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ADJECTIVES. Adjectives are words which describe nouns (things and people). Adjectives in English usually go in front of the word they describe: We visited an old house. There are many nouns in English which are used as adjectives: a diamond ring, a library book, strawberry jam.
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ADJECTIVES • Adjectives are words which describe nouns (things and people). • Adjectives in English usually go in front of the word they describe: We visited an old house. • There are many nouns in English which are used as adjectives: a diamond ring, a library book, strawberry jam
ADJECTIVE ORDER • When we use more than one adjective, we usually put them in a certain order. We say: a strange old wooden chair (NOT a wooden old strange chair) • We usually begin with adjectives which give an opinion or general impression: a dangerous old car, a valuable silver spoon
ADJECTIVE ORDER • Adjectives which give factual information usually follow the opinion/impression adjective. They go in this order:
PUT THE ADJECTIVES IN BRACKETS IN THE CORRECT POSITION. • a beautiful table (wooden/round) • an unusual ring (gold) • black gloves (leather) • an American film (old) • big clouds (black) • a sunny day (lovely) • an ugly dress (yellow) • a red car (old/little) • a new sweater (green/nice) • a metal box (black/small) • a little village (old/lovely) • an old painting (interesting/French)
ADJECTIVE ENDING IN -ING AND -ED • Some common adjectives are formed from verbs and have both -ing and -ed forms. • We use the -ed form to describe our feelings: I’m tired. (= a description of how I feel) • We use the -ing form to describe the things which make us feel like this: This work is tiring. (= a description of the work)
ADJECTIVE ENDING IN -ING AND -ED • Compare these sentences: It’s a boring film. The visitors are bored. We had a relaxing holiday. The patient is completely relaxed. That was a very satisfying meal. The airline has many satisfied customers.
Underline the correct adjectives: • James told us some fascinating/fascinated stories. • Why do you look so depressed/depressing? What’s wrong? • Sarah’s got an amazing/amazed collection of rock CDs. • Felix has this really annoying/annoyed habit of reading my letters. • The boring/bored students started causing trouble in class. • I watched the show for a while, but it wasn’t really interesting/interested, so I left. • As the football team came out onto the pitch, their exciting/excited fans went wild. • The food in this canteen is absolutely disgusting/disgusted.
COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES A few adjectives have irregular comparative and superlative forms: good better the best bad worse the worst far farther the farthest When things are equal we use as….as: Classical music is as popular as rock music with our customers.
COMPLETE THE SENTENCES. USE A SUPERLATIVE OR A COMPARATIVE . • We stayed at _____ (cheap) hotel in town. • Our hotel was _____ (cheap) than all others in town. • The United States is very large, but Canada is _____ (large). • What’s _____ (small) country in the world? • I wasn’t feeling well yesterday, but I feel a bit _____ (good) today. • It was an awful day. It was _____ (bad) day of my life. • What is _____ (popular) sport in your country? • Everest is _____ (high) mountain in the world. It is _____ (high) than any other mountain. • We had a great holiday. It was one of _____ (enjoyable) holidays we’ve ever had. • I prefer this chair to the other one. It’s _____ (comfortable) • What’s _____ (quick) way of getting from here to the station? • Sue and Kevin have got three daughters. _____ (old) is 14.
ADVERBS • Adjectives (happy, beautiful) tell us about a noun. Adverbs (happily, beautifully) tell us about a verb, an adjective or another adverb. I feel happy. The children are playing happily. The weather is beautiful. She sings beautifully. • Adverbs give us information about time (when?), place (where?), manner (how?) and frequency (how often?). • Some adverbs are phrases: He’s arriving on Tuesday, so we’re meeting him at the station.
ADVERBS AND ADJECTIVES EASILY CONFUSED • Some adjectives and adverbs have the same form: fast, hard, late, early, daily, weekly, monthly:
ADVERBS AND ADJECTIVES EASILY CONFUSED • Hard and hardly are both adverbs but they have different meanings. Hardly means “almost not”: They hardly ever go on holiday. (= almost never) There was hardly anyone at the cinema. (= almost nobody) • Late and lately are both adverbs but they have different meanings. Lately means “recently”: I haven’t read any good books lately. • The adverb for good is well: It was a good concert. The musicians played well.
UNDERLINE THE CORRECT WORDS • She stepped confident/confidently onto the stage. • The meeting at lunchtime was a complete/completely waste of time. • She did good/well in the exam and she won a prize. • Max tried hard/hardly to make the hotel receptionist understand him, but his Spanish wasn’t fluent/fluently enough. • After looking at the computer screen all day I had an awful/awfully headache. • Even though Deborah did the job efficient/efficiently, they sacked her after two months. • The doctor couldn’t understand why Carol felt so hot because her temperature was normal/normally. • The boy behaved bad/badly on a school trip.