Практическая грамматика английского языка. Сборник упражнений
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10.No, you are getting this quite wrong. She is … wife of … friend of mine.
11.Prynne was … manager of … estate up … river.
12.With … face like yours I’d be at least … president of … steel company.
13.Learning comes easier to … young.
14.…public are requested to keep off … grass in … park.
15.I believe there is … theory that … men and … women emerge stronger.
16.…Future Tense is not used in … adverbial clauses of … time and
…condition.
17.He was at that time … lieutenant in … BritishArmy.
18.… Mr. Richardson was … owner and … editor-in-chief of … publishing house.
19.Rudy had … gift of being liked. That was why he was elected … president of his class three times in … row.
20.At that time I was … manager of … Crawford Street branch of … bank.
21.I saw … group of … workmen coming towards us. One of them was … fat, red-faced man and I presumed that he was … foreman.
22.It’s … girl called Betsy. She is … boss’s secretary.
23.Henry Green was … son of … general.
24.I might be … leader of … party instead of you.
25.His wife and Sheila were … active strong women who loved using their muscles.
26.I’m going to be … President of this company.
27.He was … manager of … largest estate in … district.
28.There seemed no reason why he should not eventually be made … Governor.
29.On … way back to … compartment we passed Natalie Winter. She was … very shy woman. She was also … star of … season.
30.She was proud of being … daughter of … poet.
31.If anyone could tell her what she wanted to know, Mrs. Ferguson was … woman.
32.Then Rudy saw … Professor Denton, … head of … History and Economics department.
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33.… sun was hanging over … hill behind them, … large red ball which had lost its fi erceness.
34.… Philip’s wife, … biggest snob in … family, invited me to … tea.
35.Then we were joined by … two women, … acquaintances of Charles andAnn.
36.… figure 5 is … same for … Russian or … American, while … word ‘fi ve’is not.
37.…Admiral Lacey was … red-faced man.
38.Then he walked down … Broadway, … main street of … town.
39.She was … daughter of … well-known theatrical manager, … willowy, wispy, fair-haired girl with … colourless eyes.
40.He assumed … role of … breadwinner for …family.
41.…General Holt withdrew his plan.
42.The had lunch at … Hexley, … small village on … coast.
43.He was their favourite nephew, … son of their dead elder sister.
44.Wespoketo…Philip’ssecretary,…youngishmancalledWilliams.
45.Within … short time Gregory married Zalia Phelps, … daughter of Angus Phelps, … planter in Georgia.
46.Smiley, … captain of ... team, got up on … bench and told them of his plan.
47.… nurse Everett, … bony woman of fifty, herself opened … door.
48.My friend Herbert was … professor of English literature at one of
…smaller universities of … Middle West.
49.He turned to me and said, «What … extraordinary names these boys seem to have.»
50.… Thames Street was … broad road on … edge of … town … half
…mile from … park. Most of … houses in it had been built just before … Second World War.
51.All … big hotels are very much the same.
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ТЕМА: ADJECTIVE
Упражнения
EXERCISE 1. Translate into English paying attention to ways of expressing comparison.
1.Вы моложе вашей сестры? – Нет, я на два года старше ее.
2.Этот рассказ еще интереснее того, что мы читали вчера.
3.Наш сад самый маленький из всех.
4.Он тратит меньше времени на домашнюю работу, чем я.
5.Она не старше своей двоюродной сестры.
6.Наш телевизор в два раза меньше вашего.
7.Этот текст в два раза труднее, чем тот, который мы только что прочитали.
8.Его телевизор не хуже нашего. Но он занимает в два раза больше места.
9.Эта комната в два раза меньше вашей.
10.Этот чемодан еще тяжелее моего.
11.Этоттекстсамыйинтересныйизвсех,чтомыдосихпорчитали.
12.Этот рассказ такой же длинный, как тот, но не такой интересный.
13.Давид – старший из двух братьев и самый умный.
14.Сегодня не так холодно, как вчера.
15.Из двух платьев это – самое красивое.
16.Мой брат говорит по-французски намного лучше, чем по-ан- глийски.
17.С каждым днем погода ухудшалась.
18.Этот текст еще более трудный, чем тот, который мы переводили на днях.
19.Чем интереснее будет книга, тем быстрее вы ее прочитаете.
20.Сегодня солнце светит гораздо ярче, чем вчера.
21.Я слышал оба доклада. Первый был значительно интереснее второго.
EXERCISE2.Open the brackets using either an adjective or an adverb.
1.Catherine smiled at me (happy, happily).
2.I felt very (ill, badly) myself.
3.I felt (terrible, terribly) when we started.
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4.He sounded (brisk, briskly) and (cheerful, cheerfully).
