ADJECTIVES.

Exercise 1.

Instructions: Choose the correct answers for the questions below.

Sentences:

1. On another side stood an old piano, a tinkling, rattling, merrymaking old piano, played by a young lady with a melancholy smile.
2. In the dark valley that ran down to a little river, Father Wolf heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger.
3. A small girl, with twinkling eyes and a merry face, got up and made her way to the front.
4. Only loving fingers could have taken those tiny, even stitches.
5. Charles carried water for the circus men, while I, scornful and lazy but envious, sat on the fence and watched him.
6. Mammy Tittleback is a splendid, great tortoise-shell cat.
7. I found myself sinking into some horrible, soft, slimy, sticky substance.
8. Few ships come to Rivermouth now.
9. Caesar has one of the finest, deepest-toned voices I ever heard.
10. You can speak and smile cheerfully while you are enjoying every comfort of a snug, warm fireside, but you should not expect us, hungry, wet, and cold, to be in the same cheerful mood.
11. Suddenly the church clock tolled a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy "one."
12. The next best thing to cold potato and cream is cold roast chicken, and occasionally I found a good fat drumstick or a curling neck from whose corrugated bones I nibbled savory morsels.