PACK 1 – OBJECT DESCRIPTION

PART I
Read the text on Zaha Hadid’s work as a designer and find out why
some of the string of words have been underlined for you:

Zaha Hadid's Luxury Homeware Line

Aqua Platter, £9,999, from Zaha Hadid’s new ZHD homeware collection.

Veins bulge from a wasp-waisted candle holder, while sinuous flow-

lines run down the side of a teacup, splitting to merge seamlessly with
the faceted saucer beneath. It looks like a colony of mutant life forms
has scuttled into Harrods’ interiors department, which can only mean one
thing: Zaha Hadid has taken on homewares.

At the age of 63, the Iraqi-born architect has won every prize going,
graced international power lists and erected buildings across the globe
– and now she’s making a bid for your dining table. Her collaborations
beyond architecture have already stretched to extreme jewelry and
improbable footwear, with knuckle-duster rings and a pair of shoes that
look like metallic whirlwinds swirling around your ankles. She has
designed a handbag for Fendi, vases for Lalique, and a perfume bottle
for Donna Karan, as well as the obligatory luxury yacht – and even a
raunchy range of swimwear, leading to rumours that she is starting her
own fashion label (a suggestion hotly denied by her team). From
Lacoste to Louis Vuitton, Alessi to Pharrell, everyone wants a piece of
brand Zaha. But now she’s cutting out the middle-man and doing it for
herself.

“We’ve done many different collaborations in the past,” says Christian

Gibbon, general manager of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). “But this is
our own debut lifestyle collection. We’re aiming for affordable pieces
that can be bought on the high street, but which are also aspirational.”
Ranging from bone china cups (starting at £38) to limited-edition

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serving platters (yours for £9,999), the definition of affordable might be
stretching it, but it’s no doubt nothing out of the reach of regular Harrods
shoppers – where the “capsule collection” is on exclusive sale for the
first month of its launch.

A snip at £76. Aqua placemat by ZHD homeware.

The work of Zaha Hadid Design, one of seven companies registered in

her name, and the branch of the office that handles interiors, products
and exhibition design, the objects are the result of the practice’s ongoing
pursuit of fluid geometries and experimental organic structures. But
in some ways, it represents Hadid coming full circle. Like many young
architects, she started out designing interiors in the 1980s, making side
tables and sofas saturated with a Russian constructivist air, way
before she began building. Following the trajectory of her architecture,
this new collection is imbued with an interest in a much more supple
language, Malevich shards exchanged for a voluptuous aesthetic of
her own making.

Although Gibbon insists that “they are not miniature buildings,” the
pieces nonetheless bear a definite family resemblance to recent projects,
and many have been drawn from structures developed by the architect’s
in-house “code group”, a kind of laboratory for producing alien forms.

The Aqua platter – four teardrop swooshes that resemble the fanned
petals of a bird of paradise flower – is based on a distorted version
of London’s Olympic Aquatics Centre, each tray flexing in a taut arc
before coming to rest on three points, just like the building. CNC-milled
from blocks of transparent acrylic, and hand-finished in Italy, they
have an alluring jewel-like quality – which sadly evaporates when you
touch them. Expecting the expensive ring of cast glass, you instead find
the cheap rattle of a plastic picnic tray, which belies the £10,000 price

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tag. Those on tighter budgets can make do with the Aqua acrylic
placemat – a snip at £76.

Across the collection, the ghosts of Hadid’s buildings begin to emerge.

The closer you look, the more they start to form particular families, a
mutant genealogy of creatures at different stages of evolution. They
are like early embryonic forms of her buildings, plucked from the
parametric womb before they have matured into fully fledged pieces
of architecture, still slippery and gelatinous. It is as if, by some quirk
of natural selection, the siblings were separated before birth – one went
on to become an Olympic swimming pool, the other was destined to
hold nuts and olives. One will soon be a skyscraper in Asia, while its
stunted sibling will hold your scented candle in the downstairs loo.

