Adjectives and Adverbs (Solution)

ANSWERS : Adjectives and Adverbs

1. adjective - careful
2. adverb    - heavily
3. adverb    - seriously
4. adverb    - sadly
5. adverb    - reasonably
6. adverb    - surprisingly
7. adverb    - quiet
8. adjective - so serious
9. adjective - fast
10. adjective - hard

Link - Exercise - Adjectives & Adverbs
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Ref. Source: Essential English Grammar - Raymond Murphy

Sentences : Adjectives & Adverbs

Find Adjectives and Adverbs in the following sentences.

1. Tom is a careful driver.
2. It is raining heavily.
3. Why do you never take me seriously.
4. Tom looked at me sadly.
5. It's reasonably cheap.
6. The examination was surprisingly easy.
7. Please be quiet.
8. Why do you always look so seriously.
9. Jack is a very fast runner.
10. Ann is a hard worker.

ANSWERS: Adjectives and Adverbs (Solution)

(Ref: Source: Essential English Grammar -Raymond Murphy)

A / AN - Exercise

     Use A, AN where necessary.

1.               I eat ____________ banana everyday.
2.               I like ___________ bananas.
3.               There's __________ sand in my shoes.
4.               I like  __________ rice.
5.               Ann was listening to  __________ music.
6.               I eat  __________ bowl of rice.
7.               I eat  __________ rice everyday.
8.               I bought __________ paper to read.
9.               There's  __________ hair in my soup.
10.               I don't drink  __________ coffee very often. 

SOLUTION

 Solution to the A /AN Exercise

1.              a      -       I eat  a Banana everyday.
2.              --     -       I like Bananas
3.             --      -      There's sand in my shoes.
4.             --      -       I like rice.
5.             --      -       Ann was listening to music.
6.             a       -       I eat a bowl of rice.
7.             --      -       I eat rice everyday.
8.             a       -       I bought a paper to read.
9.             a       -       There's a hair in my soup.
10.           --      -       I don't drink coffee everyday.

SIMILAR SOUNDING WORDS - Dessert and Desert

HOMONYMS - List of similar sounding words

Example : Dessert (sweet food)and Desert (Land)

Canvas (fabric)                         Canvass (examine)

Capital (city, wealth)                 Capitol (building)

Censor (Prohibit)                      Sensor (measuring devices)

Choose (to select)                     Chose (past tense – choose)

Coarse (rough)                          Course (way, path)

Complement (make complete)   Compliment (praise)

Conscience (moral value)          Conscious (aware)          

Council (Committee)                 Counsel (advice)

Cursor (computer marker)        Curser (swear)

Dairy (milk product)                  Diary (daily book)

Dessert (sweet food)                 Desert (land)

Device ( a mechanism)              Devise (to arrange)

Dissent (disagreement)              Descent (movement downwards)

Dual (having two parts)             Duel (fight between two people)

Dye (colour)                             Die (perish, death)

Elicit (draw forth)                      Illicit (Improper)

Eminent (note worthy)               Imminent (impending)

Ensure (make certain)               Insure (Indemnify)

Everyday (Ordinary)                 Every day (Each day)

Exercise (Activity)                    Exorcise (Drive out)

Fair (just)                                 Fare (food, fee)

Faze (disturb)                           Phase (stage)

Formerly (earlier time)              Formally (awaiting to set pattern)

Forth (forward)                        Fourth (after third)

            Gorilla (ape)                             Guerilla (fighter)

Further Link

LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS

List of Irregular Verbs in English

The following is a partial list of irregular verbs found in English. Each listing consists of the present/root form of the verb, the (simple) past form of the verb, and the past participle form of the verb.

Present	Past	Past Participle
be	was, were	been
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
burst	burst	burst
buy	bought	bought
burst	burst	burst
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
cut	cut	cut
deal	dealt	dealt
do	did	done
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forbid	forbade	forbidden
forget	forgot	forgotten
forgive	forgave	forgiven
freeze	froze	frozen
get	got	gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grow	grew	grown
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden
hold	held	held
hurt	hurt	hurt
keep	kept	kept
know	knew	known
lay	laid	laid
lead	led	led
leave	left	left
let	let	let
lie	lay	lain
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
quit	quit	quit
read	read	read
ride	rode	ridden
run	ran	run
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
seek	sought	sought
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
shake	shook	shaken
shine	shone	shone
sing	sang	sung
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
speak	spoke	spoken
spend	spent	spent
spring	sprang	sprung
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
swim	swam	swum
swing	swung	swung
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tear	tore	torn
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
understand	understood	understood
wake	woke (waked)	woken (waked)
wear	wore	worn
win	won	won
write	wrote	written

 Source: Purdue Online Writing Lab

              List of Irregular Verbs ( Past Simple is not –ed form):

VERB 1.       Begin 2.       Break 3.       Bring 4.       Build 5.       Buy 6.       Catch 7.       Come 8.       Do 9.       Drink 10.   Draw 11.   Drive 12.   Eat 13.   Fall 14.   Find 15.   Fly 16.   Forget 17.   Get 18.   Give 19.   Go 20.   Have 21.   Hear 22.   Hurt 23.   Know 24.   Learn 25.   Leave 26.   Love 27.   Make 28.   Meet 29.   Pay 30.   Put 31.   Read 32.   Ring 33.   Say 34.   Run 35.   Sea 36.   See 37.   Sell 38.   Sit 39.   Sleep 40.   Speak 41.   Steal 42.   Swim 43.   Take 44.   Tell 45.   Think 46.   Throw 47.   Understand 48.   Wakeup 49.   Win 50.   Write

PAST PARTICIPLE Began Broke Brought Built Bought Caught Came Does Drank Drew Drove Ate Fell Found Flown Forgot Got Gave Gone Had Heard Hurt Knew Learnt Left Love Made Met Paid Put Read Rang Said Ran Sea Saw Sold Sat Slept Spoke Stole Swam Took Told Thought Threw Understood Woke-up Won Wrote

NOUN - Sentence Examples

NOUN - EXAMPLE WITH SENTENCES

Countable Nouns:

I stepped in  a puddle
I drank a glass of milk
I saw an apple tree.
I got the new crockery set of seventy pieces.
Fill those buckets with water

NON Count:

I dove into the water
I saw the milk spill
The oil is leaking from the tank.

Count:            Pluralizes with -s
Non Count :   Don't pluralizes with -s

 Count:                 I have some difficulties in finding the job.
                            The talks will take place in the Albert Hall.
                           The city was bright lights and harsh sound.

Non Count:          She succeeded in school with little difficulty.
                            I dislike idle talk.
                            Light travels faster than sound.

SPECIAL CASES:

There are several French wines to choose from.
I prefer Sumatran coffees to Colombian.
We use a variety different  batters in our bakery.

Count Singular:

I ate an Apple.
I rode the bus.
does she live in this house? No, She lives in that house over there.

Count Plural:

I like to feed the birds.
Do you want these books? No, I want those books up there.
Cats are interesting perts.
 
Non Count  :

The water is cold.
This milk is going sour.
Music helps me relax.

Count Singular:
I practice every day.
I'd like one donut, please.


Count Plural:
Can I have some chips?
She has a lot of books, and many are autographed.
I have fewer pencils than you.

Non Count:
Can I have some water?
She has a lot of strength, and much is due to her upbringing.
I have less courage than you.
The board will meet tomorrow to consider your application.
The information you gave to the detective was very misleading.
I thought it was a strange comment to make.
Smoking damages your health.
Jean is studying music at college.
I'll have a coffee please.


RULE:           Non-Count doesn't have a Plural.