Unit 99. Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired
Unit 99; Part A
Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together:• My brother lives in a nice new house.
• In the kitchen there was a beautiful large round wooden table.
Adjectives like new/large/round/wooden are fact adjectives. They give us factual information about age, size, colour etc.
Adjectives like nice/beautiful are opinion adjectives. They tell us what somebody thinks of something or somebody.
Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives.
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Unit 99; Part B
Sometimes we use two or more fact adjectives together. Usually (but not always) we put fact adjectives in this order: |
Unit 99; Part C
We use adjectives after be / get / become / seem:• Be careful!
• I'm tired and I'm getting hungry.
• As the film went on, it became more and more boring.
• Your friend seems very nice.
We also use adjectives to say how somebody/something looks, feels, sounds, tastes or smells:
• You look tired. / I feel tired. / She sounds tired.
• The dinner smells good.
• This tea tastes a bit strange.
But to say how somebody does something you must use an adverb (see Units 100-101):
• Drive carefully! (not Drive careful)
• Susan plays the piano very well. (not plays ... very good)
Unit 99; Part C
We say 'the first two days / the next few weeks / the last ten minutes' etc. :• I didn't enjoy the first two days of the course. (not the two first days)
• They'll be away for the next few weeks. (not the few next weeks)
Exercises
Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position.Key.2 an unusual gold ring
3 a beautiful old house
4 black leather gloves
5 an old American film
6 a long thin face
7 big black clouds
8 a lovely sunny day
9 an ugly yellow dress
10 a long wide avenue
11 a little old red car
12 a nice new green sweater
13 a small black metal box
14 a big fat black cat
15 a lovely little old village
16 beautiful long black hair
17 an interesting old French painting
18 an enormous red and yellow umbrella
| 1 a beautiful table (wooden / round) 2 an unusual ring (gold) 3 an old house (beautiful) 4 black gloves (leather) 5 an American film (old) 6 a long face (thin) 7 big clouds (black) 8 a sunny day (lovely) 9 an ugly dress (yellow) 10 a wide avenue (long) 11 a red car (old / little) 12 a new sweater (green / nice) 13 a metal box (black / small) 14 a big cat (fat / black) 15 a little village (old / lovely) 16 long hair (black / beautiful) 17 an old painting (interesting / French) 18 an enormous umbrella (red / yellow) | a beautiful round wooden table |
Complete each sentence with a verb (in the correct form) and an adjective from the boxes.Key.2 tastes/tasted awful
3 feel fine
4 smell nice
5 look wet
6 sounds/sounded interesting
feel look smell sound taste | awful fine interesting nice |
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 __________________ - much better than his old job.
Put in the correct word.Key.2 happy
3 happily
4 violent
5 terrible
6 properly
7 good
8 slow
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)
7 The soup tastes __________. (good / well)
8 Hurry up! You're always so __________. (slow / slowly)
Write the following in another way using the first... / the next ... / the last ... .Key.3 the last two days
4 the first two weeks of May
5 the next few days
6 the first three questions (in the exam)
7 the next two years
8 the last three days of our holiday
| 1 the first day and the second day of the course 2 next week and the week after 3 yesterday and the day before yesterday 4 the first week and the second week of May 5 tomorrow and a few days after that 6 questions 1, 2 and 3 in the exam 7 next year and the year after 8 the last day of our holiday and the two days before that | the first two days of the course the next two weeks ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ |
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