Like the skyline of Shanghai squaring up to Dubai... the Field of

Towers chess set by ZHD homeware.

Geometric experiments for towers in Brisbane and Beijing have proved

particularly fruitful as a source of inspiration, providing the basis for
cups, saucers and flasks, as well as a gleaming resin chess set. For
£4,860, you can do battle with your very own armies of Zaha Hadid
skyscrapers, the double rows of twisting totems facing off across the
board, like the skyline of Shanghai squaring up to Dubai.

There is a range of scented candles (a personal Zaha favourite)

housed in blocky ceramic holders, modelled on the base of a tower

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proposed for Miami. As if squeezed into a futuristic corset, the building
will be braced by a concrete exoskeleton of bifurcating flow lines.
When scaled down to tabletop size, the form recalls the entwined
tendrils of art nouveau styling, with a slightly sinister sci-fi air –
Victor Horta meets HR Giger on a dark night. Available in white (the
fresh and lemony “oriental”) or black (the dark and musky “opulent”), they
range from £99 to £252. Hadid already has several, and it turns out they
provide a useful indicator to her employees. “Zaha loves scented
candles,” says one designer. “If you smell a candle in the office, you
know she’s coming.”

For a practice whose work is so focused on the production of novel

forms, it appears that the product-development line provides a useful
scale of experimentation, before multi-millions are invested in buildings.
“Architecture takes years and years to produce, but with products you
can get something to market within a year,” says Maha Kutay, co-director
of the design team. “All the pieces are designed by architects, and it can
provide a rejuvenating break from the monotony of working on a
building.”

Slightly sinister sci-fi air? The Prime Orientscented candle, £299, by ZHD
homeware.

In some ways it recalls the approach of the master architects of yore,

from Frank Lloyd Wright and Arne Jacobsen, to Alvar Aalto and Eero
Saarinen, who enjoyed a megalomaniac control over every detail, each
project conceived as a gesamtkunstwerk, from the door handle to the
city block. It might seem like an unlikely return to such times, but there
is increasing demand from clients, particularly in Asia, for Hadid to
extend her attentions beyond the jazzy envelope of the building down to
the interiors and furniture. In the case of ZHA’s new homewares

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collection, however, it seems to be a process of reverse-engineering,
scaling down her architectural proposals into trinkets.

“It’s a challenge trying to adapt the structural language of a building into

something the size of a piece of furniture,” says Wandy Mulia, an
architect who worked on the design of the Radia stools, little munchkin
seats sprayed with sparkling car paint, which are based on another
tower design.

It makes you wonder if the extreme formal language of Planet Zaha

isn’t better suited to the tabletop, where there is less to go wrong, freed
from the critical realities of context and function. Perhaps these
sweeping sinews are more appropriate for the privacy of the devoted
fan’s living room, rather than imposed on the skyline for all to endure.
They are the kind of bijou sculptural experiments that may work better
when elegantly perched on a shelf, rather than forcefully lumbering
across an urban block. It is strange, but in Harrods’ exclusive home
department, Zaha Hadid might well have found her calling.

VOCABULARY

Veins bulge: veins protrude outwards

Scuttle into: penetrate through a small opening
Knuckle-duster rings: rings shaped like a band of metal with four holes
that fits over the upper fingers and is gripped when a fist is made, used
as a weapon.
Raunchy range of swimwear: a range of openly sexually explicit
swimwear
A snip: a small piece cut or clipped off.
Teardrop swooshes: teardrop shape object that makes a swirling or
rustling sound or movement// a swirling or rustling sound like a teardrop
Taut arc: tightly stretched arc
Some quirk: a sudden sharp turn or twist; in architecture: a lengthwise
groove on a molding between the convex upper part and the soffit
Stunted: something done to attract public attention
Jazzy envelope: a flashy, fancy envelope
Lumber across: walk or move with heavy clumsiness
munchkin seats: undersized seats (dwarfish)

PART II: TEXT STUDY – ENGLISH IN USE – GRAMMAR ISSUES

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1. Pinpoint the difference between the underlined and non-underlined
words/groups of words.

2. Study the following presentation focusing on a. Adjectives; b. Nouns

as Adjectives -Participles as Adjectives – Of and ‘S Genitive; c.
Order of Adjectives; d. Adverbs. e. Position of Adverbs.

a. I. Adjectives

Generally speaking, adjectives describe people, objects, situations,

ideas. In English, as you already know, they stand before a noun
and take no plural form. More often than not, adjectives come into one
form (new, old, little, etc.), but given the huge capacity of conversion of
the English language, there is a great amount of adjectives converted
from other grammatical categories by way of suffixes & prefixes, as
follows:

Suffixes:

-al: drinkable; - al: critical; -ant: petulant; -ar: angular; -ary: ancillary;
-ate: fortunate; -en: wooden; -ent: dependent; -ean: Shakespearean;
-ous: indigenous; -esque: picturesque; -ful: fruitful; -ian: Canadian; -ible:
edible; -ic: historic; -ical: historical; -ious: hilarious; -ish: whitish; -ist:
fundamentalist; -less: fruitless; -like: homelike; -ly: friendly; -ory:
introductory; - ous: pompous; -some: quarrelsome; -y: sparky.

Prefixes:

a-: amoral; ab-: abnormal; anti-:anti-communist; dis-: disobedient;

extra-: extracurricular; hyper-: hypersensitive; il-: illogical; im-:
impossible; in-: invincible; ir-: irrational; mal-: malnourished; non-: non-
academic; over-: oversized; post-: post-industrial; pre-: prenuptial;
sub-: subconscious; un-: unreliable; under-: undermanned.

STOP READING! LET’S PRACTISE:

1.Derive adjectives from the following words:

day …..; victory …; base …; fear …; use …; beauty …; rust …;

accident …; responsibility …; affection …; life …; fool …; energy …;
sun …; hesitate …; circle …; glory …; humour …

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2.Use the word given in the capitals to form a word (an adjective) that fits
in the context:

1. I’m told that the room at the top is only … to the happy few. ACCESS

2. Her … business strategy has made her a very rich person. SCRUPLE

3. My daughter’s … attitude to her teachers led her to bad learning

achievements. RESPECT

4. I was so … with my work that I hardly noticed my friend’s entering the

room. OCCUPY

5. The child was so thin and … after being abandoned in a foster home.
NOURISH

6. My mother’s handwriting was so …, that I couldn’t make what she was

writing. LEGIBLE

7. Special schools are recommended for … children. ADJUST

8. The city of Shanghai is known for being noisy, …, and polluted.

POPULATE

9. For decades now, the EU has been trying to impose … salaries in all
countries.

10. The idea of buying a new flat downtown is … to him, as he’s been
used to live in a village. APPEAL

2. Fill in weak, feeble. (Collocations)

1. … tea; 7. … defence

2. …attempt; 8. … heart

3. … boy; 9. … supports

4. … eyesight; 10. … bones

5. … voice; 11. …light

6. … smile; 12. … case

3. Fill in valuable, precious

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1. … stone; 6. … friend; 11. … links

2. … advice; 7. … moment

3. …experience; 8. … antique

4. … metal; 9. … jewelry

5. … discovery; 10. …time

4. Use the collocations from the above exercise to describe an item of

jewelry.

III.SOME REMARKS ON ADJECTIVES; PARTICIPLES AS

ADJECTIVES

a. Compound adjectives are formed with:

-present participles: a long-standing debt

-past participles: a brown-eyed young woman

-cardinal numbers + nouns (to be discussed below, under b.):

twenty-year-old furniture

-prefixes and suffixes like well, badly, ill, poorly + participles: a

poorly-paid clerk; ill-fitting wallpaper;

b. Some adjectives ending in –ly look like adverbs (friendly,

motherly, lonely, lovely). They can be converted into adverbs by
adding the words way/manner/fashion: in a lovely manner

c. Adjectives such as poor, late, old have different meaning

according to the place in the sentence:

My uncle is very old (years). / Mary is an old friend of mine (we’ve known
each other for a long time).

d. Some adjectives can be made into collective nouns by adding the

article the: the rich, the poor, etc.

e. Present and Past Participles can be used as adjectives.

