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1.1. Convert the following verbs and nouns into adjectives by means of suffixes.

  1. You can always rely on John. He is very (depend).You can always rely on John. He is very dependable.

  2. The doctor gave me a very (favour) report on my health.

  3. What a lovely picture! Your daughter must be very (artist).

  4. I think it’s very (reason) of him to expect us to work overtime this week.

  5. This rule is not (apply) in this case.

  6. Don’t tell anyone else. It’s (confide).

  7. This (wood) bed is very old.

  8. This girl spoke in a (child) voice.

  9. Do you speak (Turk)?

  10. You may throw it away. It’s (use).

  11. It’s tiring and (mind) work.

  12. This is a picture of a (want) criminal.

  13. She is definitely a (kind heart) woman.

1.2. Read the following poems paying attention to the pronunciation of adjectives.

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,

And they lived together in a little crooked house.

In Bethlehem, in Jewry, this blessed Babe was born,

And laid within a manger, upon the blessed morn.

1.3. Make the adjectives in brackets negative.

  1. Some people were (flexible) in their desire to keep John out of major-league baseball. – Some people were inflexible in their desire to keep John out of major-league baseball.

  2. John remained (violent) in spite of receiving racial insults.

  3. When John retired, he became (patient) to see other black people succeed in their careers.

  4. John’s work against racial prejudice remains (finished).

  5. I am afraid he is (conscious).

  6. How (credible) it is!

  7. Your passport has become (valid).

  8. Using other people for one’s own profit is (moral).

  9. If he can do this job his age is (relevant).

  10. These tribes remain to be (literate).

  11. He was (obedient) to his mother.

  12. It’s (legal) to park your car here.

  13. The forms of (regular) verbs should be learned by heart.

  14. He got money by (honest) means.

UNIT 2 POSITION OF ADJECTIVES

1. Usually the adjective in English precedes the noun it describes: unspeakable joy, available figures. (Not only adjectives but many English nouns are commonly used as premodifiers of other nouns and thus resemble adjectives though remain to be nouns: a stone wall, a love poem.)

2. The adjective may follow the word it modifies in the following cases:

  1. for emphatic use of adjectives (usually ending in –able/-ible): joy unspeakable;

  2. in certain fixed forms, mainly legal terms that must be learned, such as court martial, attorney general;

  3. after the pronouns derived from some, any, no, every: Is there anything new today?

  4. when the adjective is a member of an adjectival group of words: a steamer ready to sail off; the only figures available on this question. (In Russian the adjectival group may follow or precede the noun: готовый к отплытию пароход и пароход, готовый к отплытию);

  5. the adjective enough may follow or precede the noun it modifies: We have enough time = We have time enough.

3. In sentences the adjectives may be placed in the predicate, following a linking verb to be, get, become, seem, smell, sound, taste, feel, look, etc.: a deep river – the river is deep; a sweet peach – the peach tastes sweet. However, some adjectives, usually relative ones, for example, analytical chemistry, can not be transformed into *chemistry is analytical. (See the next unit).

4. Some adjectives are restricted to predicative position only: asleep, alone, alive. The most common of them refer to health or lack of health: ill, well, unwell. Another large group of them take complementation: afraid (that, of, about), conscious (that, of), fond (of): She is afraid of him.

5. When two or more adjectives are used, the one that describes a more objective quality stands closer to the noun: a huge wooden salad bowl.

The general rule is that purpose and material adjectives stand closer to the noun, then still further from it goes origin, colour, shape, age, size and opinion adjectives:

opinion + size+ age+ shape + colour + origin+ material + purpose + NOUN

as in: a marvelous big old oval brown Swiss wooden plate; two lovely tiny nineteenth-century circular pink and blue French water-colour paintings.

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