UNIT 1 – MODULE 11 – THAT’S ENGLISH! HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY? A) GRAMMAR - ED/ING ADJECTIVES: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/worldservice/learningenglish/grammarchallenge/ pdfs/3_eding_practice.pdf http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/adjective_adverb/ad018-adjectiveor-adverb-er-ing.htm http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2255 http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/ed-and-ing-adjective-endings http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english1752.php -
GRADABLE AND NON-GRADABLE ADJECTIVES:
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/gradable-and-ungradableadjectives.html http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/gradable-or-ungradable.html -
MODIFIERS :
• 1 ABSOLUTELY 2 COMPLETELY and 3 UTTERLY only modify nongradable adjectives. • 4 SLIGHTLY , 5 A LITTLE BIT , 6 RATHER, 7 DEEPLY and 8 VERY only modify gradable adjectives. • 9 REALLY and 10 PRETTY modify both.
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a Impersonal it : used when there is no real subject: “It’s snowing.” b Empty it : used when the structure requires an object but there isn’t one: “I don’t like it when people argue over silly things.” c Anticipatory it : used when the subject or object is very long: