ml 16 This is 2 small village. It looks peaceful. There are some lovely old houses. © Adjectives describe nouns (a big car). They have the same form in the singular and plural. 0g. a small house ~ small houses © Adjectives go before nouns. 0.9. a beautiful girl They can also be used alone after the verb to be and after verbs such as look, smell, sound, feel, taste, etc. €.9. Jack is tall. You look sad. © There are two kinds of adjectives: opinion adjec- tives (beautiful, good, etc.), which show what a person thinks of somebody or something, and fact adjectives (long, strong, young, etc.), which give us factual information about age, size, colour, etc. ORDER OF ADJECTIVES © Opinion adjectives go before fact adjectives. eg. a beautiful silk dress When there are two or more fact adjectives in a sentence, they usually go in the following order: Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material a small old square blue Thai silk scarf @ We do not usually have a long list of adjectives before a single noun. A noun is usually described by one, two or three adjectives at the most. 4g. an expensive Persian silk carpet Fill in the gaps with the correct adjective from the list. lovely, fresh, quiet, cosy, bright, excelent, tall, comfortable The coitage was beautiful. Ithad a 1) ...cosy... atmos phere. The rooms were small but 2) There Was a 3) «.. fire buming in the fireplace, and the smell of 4) roses filled each room. The old furniture wes in 5) condition. The garden was 6) There were 7) trees all round the garden and colourful flowers near the cottage. It was very 8)... and peaceful. | didn't want to leave. Fill in the correct adjective. oval, careful, thick, adventurous, long, generous 1 Explorers are brave and .........adventurous. 2. Rugby balls aren't round, they're mane man. He 3 Uncle Sam is a very nn always brings us gifts when he visits us 4. This book is very Itdoesn't fit in my bag. 5. This dress is too I need to shorten it 6 Ricky isa driver: You have inherited the following things from your grandmother. Describe them by putting the adjectives in the right order. e.g. a small wooden table 2 some round/ china /beautiful plates 7 & 3 acnstal/Venetian/ 4 a(n) gold expensive/ring blue/vase 5 two silver/old/ a diesticks candlestick 6 ain) antique /wooden/ CE lovelyfratio 1a wooden /small/tableAgvetks Ho Farmers wake up early in the moming. They work hard all day. They go home late in the evening. @ An adiverd can be one word (carefully) or a Phrase (in the park). Adverbs show manner (how), place (where), time (when), frequency {how often), etc. e.g. He drives carefully. (How does he drive? Caretully. - adverb of manner) Your coat is here. (Where is it? Here. - adverb of piace) He left for Italy yesterday. (When did he leave? Yesterday. - advert» of tme) He usually eats out (How olten does he eat out? Usually. - adverb of frequency) © Adverbs usually go after verbs. e.g. He walks slowly. © Adverbs of frequency go after auxiliary verbs and the verb to be, but before main verbs. e.g. He Is always on time for appointments. He has never visited Paris. He always comes to work on time. Formation of adverbs © We usually form an adverb by adding -ly to the adjective. @g. dangerous - dangerously @ Adjectives ending in -le drop the -e and take -y. eg. gentle - gently ® Adjectives ending in consonant + y drop the -y and take -ily. eg. easy -easily © Adjectives ending in -1 take -ly. .0. wonderful - wondertully Adjectives-Adverbs-Com © Some adverbs are not formed according to the above rules. They have either a totally different form or the same form as the adjective. on aaa fm SS om hard —> hard early —- early Tate —> ate ORDER OF ADVERBS © When there are two or more adverbs in the ‘same sentence, they usually come in the fo! lowing order: manner — place — time (how) (where) (when) He was studying hard —inhis room last night. If there is a verb of movement (go, come, leave, etc.) in the sentence, then the adverbs come in the following order: place — manner — time (where) ee (when) She came home bybus —_yesterday. Write the adverbs of the adjectives in the list In the correct box. a bad, quiot, impossible, easy, noisy, careful, horrible, lazy, simple Put the words from the list below into the correct column. good, nicely, well, monthly, sadly, cheap, tall, strongly, fast, cold, early, sofly, wide, carefully, late, pretty, loudly. hard | Aajesive | Aas [Ase and avr mes-Adverbs-Comparisons Put the adverbs from the list below into the correct box. sadly, quickly, here, last month, always, never, there, slowly, somewhere, tomorrow, cheerfully, ‘often, now, last week, sometimes, anywhere how (adverbs of manner) oadly where (adverbs of place) when (adverbs of time) how often (adverbs of frequency) Choose an appropriate adjective from the list, turn it into an adverb and put it in the correct sentence. a careless, fluent, proud, polite, happy, angry, heavy, serious, quick, careful 1 The children were playing ........happllya...usseme 2 The man drove .. and crashed his car. 3. The teacher shouted ++ because the sludents were making too much noise. 4 Jonathan speaks English 5 Itwas raining we stayed indoors. 6 The shop assistant placed the crystal vase .on the shelf 7 asked the man ... cross the road. yesterday, so seoee 10 Help me 8 Harry ran .. ... to catch the bus, but it had already left. 9 The actor who won the Academy Award was smiling S34 on the stage. 10. He looked at me never to lie to him again. and told me Underline the correct word. ‘A: I'm going to the shops now. B: Make sure you carry the eggs careful/carefully. Don't break them A: I'm going to Alison's house for dinner tonight. B: You'll enjoy it. Alison is a very good/welll cook 3. A: Have you finished that puzzle already? B: Yes, it was really easy/easily. A. Mr Jones shouted angry/angrily today. B: | know. He was in a very badibadly mood all day. A: Your mother is alviays cheerfullcheerfully, isnt she? B: Yes, she is always in a well/good mood. y vrscntne te correct wor | organised a surprise party for my friend, Edith, last week- end. All the guests arrived early and waited 1) quietiquietly nti Ecith got there. When she walked through the door, we all cheered 2) loudi/loudly. We went into the garden because it was a very 3) warm/warmly day. The guests all | gave Edith 4) nice/nicely presents and Edith thanked them 5) sincere/sincerely. We danced 6) happilyihappy to the music and had a7) wondertul/wonderfully time. The party was 8) successfullsuccesstully. ee 1 always / wake up /1// early J always wake up early. 2 by plane / we /to Spain / went 3. to work / she / ran / quickly 4. every afternoon / sleeps / my dog / in the garden | peacetully 5 they/ inthe kitchen / quietly / were talking 6 all moming/ happily /he / played / in his room 7. they /‘the street / carelully / crossed 8 yesterday / by taxi/ 1/ went / to work 9 in winter / they / never / go / to the beach 10 sometimes / takes / he / to the park / his children