Past perfect simple How to use it After we had visited our relations in Sydney, we flew back home. We had been to the Great Barrier Reef before we went to Sydney. • The past perfect describes an activity that happened before another activity in the past. • It is usually used in connection with a sentence in the past tense. Past perfect progressive How to use it Darren had been watching TV for two hours when his girlfriend rang. They’d only been surfing for a few minutes when they suddenly saw a shark. • The past perfect progressive describes an activity that was in progress before another activity in the past happened. Adjectives Page 54–55 Use adjectives to describe actions, people or things. They make texts more interesting and more informative. a) Characteristics of adjectives Adjectives How to use them The yellow house in the distance looked empty. • as an attribute to describe a noun The hamburger was huge. • as part of a verb phrase The poor suffer the most in such a situation. • as a noun He runs slowly. • as an adverb of manner (adjective + -ly) The music sounded good. The cake tasted awful. • After verbs such as look, feel, smell, taste, sound, seem, become or get (for German werden) we use an adjective. b) Regular comparisons of adjectives Adjectives are used in three different forms when they are used to compare actions, people or things. Positive Comparative Superlative fast faster the fastest exciting more exciting the most exciting • Words with one syllable: -er/-est • Words with two syllables: a) those ending in -y, -er, -le, -ow: -er/-est b) all others: more/most • Words with three syllables: more/most old – older – the oldest happy – happier – the happiest decent – more decent – the most decent beautiful – more beautiful – the most beautiful c) Irregular comparative and superlative forms of adjectives Positive Comparative Superlative good better the best well (German gesund) better the best bad worse the worst ill worse the worst G 4 157 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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