Adjectives / Some theory

1) Suffixes

Look up in your dictionaries the meaning of the following suffixes and write an example for each of them. It has to be a NEW Word for you…MIND YOU!!

Morpheme Meaning Example-able-ate-an-ant-ful-ist-ive-like-ory-ous-some-wise-y

2) Past Participle Form

3) Multiword Adjective

3.1 Adverb + PP

3.2 Noun + PP

3.3 PP + Adverbial Particle

4) Gradable vs. Ungradable adjectives

5) Order: OSSHACOM (U)

6) Defaut Position: Before a noun

Exceptions After Object Complement

Ellipsis

Adjectives / Activities

1) The passage which follows is from a novel. It describes London in the 1930s from the point ofview of someone who has just arrived in Britain, in winter, from India. Read the passage and then answer the questions:

She hated London - hated it at the very first sight of the foggy streets filled with drab crowds hurrying home, the shop windows glowing feebly in the misty twilight, the huge bus es reduced to dim red rumbling shapes that seemed to appear from nowhere out of the smoke and fog. She particularly hated this dingy, dark, ugly room, with its broken-down furniture and the hissing gas heater in the fireplace that went out if you forgot to keep enough shillings to feed into the coin slot. She thought about struggling into a heavy skirt and cardigan and pulling on a pair of thick stockings: she hated the feel of wool against her skin. Her wool gloves, which she disliked even more, were suspended from a wire in front of the pale-blue llames of the gas heater, drying from another hopeless morning of job hunting and giving off an odour which Queenie found loathsome. Everything in England seemed to smell of damp wool, as if the entire population consisted of wet sheep.

a Identify all the adjectives in this passage. b Imagine this passage without the adjectives. How much difference would c. this make to the description ? What kind of difference? e Which of these adjectives are also participles? d Which of these adjectives are derived fram nouns? e Which of these adjectives are derived fram verbs? f Which of these adjectives are multiword forms? g What does loathsome in the last sentence but one refer to? Account for its

position in the sentence. h Identify any prefixes or suffixes which are characteristic of adjectives.

2) The following was written by a leamer. Identify and explain any mistakes in the form and use of adjectives.