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ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS PRACTICE 1 - Basic English Grammar Book 2 - Practice
ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS PRACTICE 1 - Basic English Grammar Book 2 - Practice
ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS PRACTICE 1 - Basic English Grammar Book 2 - Practice
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Sydney is a large Australian city with busy streets and expensive shops. In summer, it’s a very
hot place. People wear cool clothes and drink cool drinks. There are beautiful sandy beaches
where people can rest and look up at the wide blue sky. There are big parks for tourists to
visit. Japanese tourists like to sit and watch other people. British tourists take photographs of
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My friend Jeremy is a handsome tall boy. He always wears a white long T-shirt and a big red
cap. He carries a blue huge canvas bag to school. His favorite food is red crunchy apples
and he always has one in his bag. Our teacher is an English kind tall man called Mr. Clark.
He wears a blue smart suit and glasses with black plastic thick frames.
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Phrases can be used like single adjectives to describe nouns and pronouns.
Phrases that are used in this way are called adjective phrases.
Most adjective phrases come after the word they describe. Look at these
examples. The adjective phrases are in bold and the nouns they describe
are in color.
Who is the J O W O J D ?
My friend lives in the DF W W W.
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This is the D W 7 O .
The OD W E S is a friend of mine.
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a OO lady a W F W coin
aI O J teenager aW W W building
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Paul likes playing football. He’s a very good player, but his friend Sally is a
Paul likes her. Paul thinks all games are exciting, but football is the
( F W J) game and it’s ( ) than all the other games he plays with
his friends. When the grass is wet, everyone gets dirty when they play football. But Sally gets
( W ) and ( W) than everyone else.
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Determiners, or noun signals, are special adjectives used before nouns.
There are different kinds of determiners.
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The words a, an and the are called the articles.
The words a and an are indefinite articles. They are used with singular
nouns. Use a before nouns that begin with a consonant. Use an before
nouns that begin with a vowel.
Some vowels have a consonant sound as well as vowel sound. Use the article a
with nouns that begin with these vowels:
Some words begin with a silent h. Use an with nouns that begin with a silent h:
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We have seen that most adverbs describe verbs, but remember that some
adverbs also describe adjectives or other adverbs. They are usually used to
add emphasis.
Here are some examples. The emphasizing adverbs are printed in bold.
The adjectives or adverbs they describe are printed in color.
Anna can run D D .
That’s a Y drawing.
My rice is .
The film was E .
Your excuses are F P E YDE .
These old tools are D .
She sings T E D .
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5. We went to play. ( DF )