Practice Tasks

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 529.

II) Order of Adjectives

I) Reading complex formulae

PROBLEM SOLVING

What do the following symbols mean in English?

1. ≡

2. ≠

3. →

4. <

5. >

6. ≤

7. ≥

8. ∞

9. ±

10. =

It is obvious that words appear in sentences/ statements/ utterances in a linear order. However, each language has its own way of ordering the words for communicative purposes, it is, then, very important to understand this. And we have more than one type of adjectives and sometimes a group of adjectives at the same time modify one noun; that is why we have to clarify which type of adjective should go first, and which last. English adjectives have the following normal rule of positioning: size – general description – age – shape – colour – material – origin – purpose – participle - Noun

Example:a small nice old square brown wooden French writing desk

Note:

• In practice, there are no more than five adjectives modifying one noun at the same time.

Rearrange each of the following set of words to make a meaningful sentence. Pay attention to the order of adjectives where there is more than one adjective in the sentence.

1. pollution/ is/ problem/ noise/ a/ environmental/ serious.

2. culture/ the/ some/ of/ environmental/a/ creation myths/ reflect/ circumstances/particular.

3. of/ explain/ creation mythologies/ actual/ processes/ the/ variety/ formation/ the/ by/a/ of/ world.

4. the/ compact/ proposes/ dense/ extremely/ that/ hot/ the/ once/ big bang theory/ was/an/ and/ planet/ universe.

5. solutions/ have/ served/ for/ much/ framework/ theory/ the/ these /as/ of/ current/ on/theoretical/ the/ work/ big bang/ the.

6. about/ consider/ stability/ doubts/ hypotheses/ a/ catastrophic/ such/ of/ rings/ some/led/ to/ scientists/ the/ various.

7. begins/star/life/as/a/cool/relatively/a/large/,/in/nebula/of/mass/gas/a. some.

8.a/as/experienced/is/sensation/color/by/neurophysiological/and/humans/ of/animals/,/process/perception/a/complex.