Ετικέτα: adjectives

What Is Your Pet Saying?

Can you interprete your pet’s body language? Test your knowledge with two cute posters designed by artist and animator Lili Chin of doggiedrawings.net, which you can download for free here together with other interesting posters. Can you describe when your pet shows such behaviour? Do you have similar feelings? When do you feel…

Historic Or Historical?

A few times these past days I was asked about the difference between the words “historic” and “historical”. Although these adjectives are close in meaning, their usage is different. In a few words, every past event is historical, but what stands out is historic: “historic”  very important, very influential in…

Compound Adjectives Feed

  A right-looking rabbit or a left-looking duck? Compound adjectives are a creative part of the English language and help us condense meaning and make clear, beautiful descriptions. There is theory and practice below. Read more

Feelings List

  It is often needed to describe emotional states, that is how one feels, either in descriptive essays or in every day communication. Here’s a helpful list of adjectives that describe feelings Read more

O-SI-SH-A-CO-O-M-P English Adjective Order

In English, we don’t usually place many adjectives before a noun. Two or three adjectives before a noun sounds normal but if we need to use more to describe a noun, we put an extra part (usually a relative clause).  Example: Our new English teacher is funny and interesting. Every day our neighbour walks his two black dogs…

Adjective Order Exercises

There are exercises to practice placing adjectives before a noun correctly further down this page. If you wish to play a jigsaw game on correct adjective order, click on the following picture  Read more