Exercise 2 Identifying Adjectives and the Words They
Modify Identify each adjective in the following sentences.
Then, identify the word each adjective modifies and the ques-
tion that it answers (see the chart on page 380).
1. Small work boats were sailed extensively for pleasure in
early colonial times.
2. The first pleasure schooner was built in 1816.
3. It was built specifically as a large, luxurious yacht.
4. American yacht clubs started around the 1840's.
5. Six members of the New York Yacht Club financed
America's first racing yacht.