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G Grammar Table of contents G 1 Adjectives and adverbs p. 170 G 2 Tenses p. 171 G 3 Non-finite verb forms p. 173 G 4 Modal auxiliaries p. 176 G 5 The passive voice p. 176 G 6 Direct and indirect speech p. 177 G 7 Relative clauses p. 178 G 8 Conditional sentences p. 179 G 9 Sentences with adverbial clauses p. 180 G 10 Linking sentence parts with gerunds and participles p. 180 Adjectives and adverbs a) Using adjectives and adverbs Adjectives and adverbs can make texts more interesting, more informative and more lively. Adjective or adverb? Undoubtedly, Romeo and Juliet is the best known of Shakespeare’s plays. It starts very dramatically with a fierce fight between some servants of the greatest families in Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues, who are deadly enemies. Later, Romeo, a Montague, meets Juliet, the beautiful daughter of the Capulets, at a ball. They fall in love immediately. In the most famous scene in the play, Romeo waits under Juliet’s balcony and they arrange a secret marriage. They are extremely happy. But this happiness is not to last. • Adjectives describe what someone or something is like. ey can be used attributively (a fierce fight) or predicatively (They are … happy.) • Adverbs describe the way something happens or was done. (They fall in love immediately.) ey can modify verbs (It starts … dramatically.) , adjectives (extremely happy) or other adverbs (very dramatically) . • Adverbs like undoubtedly , obviously , of course , etc. can comment on a whole sentence: Undoubtedly, Romeo and Juliet is … . a) Regular comparative and superlative forms Adjectives: big, bigger, biggest Adverbs: fast, faster, fastest expensive, more expensive, most expensive clearly, more clearly, most clearly b) Irregular comparative and superlative forms good/well: better – best many: more – most bad/badly: worse – worst much: more – most little: less – least Adjectives after certain verbs Some English verbs show what something or someone is like. Use an adjective aer to be , to seem , to feel , to stay , to become and to get and aer to look , to sound , to smell and to taste . Be, seem, feel, stay Rhona was a little shy at first. Everything seemed so strange to her. But soon she felt better. And she stayed calm when they all started speaking Punjabi. Become, get Some bands have become famous in Manchester. I’m getting tired of this kind of music, though. Look, sound, smell, taste The Asian food looked interesting. Some of the names sounded unusual, but it smelled good and tasted great. G1 170 Grammar Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv