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ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS
ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS
A noun is a person, place, or thing. An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
In the sentence “There was an ugly duckling” the adjective “ugly” describes or modifies the noun “duckling.”
Many nouns can be used to modify other nouns, just like adjectives modify nouns. Look at these noun-noun pairs: wine glass, city street, coat closet, book fair, and business meeting.
In the “garden wall” example, even though ‘garden’ is modifying ‘wall’ it is still a noun.
ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS
EXERCISE 1.
Complete the table.
ADJECTIVE NOUN
- 1. perfect perfection
- 2. satisfied
- 3. dangerous
- 4. colour
- 5. dirty
- 6. attractive
- 7. luck
- 8. qualification
- 9. dark
- 10. female
- 11. male
EXERCISE 2.
Choose the correct word for each sentence.
- Danny is so sad because his parakeet is death / dead.
- You can get a copy of your marriage / marital certificate from the Town Hall.
- After the earthquake there was confused / confusion in the streets.
- An aerobics instructor must be a very energetic / energy person.
- He prefers history / historical films rather than action films.
- Genetics / genetic is a fascinating branch of science.
- Bill Gates is a very wealthy / wealth man.
- Yes, you hurt my feelings but you are forgiveness / forgiven.
- I think 10:00 would be the most convenient / convenience time for me.
- Van Gogh was an extremely talent / talented artist.
- There are good possibilities for advanced / advancement in this company.
- In fact, after only 2 years, Marco was given a promotion / promoted.
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