Adjectives, Adverbs & Question Tags
Chapter in 30 Seconds
Elevate your descriptive language and conversational flow by mastering nuances in adjectives, adverbs, and tag questions.
- Distinguish between internal feelings and external descriptions.
- Use intensifiers to emphasize your opinions.
- Integrate compound descriptors and question tags into natural conversation.
What You'll Learn
Master -ed/-ing adjectives, so/such, compound adjectives with numbers, and question tags to sound natural in English.
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-Ed and -Ing Adjectives: Bored or Boring? Interested or Interesting?-Ed adjectives describe how a person FEELS. -Ing adjectives describe what causes that feeling.
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So, Such, Such a, So Much, So Many: IntensifiersSo goes before adjectives and adverbs. Such (a) goes before nouns or adjective + noun. So much/many are used with quantities.
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Compound Adjectives with Numbers: A Two-Day Trip, A Five-Star HotelCompound adjectives with numbers use a hyphen and the noun stays SINGULAR: a two-day trip (not two-days), a five-star hotel, a ten-minute walk.
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Question Tags: Aren't You? Don't You? Isn't It?Question tags are short questions added to the end of a statement to check information or seek agreement. A positive statement takes a negative tag; a negative statement takes a positive tag.
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Position of Adverbs and Adverb PhrasesAdverbs have three main positions: front (start), mid (before main verb or after auxiliary), and end (after verb/object). The type of adverb usually determines its position.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
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By the end you will be able to: Use -ed/-ing adjectives to correctly describe emotions and situations.
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By the end you will be able to: Construct natural-sounding tag questions to confirm information.
Tips & Tricks (4)
The Person Test
The Noun Test
The Hyphen Rule
Listen for the intonation
Key Vocabulary (5)
Real-World Preview
Planning a Vacation
Review Summary
- -ed = feeling; -ing = source
- So + adj; Such + (a/an) + noun
- Number + hyphen + singular noun
- Statement, + auxiliary + pronoun?
- Subject + adverb + verb
Common Mistakes
Saying 'I am boring' means you are a dull person. Use 'bored' to describe your feeling.
Compound adjectives with numbers must use the singular form of the noun.
Tag questions require the auxiliary verb (do/does/is/are) to match the main verb tense.
Rules in This Chapter (5)
Next Steps
You have done a fantastic job today. Keep practicing these structures and you will sound native in no time!
Write a diary entry using 3 tag questions.
Quick Practice (10)
Which is correct?
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Compound Adjectives with Numbers: A Two-Day Trip, A Five-Star Hotel
You are tired, ___?
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Question Tags: Aren't You? Don't You? Isn't It?
The news was ___.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: -Ed and -Ing Adjectives: Bored or Boring? Interested or Interesting?
It was ___ a nice day.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: So, Such, Such a, So Much, So Many: Intensifiers
I am so ___ (bore) with this movie.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: -Ed and -Ing Adjectives: Bored or Boring? Interested or Interesting?
I have so ___ friends.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: So, Such, Such a, So Much, So Many: Intensifiers
Find and fix the mistake:
I have so many homework.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: So, Such, Such a, So Much, So Many: Intensifiers
I was ___ by the results.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: -Ed and -Ing Adjectives: Bored or Boring? Interested or Interesting?
Which is correct?
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Position of Adverbs and Adverb Phrases
Find and fix the mistake:
They went home, went they?
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Question Tags: Aren't You? Don't You? Isn't It?
Score: /10