5.It will sound (strange, strangely).
6.The hay smelled (good, well).
7.I write English (bad, badly).
8.I looked at her (attentive, attentively).
9.But don’t look (sad, sadly), my little girl. It breaks my heart.
10.He was looking at me (intent, intently) and (grave, gravely).
11.The wine tasted (delicious, deliciously) after the cheese and apple.
12.The brandy did not taste (good, well).
13.The pistol felt (heavy, heavily) on the belt.
14.He received the message (mute, mutely).
15.I thought he looked (suspicious, suspiciously).
EXERCISE 3. Read and translate the sentences. Pay attention to the descriptions given in them.
1.Harry looked nothing like the rest of the family. Uncle Vernon was large and neckless, with an enormous black moustache; Aunt Petunia was horse-faced and bony; Dudley was blond, pink and porky. Harry, on the other hand, was small and skinny, with brilliant green eyes and jet-black hair that was always untidy. He wore round glasses, and on his forehead was a thin scar.
2.Mrs. Reynolds was a tall, striking woman in her late forties, with blond hair and a typical pink English complexion. She had a friendly smile and an assertive yet sympathetic way about her.
3.Tonight Samantha wore well-tailored blue jeans, a white cotton shirt, a black gabardine blazer, and highly polished black Oxfords with white socks.
4.I shivered. It was a damp November night and quite cold, typical English winter weather.
5.It was a radiant day, the sky was a high blue and clear, and the sun was brilliant.
6.It was a blustery day. There was a high wind that blew the new green leaves off the trees. It was a chilly morning but the sky was
a cerulean blue filled with puffy white clouds that raced across the great arc of the sky.
(from “Harry Potter” by J.K. Rowling)
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EXERCISE 4.
A. Read the following and say how the same qualities in men and women are often described by adjectives, say whose descriptions are generous, and whose are loaded with negative connotations.
He is ambitious; she is pushy.
He is tough-minded; she is ruthless. He is foresighted; she is calculating. He is firm; she is stubborn.
He is self-respecting; she is egoistical. He is persistent; she is nagging.
B. Write a letter of recommendation to your colleague or a friend. Make use of some of the words given below.
Efficient, diligent, helpful, creative, open-hearted, well-read, cultured, naive, thoughtful, slow, forgetful, choosy, demanding, bossy, cooperative, nosy, provocative, sophisticated, practical, businesslike, professional, well-organized, decisive, flexible, resilient, reliable, broad-minded.
EXERCISE 5. State whether the following adjectives are qualitative or relative. Make up sentences of your own with them.
1.stone, stony 6. silk, silken
2.silver, silvery 7. gold, golden, gilded
3.wax, waxen 8. wool, woolly, woollen
4.snow, snowy 9. wood, wooden
5.sun, sunny 10. brass, brazen
EXERCISE 6. Choose the right word to fill in the blanks.
1.a) The ..........Age is the earliest known period of human history.
b)The ground here had always been .......... .
c)There came .......... silence. (stone, stony)
2.a) He was born with a .......... spoon in his mouth.
b)There is a .......... birch under my window.
c)Meryl was wearing a long .......... dress.
d)From the hall there came the .......... chime of the old clock. (silver, silvery)
3.a) We need some .......... candles.
b)Old Nancy had a .......... complexion. (wax, waxen)
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c) Sue wore a tiny .......... |
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EXERCISE 7. Give degrees of comparison of the following words if possible.
1.angry,brave,bad,convenient,dry,dead,final,good,heavy,narrow, perfect, Persian, right (left), square, important, white, yellow, unique, little
2.absent-minded, easy-going, fine-looking, good-natured, highflown, high-heeled, kind-hearted, much-spoken, narrowminded, old-fashioned, strong-willed, well-bred
EXERCISE 8. Put the adjectives in the correct order.
1.Cycling is a(n) _________ activity. (useful, outdoor, popular)
2.Now I’m reading a __________ novel. (depressing, long, boring)
3.He had a __________ alarm clock. (digital, new, useful)
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4.Haveyouheardofthis__________invention?(Japanese,fantastic, new)
5.This family rents a __________ house. (furnished, large, old)
6.I’ve just bought a(n) __________ table. (beautiful, coffee, glass, oval)
7.Robert’s is the __________ car. (red, Italian, big)
8.Our students are using __________ dictionaries. (English, reliable, new, complete)
9.There was a __________ carpet on the floor. (soft, wonderful, woollen, Persian)
10.Andy gave Rosie a __________ box. (jewellery, velvet, small, square)
11.Stratford is a __________ town. (nice, small, quiet)
12.There are a lot of __________ pans in the shops. (frying, Tefal, non-stick, brand-new, French-made)
EXERCISE 9. Choose the right words to fi ll in the blanks.
