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Q Mixed structures. These sentences are all wrong. Can you correct the mistakes?
► She was wearing a red beautiful coat. . . ? . ...................................

1 There are films interestings on TV tonight.......................................................................

2 There's a good and cheap restaurant in Dover St............................................................
3 He's tall, dark, good-looking...........................................................................................
4 I am very interesting in the lessons.................................................................................
5 I like very much this music..............................................................................................
6 'Emma's got appendicitis.''The poor!' ..........................................................................
7 I'm terrible sorry! .........................................................................................................

8 I lost yesterday my glasses..............................................................................................
9 She smiled happy when I walked in................................................................................
10 I often have thought of changing my job.......................................................................
11 There were some difficults questions in the test.............................................................
12 The boss always talks to us friendly.................................................................................
13 My mother speaks very well Arabic.................................................................................
14 You look beautifully in that dress....................................................................................
15 You're walking too fastly for me......................................................................................
16 Please drive careful.........................................................................................................

17 The manager welcomed us in perfectly English..............................................................
18 John always is ready to help people................................................................................
19 We speak usually Spanish together.................................................................................
20 I worked hardly, but I failed the exam.............................................................................

^ Grammar in a text. Put in adjectives or adverbs from the box.

daily early/ fast friendly hard hardly late lonely silly

I don't like getting up so I usually stay in bed too long, and then have to eat breakfast very

i ........................and run for my train. On the train I read the 2........................ paper, because after I get
to work there's no more time for reading. The boss is nice, but she makes us work very 3........................
and I often have to stay 4.......................to finish everything. There's a nice new secretary in the office.
I 5....................... know her, but she always gives me a 6........................smile when I arrive. She hasn't lived
here long. Perhaps it's a 7...................... idea, but I wonder if she's 8..........................I think I'll ask her out.

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: nouns and adjectives. Find the answers. Use a dictionary to help
you. Different answers are possible.

abed alight apples children coffee hair holidays milk skin w ater/ water

► It can be cold, warm or hot, water.......... 5 It can be hard or soft.........
1 It can be strong or weak. ................ 7 It can be rough or smooth.

2 It can be deep or shallow. ..................... 8 It can be fresh or sour. ....
3 They can be long or short. ................... 9 They can be sweet or sour.
4 It can be dark or fair. ..... ............ 10 They can be quiet or noisy.

5 It can be bright or dim. ..

^ Internet exercise. Use a search engine (e.g. Google) to find some simple sentences with hard

and some with hardly. Write three of each.

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