tailieunhanh - Betty Azar - Basic English Grammar 2e-chapter8

Chapter 8: Nouns, adjectives and pronouns. Basic English Grammar remains a developmental skills text for students of English as a second or foreign language. Serving as both a reference and a workbook, it inaoduces students to the form, meaning, and usage of basic structures in English. It provides ample opportunities for practice through extensive and varied exercises leading to communicative activities. Although it focuses on grammar, it promotes the development of all language skills. . | Tl III 1111111 CHAPTER 8 Nouns Adjectives and Pronouns EXERCISE 1 How are these words usually used as nouns or adjectives Use each word in a sentence. 1. busy - I m too b NOUN usy to go to t. ADJ hi zoo. 7. 8. hand good NOUN NOUN ADJ ADJ 2. computer noun adj - Computers are machines. 9. monkey NOUN ADJ 3. tall NOUN ADJ 10. young NOUN ADJ 4. apartment NOUN ADJ 11. music NOUN ADJ 5. Tom NOUN ADJ 12. expensive NOUN ADJ 6. intelligent NOUN ADJ 13. grammar NOUN ADJ ll WUtl h ub 1 11 1111 111 n I III m 1 11 1 I lli Ilin VlHUijIMUtUH IMMl111J 8-1 MODIFYING NOUNS WITH ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS ADJECTIVE NOUN a I bought an expensive book. Adjectives can modify nouns as in a . See Chart 4-2 for a list of common adjectives. NOUN NOUN b I bought a grammar book NOUN NOUN c He works at a shoe store. d INCORRECT He works at a shoes store. Nouns can modify other nouns. In b grammar is a noun that is used as an adjective to modify another noun book . A noun that is used as an adjective is always in its singular form. In c the store sells shoes but it is called a shoe singular form store. ADJECTIVE NOUN NOUN e I bought an expensive grammar book. f INCORRECT I bought a grammar expensive book. Both an adjective and a noun can modify a noun the adjective comes first the noun second. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on to remove this watermark. 1 N ii j s 325 EXERCISE 2 Find the adjectives and identify the nouns they modify. 1. I drank some hot tea. 2. My grandmother is a wise woman. 3. English is not my native language. 4. The busy waitress poured coffee into the empty cup. 5. A young man carried the heavy suitcase for Fumiko. 6. I sat in an uncomfortable chair at the restaurant. 7. There is international news on the front page of the newspaper. 8. My uncle is a wonderful man. EXERCISE 3 Find the nouns used as adjectives and identify the nouns they modify. 1. We sat at the kitchen tafcle. 2. I bought some new CDs at the music store. 3. We met Jack at the train station. 4. .