Showing posts with label adjectives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adjectives. Show all posts

Tuesday

Unit 5 Vocab & Grammar 4º ESO

Passive Voice Grammar & Exercises


Question Tags Grammar & Exercises


                

Questions with Prepositions

1. When a question word is the object of a preposition, the preposition usually comes at the end of the clause, especially in an informal style. That is why we often put a preposition (WITH, AT, FOR, etc.) at the end of a question with WHO...? or WHAT...?, especially in spoken English.
Examples:
a. Who did you go WITH? (more natural than "With whom did you go?")
b. Who is that letter FOR?
c. What are you looking AT?
d. What is she talking ABOUT
?

★ MORE GENERAL EXAMPLES ★
-- What are you looking FOR?
-- Who did Anne send the money TO?
-- Where is your wife FROM?
-- What's your book ABOUT?
-- Who are you in love WITH now?
-- What are you all waiting FOR?
-- Who did you give your cell number TO?

Ex 1           Ex 2

Monday

Modifiers

There are some words which can be used to ‘intensify’ many adjectives. These words are called modifiers (also adverbs of degree).

A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause which functions as an adjective or an adverb to describe a word or make its meaning more specific.


another word.







Quite / Pretty / Rather / Fairly


Ex 1      Ex 2     Ex 3



Sunday

The Order of Adjectives

Sometimes you want to use more than one adjective to describe something (or someone). What happens if a hat is both brown AND old?

 Do we say… an old brown hat OR a brown old hat?

 An old brown hat is correct because a certain order for adjectives is expected.
A brown old hat sounds incorrect or not natural.


The order is NOT fixed

IMPORTANT: The order of adjectives before a noun is NOT 100% FIXED.

This chart is only a guide and is the order that is preferred.

You may see or hear slight variations of the order of adjectives in real life though what appears in the chart is the order that is expected the most.


Examples of the order of adjectives before a noun

A big fat dog.
An interesting old Indian rug.
A striped silk shirt
Some comfortable black sleeping bags
Four small round wooden tables
Those funny little old men


Ex 1               Ex 2