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opinion (how good?) | size (how big?) | shape | age (how old?) | colour | origin (where from) | material (made of?) | purpose or type (what kind?) | noun |
nice | big | round | old | blue | French | glass | fruit | bowl |
When there are 2 colour adjectives, we use “AND”: a black and white dress but a long black dress
We say: the first two days, the next few weeks
We use adjectives after BE/GET/BECOME/SEEM:
Be careful! I’m tired and getting hungry. It’s getting dark. Your friend seems tired.
Adjectives after: SEEM, LOOK, FEEL, SOUND, TASTE, SMELL
You look tired. She sounds tired. This tea tastes a bit strange. I feel nice.
After other verbs ADVERBS are used (how?): Drive carefully! Susan plays the piano very well.
I. Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct order.
1. a beautiful table (wooden, round) __________________________________________
2. an unusual ring (gold) ___________________________________________________
3. a new pullover (nice) ___________________________________________________
4. a new pullover (green) __________________________________________________
5. an old house (beautiful) _________________________________________________
6. black gloves (leather) __________________________________________________
7. an American film (old) __________________________________________________
8. a long face (thin) ______________________________________________________
9. big clouds (black) _____________________________________________________
10. a sunny day (lovely) ___________________________________________________
11. a wide avenue (long) ___________________________________________________
12. a metal box (black/small) _______________________________________________
13. a big cat (fat/black) ____________________________________________________
14. a little village (old/lovely) _______________________________________________
15. long hair (black/beautiful) _______________________________________________
16. an old painting (interesting/French) _______________________________________
17. an enormous umbrella (red/yellow) _______________________________________
Put the adjectives into the correct place. Note: When there are 2 or more adjectives of the same type, the more general adjective goes before the more specific one.
1) I love ice-cream (strawberry, Italian, tasty) – I love tasty Italian strawberry ice cream (opinion, origin, material)
2) They have a sofa (leather, navy-blue, modern)
3) He loves his bike (new, red, expensive, mountain)
4) She has a voice (lovely, singing, pure)
5) He’s just sold that suit to a woman (beautiful, slim, tall, French, young)
6) She bought curtains (brown and orange, dining-room)
7) She bakes cakes (chocolate, delicious, birthday, round)
8) June has a puppy (tiny, brown, fluffy)
9) She was given a dress (black, spectacular, Italian, evening)
10) He bought a racquet (tennis, graphite, new)
11) He has a grandfather (French, ninety-year-old, wonderful)
12) We watched a film (boring, German, black and white)
13) She wears lipstick (pink, horrible, glossy)
14) We used to have a teacher (strict, old, biology, American)
15) It was a dress (wedding, antique, cream, stunning, lace)
16) Yesterday we went to the club (huge, sports, modern)
17) Mary has a job (sales, demanding, new)
18) The house has a kitchen (large, well-equipped, white, modern)
19) It was a pool (marble, huge, white, shining)
20) He has a bag (black, big, school)
21) I have rarely seen such a film (American, well-made, detective)
II. Write the following in another way using the first…/the next… the last …
1. the first day and the second day of the course the first two days of the course
2. next week and the week later ________________________________________
3. yesterday and the day before yesterday ________________________________
4. the first week and the second week ___________________________________
5. tomorrow and a few days after that ___________________________________
6. questions 1,2, and 3 of the examination _______________________________
7. next year and the year after ________________________________________
8. the last day of our holiday and the two days before that___________________
III. Complete each sentence with a verb (in the correct form) and an adjective from the boxes.
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1. Ann seemed upset this morning. Do you know what was wrong?
2. I can’t eat this. I’ve just tried it and it ____________________________________.
3. I wasn’t very well yesterday but I __________________________________today.
4. What beautiful flowers! They ______________________________________too.
5. You __________________________. Have you been out in the rain?
6. Jim was telling me about his new job. It _______________________quite___________________, much better
than his old job.
IV. Choose the correct word.
1. This tea tastes a bit strange/strangely.
2. I always feel _____________________________________when the sun is shining (happy/happily).
3. The children were playing ____________________________________ in the garden (happy/happily).
4. The man became ___________________________________ when the manager of the restaurant asked him to leave (violent/violently).
5. You look ________________________________________! Are you all right? (terrible/terribly)
6. There’s no point in a doing a job if you don’t do it proper/properly.
Adjectives ending in –ing and – ed:
-ING | - ED | ||
people | things | people | things |
an interesting man | an interesting film | He is interested in music | - |
a boring person | a boring film | He is bored. | - |
Note: Adjectivesending –ed have the same form as past participles. The –ed adjective tells us how a person feels: the worried patient, a classroom of bored students
Adjectivesending –ing have the same form as the present participle. The –ing tells us about the effect that smth. or someone has on our feelings: a boring teacher, a disappointing film
I. Complete the sentences for each situation. Choose the correct ending: -ED or –ING.
1. The film wasn’t as good as we had expected.
The film was disapoint___.