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Present Participle describes the quality of a noun: an annoying
behavior (What kind of behavior?

Past Participle describes how the subject feels: an annoyed teacher

(How does she/he feel?

f. Certain adverbs can be used as adjectives: the above sentence;

the upstairs bedroom, the inside page.

STOP READING! LET’S PRACTISE!

1.Make compound adjectives to describe the following:

1. an architect who has brown eyes =

2. a cat who mews constantly =

3. a car that moves fast =

4. a room with poor lighting =

5. a table with three legs =

6. a student who speaks Chinese =

7. a clerk who behaves badly =

8. a teacher who has a broad mind =

2. Fill in the appropriate present or past participle:

1. I’ve been admiring the (fan) petals of a bird of paradise flower.

2. He couldn’t stand his (stunt) sibilings.

3. My colleagues have found some (twist) staircase in an ancient

building.

4. I was impress by the (shimmer) expanse of the airport.

5. Some of the architects brought in at least one (unplan) proposal.

6. Her words were such a (rejuvenate) break from the monotony of my

intense work.

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b. Nouns as Adjectives. The of and ‘s Genetive in English.
Highlights.

I General Rules
A). Noun + Noun: a bicycle factory; an architecture project; coffee beans
B). Noun + ‘s + Noun: my sister’s car; cow’s milk; architect’s house
C). Noun + Preposition + Noun: the top of the page, a feeling of
disappointment, a man from Bucharest, a study on urban planning
There is no precise analysis on this subject. The rules describe
tendencies, and there are quite a number of exceptions. You have to
check with a dictionary.
A). a). Noun 1 + Noun2 = A). Noun 1= an adjective
A horse race (a kind of race); a race horse (a kind of horse); mineral
water (a kind of water); an airport bus = a bus that goes to the airport
b). Noun1 is in the singular – therefore, it becomes an adjective
c). Articles are dropped:
The architects in the institute are well paid; Institute architects are well
paid.
d). More than 2 nouns can be put together – therefore, they behave like
adjectives
Wallpaper material costs.
B). Noun + ‘s + Noun
Noun1 is a subject to Noun2 that is a verb or object:
My mother’s car = My mother has a car.
The committee’s report = The committee made a report.
A child’s bicycle = A child rides this kind of bicycle.
The train’s arrival= The train arrived.
C). Noun + Preposition + Noun
When the above combinations are not possible, we use a preposition;
this is so because the nouns involved express abstract notions.
A feeling of disappointment; a dream of happiness.

II Classifying expressions
a). Noun + Noun = used to talk about things belonging to a common
class:
the postman; the insurance man; a history book
a book about the moon; *a moon book
a corner table; *a table of the corner
girl in the corner; *corner girl

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b). Refers to something that is used by or produced by/from a person:
a child’s book; a pair of women’s jeans; birds’ nests
III Special Cases
1) Parts: we use ‘s structure to talk about parts of people’s body:
a man’s leg; a sheep’s heart
But with non-living things we use N + N or “of” structure:
A table leg; the roof of the house; the door of the room, etc.
With words like: top, bottom, back, side, inside, outside
The back of the room/house
Exceptions: seaside, roadside, mountain top
2) Units, selections and collections:
“of” with words referring to units, etc
A piece of paper; a blade of grass
3). Used by
‘s structure can refer to something that is used by a person/animal:
Children’s clothes; women’s magazine
But: baby bottle (AE)
4). Produced by/from
A cow’s milk; lamb’s wool; sheep’s wool
But: camel hair, horsehair
When the animal is killed to provide something we use N + N
Calf skin; fox fur; chicken soup
5). Containers: N + N for particular containers:
A matchbox; paint tin; a coffee cup
But: a box of matches – to talk about container + contents
A tin paint; a cup of coffee
6). Made of: N + N
A silk dress; a stone bridge; a stone house, etc.
Compare:
A gold watch – golden memories
Silk stockings – silken skin
A lead pipe – a leaden sky
A stone roof – a stony silence
7). Measurement: N + N
A five – litre can; a ten – pound note
8). Measurement of time:‘s structure or N + N:
A day’s journey; a three hours’ journey = a three-hour journey

