Paired adjectives spotted at museum

In my blog on Monday, I noted that occasionally we read about WriteShop users who skip the paired adjective instruction, complaining that it teaches stilted and unnatural writing. I find it rather amusing, because once you start looking for them, you discover paired adjective sentence starters popping up everywhere, from cookbooks and novels to signs and newspaper articles.

When they’re used in moderation, I love paired adjectives! They’re just one way a student can infuse some life into a piece of writing by mixing up and varying sentence structure.

Paired Adjectives in the Real World

Anyway, as I promised on Monday, I thought it might be fun to start posting some of my paired adjective sightings now and then, starting with an exhibit plaque I photographed a couple of years ago at the San Diego Museum of Natural History.

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Everyone who identifies the paired adjectives in the museum plaque and posts the right answer in the comments by Monday (3/17/08) at midnight PDT will win a free World of People StoryBuilders eBook! That’s a $7.95 value! (I’ll hold all comments in moderation until the deadline to give everyone a chance.) EVERY person who answers correctly will win, so tell your friends to join the fun!

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19 Comments

Posted March 13, 2008
Heidi
Hi, Kim! I came over from JoJo’s blog.
I’m guessing “secretive and successful” but I don’t want to win~ I already have the World of People Story Builders as I reviewed it for The Schoolhouse Store (I’m the E-Book Reviews Specialist).
Great fun, though~ so I just had to pop over and play!
Posted March 15, 2008
Janna Ethridge
large padded for paired adjectives
Posted March 15, 2008
Susan Puryear
The paired adjective in the museum article is “secretive and successful”.
We enjoy using Write Shop with my 7th grader and would love to have something like it for my 3rd grader. Thanks for this program
Posted March 15, 2008
Susan Puryear
Thanks for the program Write Shop.
Posted March 15, 2008
Irene Jackson
large, padded
secretive and successful
Desert Bighorn
Posted March 15, 2008
Penny M. Smelcer
The paired adjectives in the museum plaque are secretive and successful, and they modify mountain lions.
Posted March 15, 2008
Ann
Paired adjectives in the museum article: secretive and successful
Posted March 15, 2008
Beth Hollmann
Paired adjectives: “Secretive and successful,” beginning the first sentence in the second paragraph.
Posted March 15, 2008
Beth Hollmann
“Secretive and successful,” beginning second paragraph.
Sorry if I entered this twice. I couldn’t tell if it submitted my first attempt or not.
Posted March 15, 2008
Susan Morin
The paired adjectives: Secretive and successful
Posted March 16, 2008
Laura Warren
Secretive and successful – paired adjectives…..
Thanks!
Laura Warren
Posted March 16, 2008
Donna
Hope this is the place I am supposed to post the adjectives …. secretive and successful
Posted March 16, 2008
Jennifer Rodeniser
“Secretive and successful” are the paired adjectives.
Posted March 16, 2008
Amy
The paired adjective is “Secretive and successful”
Posted March 16, 2008
Jonathan Royal
Hi,
I think the paired adjectives are “forward-facing” eyes.
Thanks!
Jonathan
Posted March 17, 2008
Andrew
The pair adjectives are: large padded paws, forward facing eyes, big cat’s habitat, various smaller mammals, endangered Desert Bighorn Sheep.
Thank you = Andrew
Posted March 17, 2008
Angela Hite
Secretive and successful…
Posted March 17, 2008
Linda Altman
The paired adjectives in the museum plaque are large padded
This is in the first sentence:
Observe this cat’s LARGE PADDED paws, …
Posted March 17, 2008
Rebecca Hirsch
“Secretive and successful…”