A. Look at the underlined words in the following sentences:
Sharmin is a pretty girl.
Our library is big.
Do you have any digital camera?
Note: The words 'pretty', 'big' and 'digital' describe a girl, a library and a camera respectively. These words are called adjectives.
Look at the underlined words in the following text:
Ms Tahmina Anwar is a skilled teacher. She is qualified too. She has a long teaching experience. She has an excellent academic record as well. She is a favourite teacher to her students as she is very caring.
Now say which words these adjectives describe or modify.
B. Now look at the passage below and fill in the gaps with adjectives:
My uncle is a ______ engineer. He works in a ______ company as a _____ engineer. He graduated in _____ engineering from BUET. He also studied abroad for his _____ qualification. Currently he is in charge of a __________ project.
C. You may use words with 'ing' ending as adjectives to describe the effect that something has on your feelings or on the feelings of people in general.
Look at the words in the box below and use some of them as adjectives in your own sentences:
charming amazing boring exciting disappointing encouraging welcoming surprising shocking alarming embarrassing confusing depressing existing living tiring dying |
The past participle forms of verbs that describe our feelings can be used as adjectives too. Look at the words in the box below:
delighted | interested | frustrated | worried | depressed | ||
surprised | tired | amazed | exhausted | satisfied | bored | pleased |
Use 4-5 of these adjectives in your own sentences:
D. Now use appropriate words in the blanks of the following sentences:
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