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.