Answer:
The second paragraph of "The Red Badge of Courage"
Selection of the Descriptive Adjectives:
certain tall
reliable
truthful
trustworthy
division
important
Explanation:
a) Descriptive adjectives express the size, color, or shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a place. As adjectives, they add more information to a noun by describing or modifying it.
b) Data from the Second Paragraph of "The Red Badge of Courage:"
"Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a shirt. He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike. He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the orderlies at division headquarters. He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold."
c) The adjectives are underlined in bold letters with the nouns or adjectives that they describe or modify.
