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Aa Unit . Adjectives She's a beautiful, poor girl. She's a lucky girl. She's a beautiful, rich gi A. Adjectives describe nouns. We use them: E 1. before a noun: We went to an expensive restaurant. like black coffee. 2. after the verb be: The weather is cold in the winter. Her father is angry. 3. after the verbs feel, Ióok, seem, smell, sound, taste (see Unit 94): l feel tired. You look beautiful in that dress. This soup tastes wonderful. The orchestra sounds great. 4. after get arid'become: He got angry. She became rich. Remember: adjectives in English have only one form for both singular and plural nouns: I met a good friend. l have a lot of good friends. (Not: geede-friende] B. When there are two or more adjectives in front of a noun, we separate them with a comma. We do not use and: They have a large, brick house. (Not: terge-ane-briek] A handsome, young, French student joined the class. (Not: Ande Sung on dt Aotudant] But: we use and between two colours: /ve got a red and white football shirt. After be, feel, look etc., we use adjective and aújective: He is young and handsome. She looks besutiful, intelligent and generous. (three adjectives) C. When there is more than one adjective, we usually place them in this order: Age | Shape | Colour | Nationality | Material Noun | a large | new brick house |! a small square yellow plastic box H a tall young ¡ American student a wonderful new French film 1.2 valuable antique Chinese vase *= 1 a Underline all the adjectives ín this piece of writing. “1 dont like romantic books. The stories are all ¡0 A AM - The hero is always a . tall, (2) .... young man. The heroíne is a (3)... young woman with (4) hair and (5) eyes. These perfect people fall in love but there is always a serious problem. Perhaps the girl has rich parents and the boy ís o - Perhaps the boy has already promised to marry a different girl who is rada and selfish. But at last these difficult problems disappear. They get A ATA, Ea m1] “ Adjectives cold, angry, expensive married and the story ends. On the pink and white cover of the book, there is a picture of the (8) ... couple giving each other a long, passionate kiss. 1 think this kind of story is stupid amd unrealistic. 1 want to read about e IA ÓN space travellers who fight long wars against dangerous aliens ÍI0M (10) con... galaxies.” b_ Now write suitable adjectives in the gaps. Choose words from this list (you do not need all the words): 0 0 A 0% ia? bald bealtiful blonde ¡£blue brave dissimilar distant hahdsome y : happy interesting jealous kind poor red rich similar ugly MN a E hi ml Cc Putaistar (") when the writer uses adjective and adjective (eg. large and expensive”). . 2 Pill each gap with a verb in its correct form from Box 1 and an adjective from Box 2. 8 become become feel feel look look smell smell sound sound taste taste cold delicious expensive Italian lovely poor rich Russian terrible terrible tired wonderful . . Ml eat some more. 2. The orchestra is no good. The 3. Im going to put on my coat. 1. 4. Do you enrnnescareanaarnazaras. 2 YOU'Te half sleep. 5. The roses ... but the lilies have no POrfume. 16. She ..cocccicoiicccnnnniónós but really she comes frorn Wales. 7. Your new Can L usesome (00? B.SM8 coccion aller she lost her but I bought it for 50p. 10. Where does Mr Ivanov 11. Don't eat the soup! ooooooocincccncccno. a 12, BobD¡MCOGIVEO voococorocorcosocóóneses by selling second-hand cars. Put these adjectives in their usual order in front of the noun. Inttude Gny necessary commas. .- CAT. (American/large/olad) 1. a/arí ..large..old, American. : . clock. (eighteenth-century /English/smal) night-dress. (nylon/pink/short) ring. (diamond /beautifu) village. (old /Scottish/smal/beautiful) handbag. (new/plastic/ugly/yelow) notice. (black and white/large/triangujor) EEE rinconcito EAS palace. (beautiful /French/ola) gorden “small/squara) . coiniRoman / More about adjectives the young, the French ms 1 Rewrite these sentences using the + nationality adjective. 1. People from America eat a lot of hamburgers. E » dictionary to help you if you wish. 2. possible . 3. normal .... 5. necessary 6. similar 8. fashionable . 9. hopeful 12. clear ... me 3 Look at the sentences 1-10. Put a circle round people if it is possible to omit it. Put a tick if it is necessary. Use ab-, im-, in-, un-, dis-, -less to make the opposites of these adjectives. Use a 15. expensive 1. The poor gsoplPneed help from the government. 2. I met some of the lucky people who won the lottery. Y 3.1like the French people. 4. The young people and the old people don't understand each other. 5. The Chinese people havé a very old civilisation. 6. The American people elect a president every four years. . 7. The rich people in the school have their own cars. 8. The rich people should help the poor people. stayed away from the dangerous people in the city. 10. Modern technology can help the deaf people and the blind people. ROPEN EXERCISE mu 4 Write any suitable adjectives in the gaps in this story. We travelled through the ooo... jungle for days. In the trees, ....oonoconn... parrots watched us while . Pe temple. We found a/an hole in the ground. When we opened it, we saw . cs -- Monkeys ran along the branches. At last, we reuched the -- box in a/am ... . jewels. At that mor 
