Are you interested/ interesting in football?. The football match was quite exciting/ excited4. She is very bored/ boring with eating the same food everyday9. The bored/ boring man jumped
Trang 1Adjective Exercises
I Choose the right adjective
1 We were all (horrifying/ horrified) when we heard about the disaster
2 It is sometimes (embarrassing/ embarrassed) when you have to ask people for money
3 Are you (interested/ interesting) in football?
4 The football match was quite (exciting/ excited) I enjoyed it
5 It was a really (amazing/ amazed) experience Afterwards everybody was very (shocking/ shocked)
6 The kitchen had not been cleaned for ages I was really (disgusted/ disgusting)
7 I was really (amazed/ amazing) when I was offered the job
8 Do you easily get (embarrassing/ embarrassed)?
9 I want to talk to them They are (interesting/ interested) men
10 She is very (bored/ boring) with eating the same food everyday
11 The (bored/ boring) man jumped up and down
12 Did you meet anyone (interested/ interesting) at the party?
13 I was (disappointing/ disappointed/ excited) with the film I had expected it to be better
14 He works very hard It is not (amusing/ surprising/ interesting) that he is always tired
15 I have got nothing to do I am (bored/ amusing/ confusing)
16 I asked Emily if she wanted to go out with us but she was not (exciting/ interested/ satisfying)
17 It has been raining all day I hate this weather It makes me (tiring/ shocked/ depressed)
18 The teacher’s explanation was (annoyed/ confusing/ interesting) Most of the students did not understand
19 She is very intelligent and she has made (astonished/ astonishing) progress
20 Why do you always look so (boring/ bored)? Is your life really so (boring/ bored)?
21 He is one of the most (boring/ bored) people I have ever met He never stops talking and he never says anything (interesting/ interested)
22 Jane finds her job (bored/ boring/ interesting) She wants to do something different
23 We went for a very long walk It was very (exhausted/ exhausting)
24 I am starting a new job next week I am quite (excited/ exciting) about it
II Put the adjectives in the brackets in the correct position.
1 a new pullover (nice)
2 an enormous umbrella (red/ yellow)
3 a (an) old house (beautiful)
4 black gloves (leather)
5 an American film (old)
6 a long face (thin)
7 big clouds (black)
8 a sunny day (lovely)
9 a wide avenue (long)
10 a metal box (black/ small)
11 a big cat (fat/ black)
12 a little village (old/ lovely)
13 long hair (black/ beautiful)
14 an old painting (interesting/ French)
Trang 2Comparisons of Adjectives and Adverbs
I Rewrite the following sentence using the words given
1 Jane cooks better than her sister does
→ Jane’s sister
2 Tom is the best football player in this team
→ Nobody in this team
3 Nothing is faster than the speed of light
→ The speed of light
4 Jack is younger than he looks
→ Jack isn’t
5 I did not spend as much money as you
→ You
6 Yesterday the temperature was nine degrees Today it is only six degrees
→ It is
7 The journey takes four hours by car and five hours by train
→ It takes
8 Chris and Joe both did badly in the exam Chris got 20% but Joe only got 15%
→ Joe did
9 I expected my friends to arrive at about 4 o’clock In fact, they arrived at 2.30
→ My friends
II Choose the right word in the brackets.
1 I think you behaved very (selfish/ selfishly)
2 Rose is (terrible/ terribly) upset about losing her job
3 His house is (attractive/ attractively) located on a mountain
4 There was a (sudden/ suddenly) change in the weather
5 Everybody at the party was (colorful/ colorfully) dressed
6 Linda likes wearing (colorful/ colorfully) clothes
7 He looked at me (angrily/ angry) when I interrupted him
8 He looked very (tired/ tiredly) after a long working day
9 This soup tastes (good/ well)
10 I did not sleep (good/ well) last night
11 The table has a (smooth/ smoothly) surface
12 The sun is shining (bright/ brightly)
13 We must figure out our income tax returns (accurate /accurately)
14 The plane will arrive (soon/ soonly)
15 They became (sick/ sickly) after eating the contaminated food
16 You look (terrible/ terribly)! Are you all right?
III Use the correct form of the following Adj and Adv.
1 I cannot sing well today My voice is (not, beautiful) usual
2 Hanoi is much (dirty) than in the past
3 I have (little money) than he does
4 There are 12 girls in my class but Ann is (intelligent) girl
5 The noise in Hanoi is far (bad) in Hue
IV Correct the following sentences.
1 Viet is the biggest of the twins Viet-Duc
2 Mary was as old like Jane
3 The more bright students do not always do well in the test
5 He plays tennis more badly than his brother does