2014-11-14 Structure: order of adjectives

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 125-126 exercises 1 and 2
exercise 1
2 Y
3 N - incorrect
4 N - changed meaning
5 N - incorrect (also changed meaning to "small")
6 N - changed meaning
7 Y
8 N - incorrect
9 Y
10 N - incorrect ("great deal" only with noncount)
       (also "a great deal" doesn't mean >50%)
11 N - incorrect
12 N - changed meaning
exercise 2
2 any
3 less
4 some
5 number of
6 a lot of
7 many ("were" -> plural -> count -> "many")
8 few (we basically didn't have problems)
9 little (he has almost no patience)
10 a little

  few /   little - similar to "almost no"="hardly any"
a few / a little - similar to "some"
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exercise 5
- a little progress (we've made some, but...)
- a great deal of work (noncount)
- because few of them (almost none of them)
- rise a little (= some)
- are many loopholes
- very little money (noncount; almost no money)
- we've made little progress ("and" = this is a problem)
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ADJECTIVES
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determiner + adjective(s) + noun(s)
   many		smart	    people
  a few		good	    English teachers

A car that is new and red = a new red car
(age before color)

A phone that is new and small = a small new phone
(size before age)

A ball that is round and new and red = a new round red ball
(age then shape then color)

A vase that is green and Chinese = a green Chinese vase
(color before origin)

A vase that is wooden and Chinese = a Chinese wooden vase
(origin before material)

A vase that is big and beautiful = a beautiful big vase
(opinion before size)

a French red wine ("red wine" is a specific thing)
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Remember the "word" OSASCOM:
Opinion
Size/Strength
Age (and temperature)
Shape
Color
Origin/Level
Material
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a beautiful and interesting woman
an interesting and beautiful woman
a beautiful, interesting woman
an interesting, beautiful woman
(beautiful and interesting are both in the opinion category)

the blue-green sea (mix of green and blue)
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An English learner is a person learning English.
Learner English is the type of English a learner speaks.

  sky blue is the blue color like the sky
a blue sky is the sky when it is blue
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p. 140 exercise 2
2 new silk
3 ugly purple denim (denim is the material of jeans)
4 suitable dress-up (opinion + level)
5 interesting and important / important and interesting
6 good, memorable / memorable good
7 sloppy, unstylish / unstylish, sloppy
8 round blue sapphire
9 oval green emerald
10 excellent tomato-and-cheese
11 fancy dress-up
12 beautiful purple denim
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Homework: p. 141-143, exercises 3 and 4