2014-10-06 Structure: compound modifiers

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Homework: handout p. 193 (all)
96.1
2 an unusual gold ring
3 a nice new sweater
4 a new green sweater
5 a beautiful old house
6 black leather gloves
7 an old American movie
8 a long thin face
9 big black clouds
10 a lovely sunny day (weather is like temperature)
11 an ugly yellow dress
12 a long, wide avenue
13 a little old red car
14 a small black metal box
15 a big fat black cat
16 a charming little old country inn
17 beautiful long black hair
18 an interesting old Japanese painting
19 an enormous red and yellow umbrella
an interesting, funny movie
a funny, interesting movie
an interesting and funny movie
a funny and interesting movie
("interesting" and "funny" are both opinions)
a red and yellow umbrella (it's two different colors, one part red one part yellow)
a yellow and red umbrella
* a red, yellow umbrella (WRONG)
* a yellow, red umbrella (WRONG)
the beautiful blue-green water (it's a single color, a mix of blue and green)
96.2
2 tastes awful
3 feel fine
4 smell nice
5 look wet
6 sounds interesting
be, get, become, taste, feel, smell, look, sound, seem
96.3
2 happy
3 happily
4 violent
5 terrible
6 well
7 good
8 slow
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He usually drives very slowly.
   frequency     focus adverbs
   certainty            of
   sentence             manner
    adverbs

frequency/certainty/sentence adverbs go before the main verb, after the first helping verb
"very" is a focus adverb, which goes before the adjective or adverb it modifies
adverbs of manner generally go after the main verb they modify

(He is a slow driver.)
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p. 141 exercise 3
2 a one-paragraph / a one-paragraph-long
3 a 300-page / a 300-page-long
4 a six-year / a six-year-long
5 a stress-related
6 an eyesight-related
7 a 10-gallon
8 performance-induced
9 a two-month / a two-month-long

modifiers are not plural:
tall people, not talls people
shoebox, not shoesbox
toothbrush, not teethbrush
bus station, not buses station
five-year-old child, not five-years-old child

height and age - you must include the adjective:
a five-foot-tall boy
a 30-year-old man

weight - don't include the adjective:
a 200-pound man, a five-pound bag of rice

a one-thousand-two-hundred-forty-three-pound animal
a 1243-pound animal

one-digit numbers: write as words (one, six, nine)
longer numbers: write as numerals (30, 45, 2096)
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stress-related problem = a problem that is related to stress (passive)
award-winning movie = a movie that has won awards (active)

an all-knowing god = the god knows everything (active)
a well-known actor = the actor is known by many people (passive)

a boring movie = the movie bores audiences (active)
a bored student = the student is bored by the class (passive)

long-haired, one-armed, three-legged, cold-hearted, ...
("hair" is not a verb, but we can use "[something]-haired" as a modifier)

five dollar bills (five bills of $1 each)
five-dollar bills (some number of $5 bills)