7.33: Try It- Adjectives and Adverbs
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Identify
Read the paragraphs below. Identify any adjectives and adverbs. Record them in the text frame below:
Colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and myself have described the first Scottish crocodile fossil! It’s from the Isle of Skye, from a time known as the Middle Jurassic, and it dates back about 160 million years. Based on a partial bit of a jawbone, it’s not going to be the most spectacular fossil we’ve ever found, but it tells a pretty neat story.
Based on the identifiable features of the jawbone, we were able to identify the specimen as belonging to Theriosuchus. This genus has a quite complicated history, and currently the five species that are assigned to it span 100 million years! That’s pretty long lived for a single genus.
Theriosuchus belongs to a group known as Atoposauridae. Atoposaurids are a pretty cool group of crocodile ancestors, often characterized by a small, dwarfed body size; multiple tooth types; and a costal or an inland habitation. They also show an unusual combination of “primitive” characteristics and features that we associate with more “advanced” crocs.
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[reveal-answer q=”786835″]Click to Show Adjectives[/reveal-answer]
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Your list of adjectives should look something like this:
first Scottish crocodile; Middle; 160 million; partial; most spectacular; neat; identifiable; complicated; five; 100 million; long lived; single; cool; crocodile; small, dwarfed body; multiple tooth; costal; inland; unusual; primitive; more “advanced”
Here’s the paragraph with the adjectives bolded:
Colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and myself have described the first Scottish crocodile fossil! It’s from the Isle of Skye, from a time known as the Middle Jurassic, and it dates back about 160 million years. Based on a partial bit of a jawbone, it’s not going to be the mostspectacular fossil we’ve ever found, but it tells a pretty neat story.
Based on the identifiable features of the jawbone, we were able to identify the specimen as belonging to Theriosuchus. This genus has a quite complicated history, and currently the five species that are assigned to it span 100 million years! That’s pretty long lived for a single genus.
Theriosuchus belongs to a group known as Atoposauridae. Atoposaurids are a pretty cool group of crocodile ancestors, often characterized by a small, dwarfedbody size; multipletooth types; and a costal or an inland habitation. They also show an unusual combination of “primitive” characteristics and features that we associate with more “advanced” crocs.
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[reveal-answer q=”786838″]Click to Show Adverbs[/reveal-answer]
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Your list of adverbs should look something like this:
pretty; quite; currently; pretty; pretty; often; also
Here’s the paragraph with the adverbs bolded:
Colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and myself have described the first Scottish crocodile fossil! It’s from the Isle of Skye, from a time known as the Middle Jurassic, and it dates back about 160 million years. Based on a partial bit of a jawbone, it’s not going to be the most spectacular fossil we’ve ever found, but it tells a pretty neat story.
Based on the identifiable features of the jawbone, we were able to identify the specimen as belonging to Theriosuchus. This genus has a quite complicated history, and currently the five species that are assigned to it span 100 million years! That’s pretty long lived for a single genus.
Theriosuchus belongs to a group known as Atoposauridae. Atoposaurids are a pretty cool group of crocodile ancestors, often characterized by a small, dwarfed body size; multiple tooth types; and a costal or an inland habitation. They also show an unusual combination of “primitive” characteristics and features that we associate with more “advanced” crocs.
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Look back at the adjectives and adverbs you’ve just identified. Are any of them comparatives, superlatives, or intensifiers? Record your answers in the text frame below:
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[reveal-answer q=”786834″]Click to Show Comparatives, Superlatives, and Intensifiers[/reveal-answer]
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There is one comparative (more), one superlative (most), and four intensifiers (pretty; quite; pretty; pretty).
Colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and I have described the first Scottish crocodile fossil! It’s from the Isle of Skye, from a time known as the Middle Jurassic, and it dates back about 160 million years. Based on a partial bit of a jawbone, it’s not going to be the most spectacular fossil we’ve ever found, but it tells a pretty neat story.
Based on the identifiable features of the jawbone, we were able to identify the specimen as belonging to Theriosuchus. This genus has a quite complicated history, and currently the five species that are assigned to it span 100 million years! That’s pretty long lived for a single genus.
Theriosuchus belongs to a group known as Atoposauridae. Atoposaurids are a pretty cool group of crocodile ancestors, often characterized by a small, dwarfed body size; multiple tooth types; and costal or inland habitation. They also show an unusual combination of “primitive” characteristics and features that we associate with more “advanced” crocs.
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- Try It: Adjectives and Adverbs. Provided by: Lumen Learning. License: CC BY: Attribution
- Nessie dwarfed by new Scottish crocodile. Authored by: Jon Tennant. Provided by: European Geosciences Union . Located at: http://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/09/11/nessie-dwarfed-by-new-scottish-crocodile/. Project: Green Tea and Velociraptors. License: CC BY: Attribution