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78. Big/tired/beautiful, etc. (Adjectives)

A. adjective + noun (nice day / brown eyes, etc):

adjective + noun Its a nice day today. Ann has brown eyes. Theres a very old church in this town. Do you like Chinese food? I dont speak any foreign languages. There are some beautiful yellow flowers in the garden.
The adjective is before the noun : - They live in a modern house. ( not a house modern) The endings of adjective do not change: - a different place different places ( not differents)

B. be (am / is/ are / was / were, etc) + adjective:

The weather is nice today. Those flowers are very beautiful. A : Can you close the window, please? B : Why? Are you cold? The movie wasnt very good. It was boring. Please be quiet. Im reading.

C. look / feel / smell / taste / sound + adjective:

Compare:

You look tired. Yes, I feel tired too. Pat told me about her new job. Sounds interesting. Dont cook that meat. It doesnt smell good. He is tired. / He feels tired. / He looks tired.

Raymond Murphy. Essential Grammar in Use. Singapore : Cambridge University Press. 2002.

Exercises
78.1 The following words are adjectives (black/foreign, etc.) or nouns (air/ job, etc). Use an adjective and a noun to complete each sentence.

air hotels person 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

black clouds dangerous expensive foreign fresh interesting job knife languages long old photograph problem serious sharp vacation Jack doesnt speak foreign languages. Look at those in the sky! Its going to rain. She works very hard and shes very tired. She needs a ... I enjoy talking to her. Shes an .. Fire fighting is a .. Can you open the window? We need some . This is an of Tom he looks very different now. I have a I hope you can help me. I need a . to cut these onions. They have a lot of money they always stay at

78.2 Write sentences for the pictures.

look(s) feel(s)

sound(s) smell(s)

taste(s) look(s)

sick Awful

happy new

surprised nice

Raymond Murphy. Essential Grammar in Use. Singapore : Cambridge University Press. 2002.

3 Write sentences. In these conversation you dont agree with Tom. Use the word in parentheses ( ). You Tom 1. You sound happy. Really? (feel) I dont feel happy. 2. Hes American. Is it? (sound) He doesnt . 3. Shes very rich. Is she? (look) She .. 4. You look cold. Do I? (feel) I .. 5. They are very friendly. Are they? (look) They 6. That hamburger looks good. Really? (taste) It .............
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Raymond Murphy. Essential Grammar in Use. Singapore : Cambridge University Press. 2002.