. He runs fast during the league.

2. The fast dog wins the race.
3. I find it hard to accept his defeat.
4. The miners found hard rocks from that area.
5. She recites the poem well.
Write the prepositional phrases in the poem below and the
poem on the other side of the sheet.

A Fire-Truck

Right down the shocked street with a siren-blast

That sends all else skittering to the curb,
Redness, brass, ladders and hats hurl past,
Blurring to sheer verb,
Shift at the corner into uproarious gear
And make it around the turn in a squall
of traction, The headlong bell maintaining sure and clear,
Thought is degraded action!

Beautiful, heavy, unweary, loud, obvious thing!

I stand here purged of nuance, my mind a blank.
All I was brooding upon has taken wing,
And I have you to thank.
As you howl beyond hearing I carry you into my mind,
Ladders and brass and all, there to admire
Your phoenix-red simplicity, enshrined
In that not extinguished fire.

Richard Wilbur