Adjectives and Adverbs 3

Grammar and Vocabulary Ⅰ

June 17, 2011

Small conversation

What time do you usually get up on weekends?

Which do you like better, Saturday or Sunday? And why?

How do you usually spend your weekends?

Do you have any plans for this weekend?

What is your ideal weekend?

Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjective A kind of word which names a quality In a sentence “This is a heavy box”, “heavy”

is an adjective Adverb

A word used with verb, adjective, or another adverb telling how, when, and where

Jane carefully (→how) washed her skirt yesterday (→when) and hung it here (→where)

Exercise 2 (pp.23-24)

(1) You speak German (fluent / fluently).

　⇒ fluently（流暢に）(2) Don’t drive your car too (fast / fastly).

　⇒ fast（速く）(3) This is a (Korea / Korean) doll.

　⇒ Korean（韓国の、朝鮮の）

(4) (Frank / Frankly) speaking, you are wrong.

　⇒ Frankly（率直に、正直に）(5) My wife came home (late / lately) last

night.　⇒ late（遅く、遅めに）(6) You must study (hard / hardly) to

pass the exam.　⇒ hard（熱心に、一生懸命に）

(7) There are (much / many) books in the library.

　⇒ many（多数の、多くの）(8) Joe has only (a few / a little) friends.

　⇒ a few（少数の、少しの）

Exercise 4 (pp.24-25)

(1) You must not be late for school.

(2) The number of traffic accidents is decreasing lately.

　 late ⇒ 遅れた、遅刻した、　 lately ⇒ 最近、近頃

(3) It was hard work.

(4) It is hardly believable that he won the lottery.

　 hard ⇒ 難しい、骨の折れる、めんどうな

　 hardly ⇒ ほとんど～ない、とうてい～ない

(5) My house is near to the train station.

(6) Nearly three thousand people came to the concert.

　 near ⇒ ～の近くに　 nearly ⇒ ほぼ、ほとんど

Conversation Practice

He Drives Very Carelessly Pay attention to adjectives and

adverbs

A: I think he’s a careless driver. B: I agree. He drives VERY

carelessly.

2. A: I think he’s a slow chess player. B: I agree. He plays chess VERY

slowly.

Unit 98 Adjectives and Adverbs

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Order of adjectives of quality

Several variations are possible but a fairly usual order is: adjectives of

size general description age, (little) shape color material origin purpose

Unit 97Adjectives: a nice new house

Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together: My brother lives in a nice new house. There was a beautiful large round wooden

table in the kitchen. Adjectives like new/large/round/wooden

are fact adjectives Adjectives like nice/beautiful are opinion

adjectives

Unit 97Adjectives: a nice new house

Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives

We put fact adjectives in this order: How big? How old? What color? Where from? What is it made of? Noun

Unit 97Adjectives: a nice new house

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Participles used as adjectives

Present participles (ing) and past participles (ed) can be used as adjectives.Present participle adjectives,

amusing, boring, tiring etc., are active and mean ‘having this effect’.

Past participle adjectives, amused, horrified, tired etc., are passive and mean ‘affected in this way’.

Unit 96Adjectives ending in –ing and -ed

There are many adjectives ending in –ing and –ed, for example: boring and bored.

Somebody is bored if something (or somebody else) is boring. Or, if something is boring, it makes you bored. So, Jane is bored because her job is boring. Jane’s job is bored, so Jane is bored. (not

Jane is boring.) If a person is boring, this means that they

make other people bored: George always talks about the same thing.

He’s really boring.

Unit 96Adjectives ending in –ing and -ed

My job is boring.

interesting.

tiring.

satisfying.

depressing.

I’m bored with my job.

I’m not interested in my job any more.

I get very tired doing my job.

I’m not satisfied with my job.

My job makes me depressed.

Julia thinks politics is interesting.

It was surprising that he passed the exam.

The movie was disappointing.

The news was shocking.

Julia is interested in politics.

Everybody was surprised that he passed the exam.

We were disappointed with the movie.

I was shocked when I heard the news.

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Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for

today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Have a good weekend!Have a good weekend!