Oxford Practice Grammar Basic

8 Adjectives
Review Exerciseand
8 – adverbs (Units
Adjectives 65-77) (Units 65–77)
and adverbs
A Look at the text in each question. What does it say?
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Lucas!
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1 A This door opens easily. PUSH HARD!
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C Open this door carefully. PUSH HARD!

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Thursdays
is open on
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from22p.m.
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55p.m.
tois p.m. on
Thursdays
open
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andcafé 5isp.m.
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from 2 p.m.
Tuesdays andtoThursdays
5 p.m.
from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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Carla
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the T-shirt. It It
was
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actually a bit too big for me, but
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Carla,
back
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the
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shop the
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back to the shop and changed it for one was
for one
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back to the shop and changed it for one
Janey
 5 A child of 100 cm …
A isn’t tall enough to go on the ride. You must be
B is too tall to go on the ride. 120 cm or taller
C is rather small to go on the ride.
to go on this ride.

B Here are some sentences about a wedding anniversary meal. Complete the second
sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use no more than three words.

 My husband and I don’t usually eat out.

My husband and I usually eat at home .

1 We celebrated our wedding anniversary yesterday – we’ve been married for five years.
It was our wedding anniversary yesterday.

2 There is no restaurant in this town that is better than The Orchid.

The Orchid is restaurant in this town.

3 All the chefs at The Orchid are very good.

All the chefs at The Orchid cook very .

4 Unfortunately, I couldn’t finish my meal because it was too spicy.

Unfortunately, my meal was I couldn’t finish it.

5 Also, we needed more money to pay the bill.

Also, we didn’t have pay the bill.

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