Category: Grammar
Verbs – Unit 10
What are verbs?
Task : Provide the definition of Verb and give 5 examples of verbs in a sentence
Suffix and Prefixes
Unit 9 – Grammer (Phrases of time sequence)
Unit 9 – Grammer (order of adjective)
Sometimes we use more than one adjective in front of a noun:
He was a nice intelligent young man.
She had a small round black wooden box.
Opinion adjectives:
Some adjectives give a general opinion. We can use these adjectives to describe almost any noun:
good | bad | lovely | strange |
beautiful | nice | brilliant | excellent |
awful | important | wonderful | nasty |
Some adjectives give a specific opinion. We only use these adjectives to describe particular kinds of noun:
Food: tasty; delicious
Furniture, buildings: comfortable; uncomfortable
People, animals: clever; intelligent; friendly
We usually put a general opinion in front of a specific opinion:
Nice tasty soup.
A nasty uncomfortable armchair
A lovely intelligent animal
Usually we put an adjective that gives an opinion in front of an adjective that is descriptive:
a nice red dress; a silly old man; those horrible yellow curtains
We often have two adjectives in front of a noun:
a handsome young man; a big black car; that horrible big dog
Sometimes we have three adjectives, but this is unusual:
a nice handsome young man;
a big black American car;
that horrible big fierce dog
It is very unusual to have more than three adjectives.
Adjectives usually come in this order:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
General opinion |
Specific opinion |
Size | Shape | Age | Colour | Nationality | Material |
We use some adjectives only after a link verb:
afraid | alive | alone | asleep |
content | glad | ill | ready |
sorry | sure | unable | well |
Some of the commonest -ed adjectives are normally used only after a link verb:
annoyed; finished; bored; pleased; thrilled
We say:
Our teacher was ill.
My uncle was very glad when he heard the news.
The policeman seemed to be very annoyed
but we do not say:
We had an ill teacher.
When he heard the news he was a very glad uncle
He seemed to be a very annoyed policeman
A few adjectives are used only in front of a noun:
north south east west |
northern southern eastern western |
countless occasional lone |
eventful indoor outdoor |
We say:
He lives in the eastern district.
There were countless problems with the new machinery.
but we do not say:
The district he lives in is eastern
The problems with the new machinery were countless.
Unit 9 – Grammar (adverbs)
Adverb song – Padlet Reflection