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a) When Scott reached the .......... |
Pole, he saw the Norwegian flag |
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a) This novel is based on a .......... |
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b) I think Linda is a .......... |
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a) It was a great, yes, it was a .......... |
change for the country. |
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b)They played their part in the .......... |
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a) He rents a flat in .......... |
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a) This fish is so bony! I find it .......... |
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a) – John is as .......... |
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boy. – Yes, I would say he is |
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8.a) This chronicle gives a .......... presentation of events.
b)The discovery of penicillin was a .......... event. (historic, historical)
9.a) The handwriting was .......... , but I recognized it as Mark’s.
b)Itmaybeagoodnovel,butIfindit...........(unreadable,illegible)
10.a) In our new flat we have an .......... cooker.
b)The Accumulator gave off a sudden .......... discharge. (electric, electrical)
EXERCISE10.Complete the sentences using the comparative or the superlative form of the adjectives given in brackets.
1.– Boris is certainly (clever) than his brother. – Yes, and he is (attractive) than his brother Peter. In fact, he is (smart) boy I’ve ever taught.
2.Nothing could be (extravagant) than buying such an expensive car. You will have to be (careful) with your money in future.
3.Life is getting (hard) and (complicated) with every passing day.
4.It is (effective) method of all, but it is naturally costly.
5.Stephen is (intelligent) than any other boy in his group.
6.It has been (cold) day in Moscow for thirty years.
7.It’s (little) I can do for you, I’m afraid.
8.That was (bad) than he had expected.
9.That was indeed (bad) experience in his career.
10.They naively think that things can only get (good).
11.This is (unbelievable) news I have ever heard.
12.He ate (few) French fries than you did at the picnic.
13.Angela is (little) organized than Mike.
14.Ifyouaskme,Moscowis(beautiful)thananyothercityintheworld.
15.They had (little) and (little) to talk about.
16.It is axiomatic that (great) the student’s individual effort, (much) thorough will be his learning.
17.The (much) original a discovery, the (much) obvious it seems afterwards.
EXERCISE 11. Complete the following comparisons.
1.Barbara is nearly .......... old .......... her stepmother.
2.There are more .......... two thousand books in my mother’s library.
3.Bob talks just .......... his father.
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11. On Sundays we don’t have to get up .......... |
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EXERCISE 12. Read and translate the following colourful and unusual comparisons. Make up sentences with them.
1.as different as chalk and cheese
2.as scarce as hen’s teeth
3.as dark as inside of a wolf
4.as happy as a pumpkin in a sunny patch
5.as ugly as home-made soap
6.as black as two o’clock in the morning
7.as happy as a dog with two tails
8.as nervous as a brick wall
9.as brave as the first man who ate an oyster
10.as cold as an ex-wife’s heart
11.as big as the little end of nothing
12.as noisy as two skeletons dancing on a tin roof
EXERCISE 13. Give degrees of comparison of the following adjectives if possible.
absolute, able, authentic, helpful, empty, effective, left, mild, middle, medical, vacant, round, pregnant, Roman, wooden, immortal,real, late, near, old, far, few, tough, entire
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EXERCISE 14. Complete the given phrases.
1.The sooner, .......... .
2.The longer the day (is), .......... .
3.The more we learn, .......... .
4.The more expensive the wedding, .......... .
5.The later one goes to bed, .......... .
6.The better the idea, .......... .
7.The sunnier the weather, .......... .
8.The more knowledge you get, .......... .
9.The broader your outlook, .......... .
10.The richer your vocabulary, .......... .
11.The less chocolate you eat, .......... .
12.The farther from home, .......... .
13.The more kids you have .......... .
14.The smarter a person is, .......... .
15.The longer we study English .......... .
Вопросы для самопроверки:
Use the right degree of comparison of the adjectives in brackets.
1.He laughs (good), who laughs last.
2.He who laughs last, laughs (long).
3.Of two evils, choose the (little).
4.My aunt is the (old) of the four sisters.
5.Cats are (clean) than monkeys, but monkeys are (intelligent) than cats.
6.He is the (well-known) of that crew.
7.Put your (good) foot forward.
8.He had rarely listened to a (an) (absurd) proposal.
9.The kids had never eaten a sausage that was (big, red, hot).
10.Thank you, you are (kind) today than you were yesterday.
11.Socrates was (wise) Greek of all.
12.Get there first with (much) – that is the fundamental principle of tactics.
13.Which lie seems (good)?
14.Christopher is (friendly) than Ted. 15. Donald is (well-off) than either of his brothers.
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