Exercise 14 Find the headword of the word combinations and translate them.

Bathroom door, winter jacket, evening school, school evening, lunch basket, oil output, the shoe factory, the lake shore, world disarmament conference, railway duty train dispatcher, railway track maintenance, information control systems, flight control equipment, traffic flow density, school bus service, the research program result, the traffic speed increase, the New York region newspaper ad, the temperature limit determination, the railway bridge reconstruction, the household goods sale, the London underground extension project, the household goods store, the steam engine invention, the energy accumulation process, the wheel invention, the modern house ventilation facilities, the deep sea current measuring device, the car speed calculation, the high quality concrete.

Послідовність означальних слів

Примітка1. Означення, які показують відношення, ставляться перед усіма іншими (lovely, pure, absolute, perfect, wonderful, silly etc.).

It was a pleasant warm autumn evening.

We were sitting at a lovely round glass table.

Примітка 2. Числівникиставляться перед усіма іншими означеннями: six large apples, the second big house. Порядкові числівники, next та last ставляться перед кількісними числівниками:

the first three days (notthe three first days);

my last two jobs.

Exercise 15 Put the adjectives in order.

1. adventure / exciting / action-packed / book; 2. sweet / Italian / fresh fruit / dessert; 3. delicious / cheese / fresh / sandwich; 4. Australian / thin / rugby / tall / player; 5. fanatical / old / Liverpool / supporter; 6. old-fashioned / lonely / marble / French / fireplace; 7. pair of / grey / old / woollen / football / socks; 8. talented / jazz / black / musician; 9. colourful / cinema / huge / poster; 10. old / well-designed / flower / English / garden.

Exercise 16 Put the adjectives in brackets in an order that sounds natural to you.

1. He gave us some bread. (brown, delicious, homemade) 2. A lady suddenly arrived. (little, old, funny) 3. I bought a shirt. (silk, striped, blue and white) 4. He was smoking a cigar. (fat, revolting, Havana) 5. I’ve got a racket. (new, tennis, great, metal) 6. She was wearing a dress. (summer, plain, cotton) 7. Thieves stole a painting. (French, priceless, Impressionist) 8. He showed me into his room. (airy, living, high-ceilinged) 9. He introduced me to his daughter. (ten-year-old, little, pretty) 10. I’ve just met a student. (young, chemistry, very interesting)