Predicative use

Exercise 18. Ann has been married for several years. She’s looking at old photographs and writing comments on them. Complete each comment by choosing the correct words in brackets.

1. When I first met Karl he always dressed so (smart/smartly).

2. But after a month or two he started to look (awful/awfully)!

3. And when I took him home for the first time he behaved (dreadful/dreadfully).

4. Karl always looked (good/well) on the tennis court, but he never played (good/well).

5. This meal we had together in the south of France tasted (delicious/deliciously).

6. When I took this picture, Karl said I shouldn’t make fun of an (ill/sick) man.

7. On our wedding day the church bells sounded (wonderful/wonderfully), and the organist played the wedding march (loud/loudly) as we left the church.

8. As for the weather, our wedding day seemed (perfect/perfectly) – then the rain came down!

Exercise 19. Choose one verb and one adjective from these lists for each sentence.

Verbs: come, fall, feel, get, go, grow, keep, make, sit, turn

Adjectives: asleep, better, blue, ill, mad, old, quiet, sure, still, true

1. I was so tired that I __________ in the chair. 2. Do dreams ever __________? 3. I hear you’ve been ill. I hope you’ll __________ soon. 4. I think I’ll __________ if I hear that song again! 5. My hair’s grey and my teeth are falling out. I must be _________. 6. Please _________ or you’ll wake the baby. 7. Don’t move! Just _________ while I cut your hair. 8. Have you put all the lights out? I’ll just go and _________. 9. He was so cold that his nose _________. 10. Jane was ____________ so she went to the doctor’s.

Exercise 20. Decide whether the underlined words are right or wrong. Correct those which are wrong.

1. We lost the match because we didn’t play very good. (wrong – well) 2. Ann has been working hard recently. 3. Give my best wishes to your parents. I hope they are well. 4. The children behaved themselves very good. 5. I tried hardly to remember his name but I couldn’t. 6. The company’s financial situation is not well at present. 7. Jack has started his own business. Everything is going quite good. 8. Don’t walk so fast! Can’t you walk more slowly? 9. See you soon! Don’t work too hard.

Exercise 21. Decide whether the underlined words are right or wrong.

Example: The driver of the car was serious injured. wrong – seriously

1. Be quiet, please! I’m trying to concentrate. 2. I waited nervous in the waiting-room before the interview. 3. Why were you so unfriendly when I saw you yesterday? 4. It rained continuous for three days. 5. Alice and Stan are very happy married. 6. Tom’s French is not very good but his German is almost fluent. 7. Eva lived in America for five years, so she speaks very well English. 8. Everybody at the party was very colourful dressed. 9. Ann likes wearing colourful clothes. 10. Sue is terrible upset about losing her job.

Exercise 23. Complete each sentence with a verb and an adjective from the lists.

A: feel, smell, look, sound, seem, taste

B: awful, nice, fine, upset, interesting, wet

1. Ann seemed upset this morning. Do you know what was wrong? 2. I can’t eat this. I’ve just tried it and it ______. 3. Jim told me about his new job last night. It ______ quite ______, much better than his old job. 4. I wasn’t very well yesterday but I ______ today. 5. What beautiful flowers! They ______ too. 6. You ______. Have you been out in the rain?

Exercise 24. Choose the right word, adjective or adverb.

Example: The dinner smells good/well. – The dinner smells good.

1. Drive careful/carefully! 2. Please shut the door quiet/quietly. 3. This soup tastes nice/nicely. 4. Tom cooks very well/good. 5. Don’t go up that ladder. It doesn’t look safe/safely. 6. We were relieved that he arrived safe/safely after his long journey. 7. Do you feel nervous/nervously before examinations? 8. Hurry up! You are always so slow/slowly. 9. He looked at me angry/angrily when I interrupted him. 10. The child’s skin feels smooth/smoothly. 11. Everything went smooth/smoothly. 12. The film ended bad/badly. 13. He answered nice/nicely. 14. Your cooking is good/well. 15. She looked nice/nicely. 16. John looked sad/sadly when I saw him. 17. John looked at me sad/sadly. 18. The water smells well/good.

Exercise 25. Translate the words in brackets.

1. What beautiful flowers. They (хорошо пахнут) too. 2. Jack read his new story to me. It (звучало интересно). I hope the editor will like it. 3. I can't eat it. It (ужасно на вкус) and too much salt. 4. I wasn't very well yesterday but today I (чувствую себя прекрасно). 5. Have you been out in the rain? You (выглядишь промокшим). 6. Ann (казалась расстроенной) yesterday. Do you know what had happened?

Exercise 26. Translate the sentences.

1. Он зло посмотрел на меня, когда я прервал (interrupt) его. 2. Пожалуйста, закрывай дверь тихо, ребенок спит. 3. Ты можешь быть хоть минутку спокойным? Я так устала. Посиди спокойно (quiet). 4.Том прекрасно себя ведет и хорошо готовит. 5. Мне это не нравится, все это дело выглядит небезопасным. 6. Все волнения были позади. Он прибыл живым и здоровым. 7. Поторопись! Ты такой медлительный. 8. Суп вкусный (прекрасный на вкус). 9. Веди машину осторожно. Кажется, дорога очень скользкая. 10. Она была печальна; она печально смотрела на меня.

D. Adjectives: word order

Sometimes we use several adjectives together.

My aunt lives in a lovely small cottage.

In the garden there was a beautiful large square wooden table.

Adjectives like small/large/square/wooden are fact adjectives. They give us
objective information about something (age, size, colour etc.). Adjectives like
lovely/beautiful are opinion adjectives. They tell us what someone thinks of
something. Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives:

opinionfact

a nice sunny day

a beautiful large square wooden table

Sometimes there are two or more fact adjectives. Usually (but not always) we
put fact adjectives in this order:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

sizeageshapecolouroriginmaterialpurpose NOUN

a tall young man

big blue eyes

a small black plastic bag

a long brown wooden walking stick

an old French clock

Adjectives of size and length (big/small/tall/short/long etc.) usually go be fore
adjectives of shape and width (round/fat/thin/slim/wide etc.):