Lesson 9: Reading Nonfiction Articles

Self-Check Answers

Self-Check: Adjectives

1. Amy played on the seventh-grade soccer team.
2. Steve played first cornet in the school jazz band.
3. On Friday night, his parents said he could pitch his pup tent in the nearby woods for the entire weekend.
4. That night, they ran an extension cord from the nearby house.
5. Shelly and her best friends decided to sleep in the cozy camper tent instead of a drafty pup tent.

6. 1. gooder
   2. better
7. 1. most baddest
   2. worst
8. 1. most least
   2. least
9. 1. shyest
   2. shiest
10. 1. grouchyer
    2. grouchier
11. 1. exhaustingest
    2. most exhausting
12. 1. more wild
    2. wilder
13. 1. funnyest
    2. funniest
14. 1. a unfortunate
    2. an unfortunate
15. 1. best
    2. better

Self-Check: Adverbs

1. We went there today.
2. Rena practices her piano piece every day.
3. There is my folder!
4. Brilliantly, Thomas spelled the final word.
5. I could scarcely contain my excitement.
6. The bloodhound lazily stretched and yawned.
7. Come here!
8. I had a bad headache yesterday. (Note: “Bad” is not an adverb because it modifies the noun “headache.”)
9. Evan leaned forward.
10. The deer ran away quickly.