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Adjectives
Draw a line under each adjective in the following sentences.
1 European powers expanded their influenceſ the seventeenth century.
2 French explorers started North American colonies in Quebec
3. English colonies started for religious freedom and business opportunities.
4. The Virginia colony was a business colony.
5. Large numbers of immigrants enabled the various colonies to prosper in the eighteenth century.
6. By the nineteenth century, Europe had a great number of unhappy people,
7. The common people's concerns were often ignored.
8. Therefore, many ordinary folk decided to emigrate.
9. They left their old homes and took a chance on America,
10. The first great immigration into the new nation came with the French Revolution
11. The fierce Revolution caused many dramatic changes in France,
12. Every few years the weak government would be overthrown.
13. French immigrants to America included former royalists and radicals
14. Very few people liked the constant twists and turns of the bitter struggle
15. After the dictator Napoleon was defeated, however, emigration from France lessened.