We were disapoint___ with the film.
2. Diana teaches young children. It’s a very hard job but she enjoys it.
She enjoys her job but it’s often exhaust____.
At the end of a day’s work she is often exhaust___.
3. It’s been raining all day. I hate this weather.
This weather is depress____.
This weather makes me depress____.
4. Clare is going to the United States next month. She has never been there before.
It will be an excit___ experience for her.
Going to new places is always excit____.
She is really excit____ about going to the United States.
II. Choose the correct word.
1. I was disappointing/disappointed with the film. I had expected it to be better.
2. Are you interesting/interested in football?
3. The football match was quite exciting/excited. I enjoyed it.
4. It’s sometimes embarrassing/embarrassed when you have to ask people for money.
5. Do you easily get embarrassing/embarrassed?
6. I had never expected her to get the job. I was really amazing/amazed when I was offered it.
7. She has really learnt very fast. She has made astonishing/astonished progress.
8. I didn’t find the situation funny. I was not amusing/amused.
9. It was a really terrifying/terrified experience. Afterwards everybody was very shocking/shocked.
10. Why do you always look so boring/bored? Is your life really so boring/bored?
11. He’s one of the most boring/bored people I’ve ever met. He never stops talking and he never says anything interesting/interested.
· Attorney general генеральный прокурор
· Notary public государственный нотариус
· Court marshal военный трибунал
· Secretary general генеральный секретарь
· President elect вновь избранный президент
I. SO and SUCH
SO is used | SUCH is used |
· Before an adjective She is so babyish. I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse. · Before an adverb He spoke so quickly that I couldn’t understand him. | · Before a noun She is such a baby. · Before an adjective + noun · It was such a comfortable bed that I went straight to sleep. |
Put in SUCH or SO.
1. The weather was ____________ cold that all the football matches were cancelled.
2. It was ___________ hot weather that nobody could do any work.
3. It was ___________good film that I went to see it three times.
4. The book was ___________ boring that I stopped reading it.
5. They’ve got______________ a nice house that I always love staying there.
6. And their garden is ___________ beautiful.
7. His voice is ____________ pleasant that I could listen to him all day.
8. I don’t know why she talks in _________a loud voice.
II. Complete the sentences, using expressions with SUCH and SO.
1. It was __________ that I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face.
2. The canteen served _________ food that nobody could eat it.
3. It was _________ car that the police couldn’t catch it.
4. The case was __________ that nobody could lift it.
5. It was __________ lecture that I couldn’t keep my eyes open.
6. This language is __________ that foreigners can’t learn it.
7. He was ___________ person that everybody liked him.
8. It was _____________ that I went to sleep standing up.
9. I wish my _____________ wasn’t/weren’t _________________.
10. I wish I hadn’t got _________________.
Certain adjectives can be used metaphorically: silky skin (soft and smooth like a silk), but a silk dress (a dress made of silk), stony look (disapproving look) but a stone wall (a wall made of stone). Golden eagle (a bird with gold-brown feathers), but a gold ring (a ring made of gold), feathery snowflakes (soft and delicate like feathers), but a feather pillow (a pillow containing feathers), metallic paint (paint which looks like metal) but metal-rimmed spectacles (glasses with a rim made of metal), leathery meat (too firm and difficult to cut) but a leather coat (a coat made of leather), a leaden sky (dark sky, the colour of lead) but lead pipes (pipes made of lead), a steely character (a hard, strong unkind character) but a steel-plated tank (a vehicle with a steel covering).
Choose the correct adjective.
1) A gold/golden eagle glided gracefully across the sky.
2) She ruined her silk/silky suit
3) We had to climb over a low stone/stony wall.
4) He approached the task with steel/steely determination.
5) Leathery/leather coats never seem to go out of fashion.
6) This plant has soft feathery/feather leaves.
7) The manager’s stone/stony expression showed that all was not well.
8) She was given an expensive gold/golden watch for her twenty-first birthday.
Some adjectives can be used with the as nouns to talk about groups of people in general:
The blind, the deaf, the disabled, the elderly, the homeless, the hungry, the living, the middle-aged, the old, the poor, the rich, the sick, the strong, the unemployed, the weak, etc.
Cf: Disabled people need help and understanding. The disabled need help and understanding.
Fill in ‘ the’ where necessary.
1) He takes ___ disabled children in his area riding on Friday morning.
2) When the government decided to raise taxes ___ rich people were unhappy and ___ poor were devastated.
3) Christmas can be a very sad time for ___ lonely people and ___ homeless.
4) We were relieved to hear that all ___ injured were recovered from the wreckage before the plane exploded.
5) ___ survivors carried ___ injured people to the ambulances.
6) ___ deaf communicate by using sign language.
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