IV Nouns as adjectives

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Some authors advise against using nouns as adjectives, but
consider the following example, where the first two words are
nouns functioning as adjectives:

(a) Plant disease diagnosis requires both traditional and new techniques.

To avoid using the nouns as adjectives, you would need to add two
prepositional phrases:

(b) The diagnosis of diseases of plants requires both traditional and new
techniques.

How do you decide which is better? As always, use your ear (listen for
rhythm or its absence) and most importantly, consider your reader. In this
particular case, I would use (a) because the noun string is not difficult to
understand and does not ring the rhythm from the sentence, whereas the
repetitive start of (b) ‘The diagnosis/ of diseases /of plants/ is deadening’.
A third version would be fine:

(c) The diagnosis of plant disease requires both traditional and new
techniques.

Now let's use a longer string of nouns as adjectives:

(d) Plant disease diagnosis technology has become sophisticated.

When too many nouns are strung together as adjectives, the reader must
wait too long to understand how the nouns are functioning. There is also
a consonance problem (disease diagnosis technology).
I would revise (d) to (e) but not to (f):

(e) The technology of plant disease diagnosis has become sophisticated.

(f) The technology of the diagnosis of diseases of plants has become

sophisticated.

In the following example (g), note how the excessive use of nouns as
adjectives complements a static writing style:

(g) Earthworm burrow construction information has increased our

understanding of soil stable aggregate formation.

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Rather than resorting to prepositions, I would find an actor and action.

(h) By studying how earthworms construct burrows, we better understand

how stable aggregates form.

STOP READING! LET’S PRACTISE

1. Discuss the following examples from the text on Zaha Hadid:

- A colony of mutant life forms – WHY NOT – a colony of forms of

mutant life.
- Power list – WHY NOT –list of power.
- A raunchy range of swimwear – WHY NOT – A raunchy swimwear
range.
- Bone china cups – WHY NOT – china cups of bone.
- Limited-edition serving platters – WHY NOT – Limited-edition of
platters for serving.
- Four teardrop swooshes – WHY NOT – four teardrops swooshes.
- Tabletop size – WHY NOT – top of the table size.
- Product-development line – WHY NOT – line of product-development.

2. Underline the correct item:

1. Father drove us to the station in stone/stony silence.
2. I would be a great idea to pack one or two pairs of woolen/wool
trousers.
3. The sky at night looked glorious in the silver/silvery moonlight.
4. She was presented with a gold/golden necklace on her 18th
anniversary.
5. Maria dropped by our summer/summery house in Athens.
6. I used to hate long silk/silky dresses.

3. Choose the phrase the fits the context:

Though the materials—walnut and leather—feel familiar and vintage, the

forms are predictably Zaha, which is to say, out of this world. Fluidity and
a sense of weightlessness pervade the series, which comprises a (four-
piece coffee table; four-pieces coffee table) that encloses a hole, a
(large dine table; large dining table) with a glass eye in the middle,
and (arch; arched chairs). UltraStellar is on view at David Gill Gallery in
London through October 2016.

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Hadid's projects are characterized by their dynamic formal qualities of
sinuously, (curved; curving shapes), or (crystal-like; crystallized
strata). This sums up as a kind of new Baroque, a sensuous, more
vibrant and (engaging type; engaged type) of architecture.

