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30 / P ART ONE: THE B AS ICS

◆ Adjectives describe nouns and add colour to your
writing.
◆ They can be used singly or in a list.

◆ They can precede the noun or be placed after the verb,
‘to be’.

◆ Present and past participles can be used as adjectives.

◆ Adverbs modify or help verbs, adjectives or other
adverbs.

◆ When modifying a verb, they usually end in ‘. . . ly’.
◆ Prepositions ‘govern’ nouns or pronouns.

PRACTISING WHAT YOU’VE LEARNT
1. Correct the following sentences:
(a) The Government are preparing to discuss the new
divorce Bill.
(b) That class are very noisy today.
(c) Everyone had done their work.
(d) The crowd were enthusiastic.

2. Add appropriate conjunctions or relative pronouns to the
following passage and set it out in paragraphs.

. . . it was so cold, Judith decided to play tennis at the
club. Then she discovered ...her tennisracquet,...was
very old, had a broken string. . . . there was no time to
have it mended, she knew she would not be able to play
. . . she angrily threw the racquet across the room. It
knocked over a china figurine . . . broke in half. She