Show what you know. Fold a piece of paper in half horizontally twice and vertically twice to make eight equal sections. Label them with the following categories: Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Material, and Purpose. Sort the adjectives by writing each under the proper category. go to end of inline object

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-smelly
-tasty
-big
-old
-cotton
-rectangular
-turquoise
-smart
-energetic
-American
-Mandarin
-short
-Spanish
-purple
-French
-silly
-young
-metal
-wooden
-race track
-crimson
-aqua
-round
-pink
-square
-Italian
-white
-catcher's mitt
-miniature
-brown
-old-fashioned
-tall
-modern
-baking pan
-sleeping bag
-camping tent
-paper
-enormous
-creepy
-plastic

Application
Find at least three different adjectives in a text of your choice or one suggested by your teacher. Identify the category of each adjective. Is it an opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, or purpose adjective?

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

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Ivansanger rainsfordgeneral zaroffwhitneyadventurous hunter; calm and composed; considers himself a realist; new yorker; veteran of world war ia hunter; sympathetic to the plight of voiceless, defenseless animals; cautiouscossack; mute; formidable physical stature; wears a black uniform; used to whip prisoners for the great white czarcossack; aristocrat; has sharp, pointed teeth and red lips; devoid of humanity and emotion