2.1 A safe big British plane

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Listen to the song below which talks about adjectives. Although it may seem childish, concentrate on pronunciation and, of course, on the adjectives used.

 



According to the song, what are adjectives used for?


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Most adjectives in English can be used in an attributive (in front of a noun) or predicative (after verbs such as be, seem, look, etc.) position. In any case, remember that in English they never take the plural -s.

Attributive position Predicative position
Paco took a big plane
Flying is becoming more and more expensive
It was an exciting flight
 It is really hot in Africa

 


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Now, it's time for you to recognize adjectives. Go back to the text in Section 1 and find out, at least, ten attributive adjectives and ten predicative ones.

 

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Click here if you want to read more information about adjectives. The information provided will be really useful to you as a way of introduction to the topic in which we will work on them.

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In English it is very common to use more than one adjective before a noun (attributive position), for example, Paco flew to the States on a safe big British plane. When this happens, we must place the adjectives in the right order according to type. We will study it in depth later in the unit. Now watch this video in which we are told the natural order of adjectives before a noun. It will help you with the activity below.

Notice the nominal phrases in the text in Section 1 whose nouns are modified by more than one adjective and pay attention to what those adjectives refer to.

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Can you recognize what types of adjective modify the nouns in the following nominal phrases?

By Cathrine Idsøe. C. Commons

1. a fantastic grey Italian suit

  
a. size, colour and origin
b. opinion, colour and origin

2. an interesting thick black book
  
a. opinion, shape and colour
b. opinion, size and colour

3. a terrible long South African hunting shotgun
  
a. opinion, size, origin and purpose
b. opinion, shape, origin and kind

Now that we have had a quick look at the adjectives in the text, let's go on to talk about other two important tenses in English: Past Simple and Past Continuous. But this will be in next section!
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