Harbours to Highlands A Geography Manual
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"How Coal is Formed"
Adjectives

Adjectives are words used to describe people, places, or things.
Example: He picked up the shiny, black coal.

Underline the adjectives in each sentence.

1. It's difficult to walk around this swampy, prehistoric forest among the strange trees, dense thickets, and large ferns.
2. They began to decay and new plants grew.
3. Layers upon layer built up over old roots.
4. A thick, brown, spongy layer of material called peat formed.
5. Centuries passed before the spongy peat became hard, black coal.
6. I can see that mining is hard work.
7. The retired miner tells us about the coal in Nova Scotia.
8. He blinds us with his little light.
9. It is a soft, sooty, black coal.
10. The coal gives good heat.
11. Anthracite is shiny, black coal.
12. It has a clean, low flame.
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