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English Language & Communication
Prof. Ahmed JADIR
Adjectives or Adverbs
Adjectives describe nouns — words that name a person, thing, place, or
idea. They also describe pronouns, which are words that stand in for nouns
(other, someone, they, and similar words). Adjectives usually precede the
word they describe, but not always. In the following sentence, the
adjectives are italicized:
The rubber duck with his lovely orange bill sailed over the murky bath
water. (Rubber describes duck; lovely and orange describe bill; murky and
bath describe water.)
An adverb, on the other hand, describes a verb, usually telling how,
where, when, or why an action took place. Adverbs also indicate the
intensity of another descriptive word or add information about another
description. In the following sentence, the adverbs are italicized:
The alligator snapped furiously as the duck violently flapped his wings.
(Furiously describes snapped; violently describes flapped.)
Most adverbs end in -ly, but some adverbs vary, and adjectives can end
with any letter in the alphabet
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Practice
I- Complete the story about Great Gatsby's visit to China. Use these adjectives + a suitable
noun: Delicious, long, famous, old, big, difficult, friendly, hot, busy
Yesterday, Great Gasby flew back to London from China. It was a very (1)… -20 hours- and he
feels tired today.
He was on holiday in China. He stayed in an (2)………. Three hundred years ago an emperor
built it. The only problem was that there was no (3)……… in the rooms so everybody had cold
showers. He visited many (4)…….., for example, The Great Wall of China. He ate some (5)….
His favourite was egg fried rice. He met a lot of very (6)…… Gatsby can't speak Chinese so they
spoke to him in English. He tried a few words in Chinese but people said it is a (7)…. to learn.
A lot of things in China surprised him. For example, the (8)……… There were hundreds and
hundreds of bicycles on the roads all day and all night. There was never a quiet moment.
Gatsby wants to go back to China next year. He knows it is a (9)……. and he only saw a small
part of it.
II- Complete the sentences with an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
1. Ali is sometimes a dangerous……. I think he drives ………. when he's in a hurry.
2. Lora's old car was slow but her new one is very………….
3. Gatsby looked………. when his team won the game.
4. It rained……… all day yesterday and the ground was very wet.
5. Mmmmm, what a wonderful………… from the kitchen. What are you cooking? I'm sure it's
going to taste…………………..
6. I think Mrs Jane is a good……… She taught my children…………………
7. Tom hasn't got a lot of money so when he goes shopping he always looks…..at the prices.
8. My parents were hard……….. They worked…………. all their lives.
9. Jackie did…………. in his test and had to take it again.
10. I spoke to Peter on the telephone this morning. He sounded really………… Someone stole
his car yesterday.
