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A Focus on Predicate Adjectives
Based on 
The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
Illustration by N. C. Wyeth
Directions: Underline subjects once, verbs twice. [Note that some of the sentences have more than one S/V pattern.]

1. Further words were unnecessary.

2. The route was now painful.

3. Our decision should be speedy.

4. The camp will not be much longer tenable.

5. The path soon became more uneven.

6. Ha! sir, you are young, and you're nimble!

7. They are deliberate and wise.

8. Hawkeye was not mistaken.

9. The impressions of footsteps were numerous.

10. Altogether, the appearance of the individual was forlorn and miserable.