31 The adjective and the adverb
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Exercise
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Choose between the adverb and the adjective given in brackets to complete the sentences.
It is (correct/correctly).
Spell the word (correct/correctly).
You know it (well/good).
Of course it is (well/good).
It is (cold/coldly) in the room.
Don't look so (cold/coldly) at me.
I can do it (easy/easily).
I always worry if you come home (late/lately).
You are tired. You mustn't work so (hard/hardly).
10. She looks just (wonderful/wonderfully) in that new dress.
I can't hear the actors (well/good) from the last row.
I think it a (real/really) good play.
This soup makes me feel (bad/badly).
The actress is speaking (soft/softly), but I can hear her (clear/clearly).
The roses will (sure/surely) smell (sweet/sweetly).
The victim of the accident looked (helpless/helplessly) across the road.
Exercise 2
Fill in the blanks with one of the expressions translated into Russian as "еще": YET, STILL, ELSE, MORE, ANOTHER, AS EARLY AS, ONLY, EVEN.
It is quite late. And we haven't finished our work ... .
You are too young ... to understand all the sorrow of the human life.
... a year before the Tchaikovsky contest for pianists in Moscow in 1957, no one knew the name of Van Cliburn.
Mozart began to compose music before he could reach the keyboard, ... at the age of four he composed his first minuet.
When we thought that all the guests had arrived ... man came who was a total stranger to us.
Your mother impressed me with her exceptional beauty. She ... looks very young in spite of her hard life.
I know so little about your life. It seems to have been so eventful! What... can you tell about it?
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We definitely have to go because we are to meet Mrs. Munroe at five in spite of the rain ... .
What... yesterday seemed a dream has become reality today.
10. ... then I knew it was going to happen. I was always sure
that he wouldn't forget his former job.
11. My dear lady, you've always been a beauty but today you are ... more beautiful.
12. I was always fond of visiting new scenes and observing strange characters and ways of life. ... when a mere child I began my travels and made many tours of discovery.
13. I cannot do the translation ... , I've got something ... to do first.
l4. He was always so predictable, I felt at ease communicating with him but I am ... wondering why he behaved as if he I were taken aback.
15. The Egyptians knew geometry, astronomy, agriculture ... 3,000 B.C.
16. ... a month ago I couldn't possibly imagine that all my dreams would come true one day.
... and ... people crowded into St. Mark's square, it being an ordinary day full of tourists and street sellers' yelling in Venice.
You've only today arrived in St.-Petersburg and I knew nothing about your coming. Am I the only person you know here, whom ... do you know in this city?
To feel safe and secure we need to do one ... mile towards the White Hart otherwise we'll have to struggle our way in darkness under this rain.
Great Britain's first Parliament was formed ... 1265.
Exercise 3
Translate into English using the expressions which render the Russian.
Он редко смеялся, ещё реже плакал.
Ещё несколько десятилетий тому назад трудно было себе представить, что человек поднимется в космос, а сегодня это стало реальностью.
Не торопитесь, день ещё не закончился, Все может произойти.
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Ещё в детстве я очень любил рисовать. А теперь это детское увлечение стало смыслом моей жизни.
Ещё в 1445 году Иоганн Гутенберг напечатал первую книгу.
Она позвонила вчера ещё раз и обещала зайти и рассказать всё нам лично.
Я не могу встретить Ника. Завтра в это время я буду всё ещё занят.
Ты мне ещё не сказал, как твой отец воспринял твоё желание идти своим путём.
Ещё в древности людям были известны удивительные свойства некоторых драгоценных камней. Это положило начало магии.
Все это вполне поправимо и ещё не так поздно изменить принципы программы.
Робинзон Крузо все ещё надеялся, что какой-нибудь корабль может спасти его.
Вы ещё не знаете, что опыт оказался неудачным, и что лаборатория в ближайшем будущем будет закрыта?
Неужели она все ещё не забыла своей обиды на Вас? Ведь это было так давно.
Exercise 4
Fill in the blanks with one of the synonyms: FAIRLY, QUITE, RATHER, PRETTY.
He speaks French ... well, but I don't think he can handle a difficult situation.
It is not the best film ever made, but it's ... good. I would like to see it once more.
He is a very good linguist. He speaks three languages and ... well.
He has just written a novel. It is not the best book I have ever read, but it is ... good.
The weather is much better than the forecast predicted. It is ... a nice day.
Sixty five is ... old to start practising a new kind of exercise.
It has been getting ... warm lately. Very soon we shall be able to have picnics outdoors.
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He annoys me with his absolute confidence in his own cleverness. He is ... too sure of himself.
The cuisine of India is ... too hot for me. I prefer something milder and more delicate.
I only recently really noticed that she is ... a beauty. She used to be ... ordinary when I first met her.
There is something ... strange about the way he talks to you. I don't feel comfortable with him.
12. The Christmas tree and all the decorations were ... finished by midday.
13. In her sorrow she was left ... alone. But she succeeded in having her own way out of it.
14. You see, I couldn't help buying this car. It was ... cheap and certainly well worth the price.
15. One can never be ... sure what she is up to. She is so very unpredictable with her own ways and whims.