Главная страница Случайная страница КАТЕГОРИИ: АвтомобилиАстрономияБиологияГеографияДом и садДругие языкиДругоеИнформатикаИсторияКультураЛитератураЛогикаМатематикаМедицинаМеталлургияМеханикаОбразованиеОхрана трудаПедагогикаПолитикаПравоПсихологияРелигияРиторикаСоциологияСпортСтроительствоТехнологияТуризмФизикаФилософияФинансыХимияЧерчениеЭкологияЭкономикаЭлектроника |
Exercises
98.1 Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position. 1. a beautiful table (wooden/round) _a beautiful round wooden table_. 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) ---. 98.2 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 after _the next two weeks_ 3. yesterday and the day before yesterday --- 4. the first week and the second week of September --- 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 --- 98.3 Complete each sentence with a verb (in the correct form) and an adjective from the boxes. verb: feel smell look seem smell sound taste adjective: awful fine nice interesting upset wet 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. 98.4 Choose the correct word. 1. This tea tastes a bit _strange._ (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 doing a job if you don t do it ---. (proper/properly)
UNIT 99 Adjectives and adverbs (1) (quick/quickly) A. Look at these examples: * Our holiday was too short - the time went very quickly. * The driver of the car was seriously injured in the accident. Quickly and seriously are adverbs. Many adverbs are made from an adjective + -1y: adjective: quick serious careful quiet heavy bad adverb: quickly seriously carefully quietly heavily badly For spelling, see Appendix 6. Not all words ending in -ly are adverbs. Some adjectives end in -ly too, for example: friendly lively elderly lonely silly lovely B. Adjective or adverb? #1 Adjectives (quick/careful etc.) tell us about a noun. We use adjectives before nouns and after some verbs, especially be: * Tom is a careful driver. (not 'a carefully driver') * We didn't go out because of the heavy rain. * Please be quiet. * I was disappointed that my exam results were so bad. We also use adjectives after the verbs look/feel/sound etc. (see Unit 98D): * Why do you always look so serious? #2 Adverbs (quickly/carefully etc.) tell us about a verb. An adverb tells us how somebody does something or how something happens: * Tom drove carefully along the narrow road. (not 'drove careful') * We didn't go out because it was raining heavily. (not 'raining heavy') * Please speak quietly. (not 'speak quiet') * I was disappointed that I did so badly in the exam. (not 'did so bad') Why do you never take me seriously?
Compare: * She speaks perfect English.(adjective + noun) * She speaks English perfectly.(verb + object + adverb) Compare these sentences with look: * Tom looked sad when I saw him. (= he seemed sad, his expression was sad) * Tom looked at me sadly. (= he looked at me in a sad way) C. We also use adverbs before adjectives and other adverbs. For example: reasonably cheap (adverb + adjective) terribly sorry (adverb + adjective) incredibly quickly (adverb + adverb) * It's a reasonably cheap restaurant and the food is extremely good. * Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to push you. (not 'terrible sorry') * Maria learns languages incredibly quickly. * The examination was surprisingly easy. You can also use an adverb before a past participle (injured/organised/written etc.) * Two people were seriously injured in the accident. (not 'serious injured') * The meeting was very badly organised.
|