MODULE 2: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

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MODULE 2: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

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Grammar: Adjectives - Adverbs

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RDJECTIUES

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Adjectives describe people, places, things, ideas, etc. They have only one form in all genders, singular and plural, and can be placed before nouns or after verbs such as appear, keep, make, feel, sound, smell, look, taste, etc.

She is a pretty girl. They are hard-working students.

It smells horrible. Keep quiet, please!

Most common adjectives (large, long, heavy, late, etc) do not have a particular ending. However, there are certain common endings for adjectives which are formed from nouns and verbs. These are:

- able

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- ant - or - ary - ate - en - ent - ean

fashionable classical petulant angular imaginary fortunate wooden dependent Shakespearean

- ous - esque - ful - ian - ible - ic - ical - ious - ish

courageous picturesque careful Canadian possible historic historical hilarious reddish

- ist -less -like

-Iy

- ory - ous - some

-y

racist careless businesslike friendly introductory famous quarrelsome lucky

The most common prefixes used with adjectives are:

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ab anti dis extra hyper-

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amoral abnormal anti-aircraft dishonest extracur"ricular hypersensitive illegal

im in ir malnon overpost -

impossible intolerant irregular malnourished non-stop overgrown post-modern

pre pro sub super un under-

premature pro-American subtropical superhuman untrue undermanned

1 Write the adiectives made from the following words.

day victory base fear use beauty

daily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ...... ...... ..... ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

rust

............................ ..

accident

............................. .

responsibility ............................. .

affection

............................. .

life

............................. .

fool

............................. .

energy sun hesitate circle glory humour

2 Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.

1 I was told that the information I was looking for was classified and ........................ to the public.

2 His .............................................. business methods have gained him a bad name.

3 Jane's ................................... behaviour towards her superiors led to her dismissal from the job.

4 The manager was so ............................. with his work that he failed to notice me standing there.

5 The child was emaciated and ....................................... after being abandoned by its parents.

6 "Her hand writing is '" .................................; how does she expect me to read it?"

7 Special schools are recommended for ............................................. children.

8 The city of Athens is known to be noisy, ....................................... and polluted.

9 The European Union is trying to ......................................... salaries in all countries.

10 The idea of moving to the countryside was ....................... to him as he was used to living in the city.

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