Adjectives or Adverbs

2nd Grade ELAGrammar and Language4 pages

About this worksheet

Adjective or adverb is the one decision behind all ten items here. 2nd grade students sort slow, softly, brave, bravely, soft and slowly into two columns. Next they choose loud or loudly and slow or slowly in sentences about a singing bird and a turtle, then check whether the word describes a noun or a verb. Part 3 has three more choices, such as carefully for an artist, and Part 4 asks for sentences with quick and quickly. It matches Common Core L.2.1e, and the answer key includes sample sentences.

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Curriculum objectives covered

L.2.1e

โ€œUse adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.โ€

Every item asks students to choose between an adjective and an adverb, and Part 2 makes them name whether a noun or a verb is described.

What's inside this worksheet

Sort the Words

Six words to split between Adjectives (Describe Nouns) and Adverbs (Describe Verbs).

Choose and Tell

Four sentences, two about loud music and a bird, two about a turtle. Students fill the blank and check Describes a Noun or Describes a Verb.

Pick the Best Word

Three choices: careful or carefully, happy or happily, and fierce or fiercely for a dog barking at the mail carrier.

Write Your Own

One sentence with the adjective quick and one with the adverb quickly.

Answer key

Answers for questions 1 to 8 and sample sentences such as "The quick fox jumped over the log."

How teachers use it

Act it out

Walk slowly across the room and ask for the word that tells how you walked. Then point to the turtle picture and ask what kind of animal it is. That is the choice in questions 4 and 5.

Circle the -ly

Every adverb on the sheet ends in -ly. Ask students to spot the ending first, then check it against the word it describes.

Stretch Part 4

Early finishers write a matching pair with fierce and fiercely from question 8.

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