The adjective

Exercise 1. State the morphological composition of the following adjec­tives.

Pretty, bushy, weather-stained, thoughtful, hard-hearted, ille­gitimate, sober, non-party, low-bred, improbable, sceptical, coun­ter-revolutionary, careworn, beloved, wicked, disobedient, long-legged, regular, water-proof, large, well-timed, homeless, shaky, courageous, panic-stricken, blindfold, Portuguese, newly-baked, antique, peace-making, forlorn, illegible, abundant, red-haired, small, deep-blue, bookish, snow-white, respectable-looking.

Exercise 2. Give, the comparative and superlative degrees.

Cosy, merciful, bad, complete, fat, cheap, big, clumsy, stupid, far, miserable, narrow, virtuous, simple, merry, regular, expensive, low, deep, sad, significant, bitter, intimate, lazy, old, serious, tiny, clever,, little, considerate, gay, good, much, dark, beautiful, dear, fit.

Exercise 3. Use the adjective in the comparative or superlative degree.

1. They had dined well and were now drinking hard... their faces getting ____ and ____. (red, red) (Priestley) 2. Was there anything in the world ____ than indecision? (bad) (Galsworthy) 3. He was only five years ____ than I was, which made him forty-five. (young) (Snow) 4. He loved his brother and he had done his brother what people seemed to consider ____ of wrongs. (bitter) (Greene) 5. ____ sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indif­ferent to them. (bad) (Shaw) 6. He had been a great fencer, be­fore the war ____ fencer in Italy, (great) (Hemingway) 7. She is stopping at one of ____ . hoiels in town. (good) (Saroyan) 8; Diffi­cult to believe it was so long, ago, he felt young still! Of all his thoughts this was ____ , ____ . With his white head and his loneli­ness he had remained young and green at heart. (poignant, bitter) (Galsworthy} 9. She received congratulations as if she were ____ of women. (happy) (Hansford Johnson) 10. Kate remembered the little general; he was a good deal ____ than herself. (small) (Lawrence) 11. I think we'll resume the conversation when you're a little ____ , Caroline. (calm) (Maugham) 12. They had never made ____ pretence of believing him. (little) (Greene) 13. Things went from bad to ____ . (bad) (Saroyan) 14. He took his trinkets, carried them to the ____ pawnshop he could find, and being offered forty-five dollars for the lot, took it. (presentable) (Dreiser) 15. He felt her breathing grow ____ and ____. (slow, easy) (Cusack) 16. To be ashamed of his own father is perhaps ____ experience a young man can go through. (bitter) (Galsworthy) 17. It's ____ in here than it is on the street. (hot) (Salinger) 18. I think you're about ____ girl in school. (pretty) (/. Shaw) 19. All his life he had taken pains to be ____ , ____than his fellows. (strong, brave) (Saroyan) 20. From that moment may be dated the downfall of ____ and ____ of the Indian nations, that existed within the limits of the present United States. (great, civ­ilized) (Cooper) 21. Mr. Micawber, under pretence of showing me a ____ way than that by which I had come, accompanied me to the corner of the street. (near) (Dickens) 22 He would walk here and there and be no ____ than an ant in an ant hill.(conspicuous) (Greene) 23. We slept in a double-bedded room, which was ____ that the little country inn could do for us. (good) (Conan Doyle) 24. This is Sam Penty one of our ____ artists. (good) (Priestley)

Exercise 4. Translate into English.

1. Киев — более древний город, чем Москва; это один из древ­нейших городов России. 2. В XVI веке Испания была самой могущеетвенной державой мира. 3. Волга длиннее Днепра; это самая длинная река Европы. 4. Ватикан — самое маленькое государство в Европе. 5. Одной из важнейших проблем сегодняшнего дня является установление прочного и длительного мира. .Усло­вия жизни трудящихся в странах социалистического лагеря зна­чительно лучше, чем в странах капиталистического лагеря. 7. Можно надеяться, что в ближайшем будущем культурные связи с Англией будут еще более тесными. 8. Точка кипения (the boiling point) спирта ниже точки кипения воды. 9. Платина тя­желее золота; это один из самых, тяжелых металлов. 10. Утро было прекрасное, но к вечеру погода стала хуже, ветер усилился, и темные тучи покрыли небо.

Exercise 5. Point out all the substantivised adjectives and state whether they are wholly or partially substantivised.

1. He basked in the company of the young. (Snow) 2. We must take the bitter along with the sweet. (Reade)3. Shevvarned the do­mestics not to touch the child, as Mrs. Osborne might be off ended. (Thackeray) 4. It was a surprise to the "optimistic: but it was even more of a surprise to the experienced. (Snow) 5. Oh, I know he is a right good fellow, but it belongs to the rank of the impossible. (Meade) 6. Imogen turning her luscious glance from one to the other of the "old dears", only smiled. (Galsworthy) 7. How do I know what's gone on between you? The rights and the wrongs of it; I don't want to know. (A. Wilson) 8. Willoughby was wearing greens, garrison hat, and all his ribbons."'(Heym) 9. They were like poor savages confronted with a beautiful white girl. (Murdoch) 10. This year I covered half the world and saw people in such numbers — it .seems to me I saw everybody but the dead. (Bellow) 11. But they had been such innocents then! (Galsworthy) 12. He was, as they saw it, part of the rich and superior class and every poor man knew what that meant. The poor must stand together everywhere. (Dreiser) 13. I was soon to discover that Gevaert was never interested in what "inferiors" had to say. (Clark)