Along with her strong conceptual and (historical awareness; historic

awareness), nature's forms and shapes appear as a recurrent
(inspiration source; source of inspiration) for Zaha Hadid's
architecture. It includes attention to physical contexts and landscapes,
whether resulting in (layered structures; structures of layers) or
powerful moving lines but also exploring possible interfaces between
patterns and construction.

b. Order of Adjectives

There are some general rules as to order of adjectives. However,

that cannot be strictly followed since it depends a lot on the
speaker’s intention or feeling, in which case any ‘trespassing’ of
the rule points to an emphasis on the part of the speaker.

num opini size/ age shap colo verb/ origi mate NOU
ber on e ur/ n/nat rial N
weig parti ional
ht temp cip. ity
. form
all/b three nice small roun brow carve wood table
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first
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Here some further rules:

1.When two adjectives of the same category are used, the more
general adjective comes before the more specific one.

E. g. a gallant, kind man

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2. You should commas to separate adjective which are equally
important; commas are never used to separate the last adjective
from the noun it modifies.

E.g. a long, fruitful career; a rare, precious stone

STOP READING! LET’S PRACTISE

1. Put the following adjectives in order:

1. We’ve found serendipitously a/an (medium size, parallelepiped,

old) armchair in the basement.

2. Some people just love (upholstered with floral silk, ageing, French)
sofas.

3. Instead of buying a computer, Patricia ordered a (polygonal,

smashing, Italian) bracelet on the internet.

4. When they entered the house, Peter stumbled over a/an (copper,
small, odd) table.

5. Believe it or not, the actress was presented a/an (yellow, large,

Japanese) screen instead of flowers.

6. The company has produced a new sports car with (leather,

maroon, soft) seats.

d. Adverbs

Study the following examples:

- Splitting to merge seamlessly with the faceted sauced beneath.

- a suggestion hotly denied by her team.

- which sadly evaporates.

- early embryonic forms.

- fully fledged pieces of furniture.

- proved particularly fruitful.

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What do you notice?

Complete the possible definition of ADVERBS.

ADVERBS usually describe ……………, but they can also modify …………, ………………, or other
adverbs.

-Adverbs of Manner are usually formed by adding –ly to the adjectives:

careful – carefully; clear – clearly, etc.

-Adverbs/Adjectives with the same form:

best; cheap*; clear*; cold*; daily; dear; direct; early; easily*; extra; fair*;
far; fast; fine*; first*; free*; further; hard; high; hourly; inside; last; late;
long; loud*; low; monthly; past; quick*; right*; slow*; straight; sure*;
thick*; thin*; tight*; weekly; well; wide; wrong*; yearly, etc. 1

-Adverbs with two forms and different meanings:

-direct = by the shortest route; -right = correctly, exactly; -last = after all
others

-directly = immediately; -rightly = wisely; -lastly = finally

-hard = in a hard way; -deep = going a long way down; -late = after the
usual time

-hardly = scarcely; deeply = greatly; -lately= recently

-high = to a high level; free = without charge or cost; -pretty = fairly

-highly = very much; -freely = willingly; -prettily = in a pretty way

-short = suddenly; -wide = fully

-shortly = not long, soon; -widely = very much

STOP READING! LET’S PRACISE!

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Adverbs with and asterisk (*) can also be found with the –ly form. If so, they are usually
placed before verbs, participles, and adjectives. Otherwise they are less formal.

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 1. Replace the words in italics with appropriate verbs. You may
choose from the box beneath the text:

1.The president was looking graciously as he passed through the crowds

expressing their approval.

2.John has been listening to George's small talk and after a while he
started talking mockingly.

3.Grandpa was telling again his story about his mishap in the war, while
his grandson was making efforts to suppress his laughter.

4.An intellectual snob often looks contemptuously at the efforts of others

to acquire knowledge.

5.When I was telling them about the new technologies in constructions,

one of my student kept looking at me laughing nervously, partly in a
suppressed manner.

