Inventor of the Very First Computer - Special adjectives and comparing - Adjectives

Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Inventor of the Very First Computer
Special adjectives and comparing
Adjectives

Many historians agree that the first computer was built in the seventeenth century. It was a mechanical adding machine. A French mathematician invented it. What was his name?

To answer the question, read each sentence below. Find the adjective. Only one adjective appears in each sentence. In the parentheses that follow each sentence, a letter is called for. Find this letter in the adjective. Then write the letter in the space above its sentence number at the bottom of the page. The first one is done for you.

1. Basic computers were built centuries ago. (fifth letter)

2. These machines could only add numbers. (fourth letter)

3. They were very simple. (fourth letter)

4. Several inventors worked on computers. (seventh letter)

5. Modern computers were developed in 1946. (fourth letter)

6. This computer was called ENIAC. (third letter)

7. ENIAC was extremely big. (first letter)

8. It weighed many tons. (second letter)

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