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26/11/2006 Presenter: Ngoc Dung – Kim Hoang 2
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Compound adjectiveWarm up
About compound adjective
Practice
Double comparativeWarm up
About double comparative
Practice
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Warm-upPut these following words under appropriate heading:
Exchange, exchangeable Account, accountable, accountant, accountancy Protect, protection, protective, protectivelyMoney, monetary, monetaristFinance, financial, financer, financially, finance
Nouns Verb Adjectives Adverbs
Answer
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Nouns Verb Adjectives AdverbsFinance
Financer
Exchange
Account
Accountant
Accountancy
Protection
Money
Monetarist
Finance
Exchange
Account
Protect
Financial
Exchangeable
Accountable
Protective
Monetary
Financially
Protectively
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Example:
Customer: I’d like to open a high-interest account
Bank teller: How much would you like to deposit?
“high-interest” is a compound adjective
Definition:
A compound adjective is formed when two or more words work together to modify the same noun. These terms should be hyphenated to avoid confusion or ambiguity.
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Example Mary bought a second-hand BMW.
She had a full-time job in a bank, but after the baby was born she changed to a part-time job and just worked in the mornings.
That department store sells expensive high-tech equipment.
We offer good-quality products, and we’ll have many customers.
My parents complained about the poor-quality service of the hotel they stayed last month.
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PracticeComplete these sentences with the words in the box.
1. There has been a housing subsidy program for the families in this area.
2. Most people want to have a diet nowadays.3. This factory produces goods for export.4. Most of the population are , but about 10% are left-handed.5. My brother had a nervous breakdown because he worked in a
job.
6. They have constructed many buildings in that part of the city .
More exercises
high-quality high-rise right-handed
low-income low-fat high-pressure
low-income
low-fathigh-quality
right-handed
high-pressurehigh-rise
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Warm-up Choose appropriate sentences for A, B, C, and D in
order to have a logical chart. Try to guess the meaning.
1. The more experienced you are
2. The more things you want to buy
3. The more money you earn
4. The harder you have to work
5. The more you grow up
Answer: 1-C, 2-E, 3-D, 4-B, 5-A
B
D
A
C
ED
C
B
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Study the following examples:
1. A: How much interest does this saving account earn?
B: It depends. The longer period you put your money in, the more interest you earn.
2. He gets older and older.
3. Jane becomes more and more beautiful.
4. Our lesson are less and less difficult.
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Double comparative with short adjective
Example:
Electronic equipments comes cheaper and cheaper.
She does the work better and better.
Short Adjective + ER and Short Adjective + ER
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Double comparative with short adjective
Example:
He writes more and more interesting fictions so he becomes more and more famous.
Living in a foreign country, she feels more and more lonely.
MORE and MORE + long Adjective
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Double comparative with both short adjective and long adjective
Example:The hotter it is, the more miserable I feel.
The longer hours you work, the more exhausted you’ll be.
The more honest we are in trade, the more customer we have.
The harder you work, the better result you can get.
THE Short adjective + ER …, THE MORE Long adj /adv/ noun…THE MORE Long adj/adv/noun …, THE Short adjective + ER …
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• The harder you try
• The more exercise you do
• The more often we practice speaking English
• The harder my uncle work
• The older my father gets
• The less he wants to travel
• The more fluently we will use it
• The more hope you will have
• The less time he has for his family
• The fitter you are
Practice Match sentences in column A with sentences in column B appropriately. A B
Answer More exercise
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Answer:The harder you try, the more hope you will have.
The more exercise you do, the fitter you are.
The more often we practice speaking English, the more fluently we will speak it
The harder my uncle work, the less time he has for his family.
The older may father gets, the less he wants to travel.
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