6.As the actress passed through the crowds, she heard people shouting
at her disapprovingly.

smile; jeer; snigger; sneer; cheer; titter; boo.

2. Replace the group of words in italics with an appropriate adverb

from the list below. There are some extra adverbs:

reluctantly; imaginatively; indifferently; stealthily;

superficially; outspokenly; explicitly; conclusively;
indiscriminately; conceivably.

1. Although unwilling to do so, the student accepted his tutor's

solution.

2. The board looked over the project with lack of interest.

3. The choice of this site, it may be imagined, could lead to a lawsuit.

4. Helen is that kind of person who reads whatever at hand.

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 5. The new student voiced his remarks without any reticence or
reserve.

e. Position of adverbs in a sentence:

subject + verb manner place time

(+object)
shorter longer
period period
He drew his project quickly in the in three last week
studio hours

subject + verb (+object) place manner time

Patrick went out hurriedly at 5 p.m.

time (when it is not the main subject + verb place manner

focus of the message) (+object)
Every Monday he goes to by bike.
hospital

-Adverbs of Frequency: they are usually places after the auxiliary

verb or before the main verb, but in short answers, they precede the
auxiliary verb:

E.g. I have never visited Barcelona’s most famous highlights.

She is late for school again. Yes, she always is.

We sometimes go for a swim in our neighbours’ pool.

-Adverbs of Degree are usually placed before the words they modify:

E.g. She draws quite quickly.

We gave the porter only 1$.

-Adverbs such as probably, evidently, obviously, presumably,

undoubtedly, etc. can take a front position or as the adverbs of
frequency.

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E.g. Evidently, they have denied the allegations.

The theorist will presumably lecture in our university next month.

STOP READING! LET’S PRACTISE

1.Underline the correct word:

1.The direct/directly route to the city centre saves a lot time.

2. You can buy a book and choose one free/freely.

3. My colleagues hard/hardly worked on the project, yet they got high

grades.

4. I will join them short/shortly; I have to change my tie first.

5. They went deep/deeply into their research, but no results seemed to

come out of it.

6. The owner of the castle was right/rightly upset, when the visitors told
him they were short/shortly of money.

7. The winners of the competition were deep/deeply touched by the

chairman’s speech.

8. The car went right/rightly through the bedroom wall.

9. The reporter told that after the hurricane, the water level was
highly/high for a week.

10. As soon as we were left moneyless, we appealed direct/directly to

our parents.

2. Put the adverbs in the right place in the following sentences:

1. Young architects find work in a top architectural office. (seldom)

2. Students are complaining about their tutors in the 2 nd year of study.

(always)

3. Our team won the competition. (unexpectedly, amazingly,

yesterday)

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4. Many people feel that some ordeals they went through are part of their
fate on earth. (sometimes).

5. The famous architect delivered the lecture and the documentary was
shown. (first, later)

6. If you go to museums, it’s a good idea to buy a museum pass.

(frequently)

7. I read the internet news pages to see where the world is heading.
(often).

3.ADDITIONAL PRACTICE

Find out if the noun phrases comply with the established rules.

Braid vases candleholders. Image © Zaha Hadid Design

Zaha Hadid Design has released images of its latest collection set to be
featured at the Maison et Objet 2019 in Paris later this month. The
collection, embodying Zaha Hadid’s inventive process, features a Swirl

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bowl in crystal glass, and a monochromatic marble collection from the
Cell range.

The Cell stainless steel centerpiece features complex, precise,

undistorted perforations using laser technology. Reflecting the spirit from
which it was made, the piece “provokes an emotive response to
transitions, through the material and geometry; solid to void, hexagonal
to sphere, static to explosive,  resulting in the creation of playful
compositions.”

The firm has also released the Hew tray, defined through a series of
subtle, functional movements. These include a gently upturned surface
and undulating base, creating voids for carrying, and dips for resting. The
piece’s dynamism is accentuated through contrasting colors created by a
powder-coat finish.

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