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Anglický jazyk, 3. ročník
Grammar
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Order of adjectives and adverbs of degree
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Review:
Order of adjectives
 We put adjectives describing type of purpose next to the noun. These
adjectives are often part of the noun.
A long steel hunting knife… (=knife used for hunting)
 We put “opinion” adjectives before others.
An amazing long steel hunting knife…

opinion size shape age colour origin material Type/purpose NOUN

(a)valuable large round Italian bedroom Mirror
(an)old red silk wedding dress

Be careful! We do not usually use more than three or four adjectives in front of
a noun. If we want to give more information we use another clause or sentence.

Making adjectives stronger or weaker

WEAKER STRONGER
A little/a bit/slightly fairly quite rather/pretty very really extremely

 A little; a bit = after nous.

The book was a bit expensive.
 Rather = with negative adjectives.
The test was rather difficult.
 Rather; quite = with positive adjectives is something surprising
The lesson is rather interesting. (=more than I expected)

Practice:
1. Put the word in brackets in the correct order and complete the
sentences.
0 Samira owns a lovely old French armchair. (French, lovely, old)
1 Tom lives in a……………....………cottage by the sea. (stone, little,
pleasant)
2 We bought a …………...………chest of drawers for the bedroom.
(wooden, big, new)
3 Did Melinda wear her …………………..…dress to the party? (pretty,
silk, blue)
 4 Their new house has a ……………………room. (living, big, new)
5 John gave her………………………….picture frame. (round, silver,
small)
6 Rembrandt was a ……..………………artist. (seventeenth-century, Dutch,
famous)
7 It´s one of those ……………………machines. (German, washing,
expensive)
8 Where´s that ……………………..……T-shirt you used to wear? (cotton,
red, horrible)

2. Read the sentences and choose the best words in Italics for each
meaning.
0 That meal was really expensive! less/more expensive than I expected
1 I need something a little larger. much/slightly larger
2 The weather´s pretty hot here. very/not very hot
3 I was shocked by that film – it was rather violent. more violent than/not
as violent as I like
4 I am sorry I´m a bit late. a few minutes/ a several hours late
5 She´s quite a good artist, despite her lack of training. better than/not as
good as I expected ceilings
6 This train is extremely fast. very/not very fast

3 Write a few sentences with different type of adjectives and adverbs

making these adjectives stronger or weaker.

……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
Key:

Ex. 1
1. Pleasant little stone
2. Big new wooden
3. Pretty blue silk
4. Nice big living room
5. Small round silver
6. Famous seventeenth-century dutch
7. Expensive German washing
8. Horrible red cottn

Ex. 2
1 slightly 2 very 3 more violent than 4 a few minutes 5 better than 6 very

Ex. 3
Student´s own answers.

Literatura:
SWAN, M. Oxford English Grammar course intermediate. Oxford: OUP, 2011.
ISBN 978-0-19-442082-2.

DAVIS, F.; RIMMER, W. Active Grammar with answers Level 2. Cambridge:

CUP, 2011. ISBN 978-0-521-17599-9.

FOLEY, Diane Hall and Mark. My grammar lab. 1. publ. Harlow: Pearson
Longman. ISBN 978-140-8299-159.