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Lecture 6 Adjective Adverb 英语语法术语学习： What an adjective is and what it does An adjective describes the person, thing, etc which a noun refers to. We use adjectives to say what a person, etc is like or seems like. For example, adjectives can give us information about Quality: a beautiful dress a nice day Size: a big car a small coin a tall man Age: a new handbag a young man Temperature: a cool evening a hot day Shape: a round table a square box Colour: blue eyes grey hair a white horse Origin: a Japanese camera a Swiss watch …….. Many adjectives can answer the question “What like?” and, depending on context, can give general or precise information: Whats Tom like (to look at)? Hes dark/short/tall Whats Pam like (as a person)? Shes clever/kind/witty Whats the car like? - Its new/old/red/rusty Whats the car like to drive? -Its difficult/fast/slow What an adverb is and what it does The word adverb (ad-verb) suggests the idea of adding to the meaning of a verb. This is what many adverbs do. They can tell us something about the action in a sentence by modifying a verb, i.e. by telling us how, when, where, etc. something happens or is done: Paganini played the violin beautifully (How did he play?) However, adverbs can also modify: - adjectives: very good, awfully hungry - other adverbs: very soon, awfully quickly - prepositional phrases: Youre entirely in the wrong. - complete sentences: Strangely enough I won first prize. - nouns: The man over there is a doctor. Adverbs can be single words (slowly) or phrases {in the garden) and the term adverbial is often used to describe both types. …… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 第五讲 1.1节 P88，【注】2）关于Adj修饰adj问题，但所举的例子有误： Wide open中wide为adv Dead wrong中的dead为adv Red-hot常带连字符，同义结构为white-hot 1.2 节 P89，3.，1）为常见只作表语的形容词，注意： （1）这类形容词多以a-开头 （2）worth/worthy的区别 Worth worthy 词类 Adj，又有介词特征 Adj 词义 1 worth something having a value in money, etc 【价值多少钱】 Our house is worth about ￡100000. How much is thi