Draw an arrow from the adjective to the word or words it modifies. Treat hyphenated compound words like spine-tingling as one word.
EXAMPLE Scary stogies can make the imagination run wild.
On hot summer nights, Julio and the other boss sleep out in the yard. They put up a tent in a
dark corner, where the trees and bushes are thick. That way the boys can easily imagine they are in
wild, uninhabited country
One evening Mike suggested that they tell ghost stories or tales of bear hunts. After a
particularly spine-tingling story, Mike couldn't sleep; he was too nervous.
About midnight he saw something move in the shadows. "Yeowt" he cried out. "There is a big
bear! It is really huge!"
In the sudden confusion, the small tent collapsed on top of the boys cach one seemed eager to
go in a different direction Anxious parents ran out of the nearby house. They found a coal black
dog. Like a bear, this animal was very curious. It was sniffing at the tangle of arms, legs, and bodies
under the tent.