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     UNIT 19 - The key
     ADJECTIVE ORDER

1 a transparent sherry b blue Japanese evening c maroon rubber d German stainless steel roasting e navy blue plastic magazine

2 a round travelling alarm b huge long green vegetable c big round golden wicker bread d a small oval iron e huge bright flying

3 a an exquisite typical Catalan b lovely huge green c depressing solitary d cheerful tall young e delightful small Andalusian

4

opinion size shape age colour origin material purpose noun

5 a red and yellow1 b intelligent, friendly and noble/noble, intelligent and friendly, etc. c pleasant (and) good-looking tall slim d brown and white Castilian e metal and plastic/plastic and metal TV

6 a rectangular modern cream b pretty long silken c dreadful old pink d tiny new central processing e tired local camera f beautiful vast green g large Greek vegetable h good-looking middle-aged black pop i two-hour traffic jam j dangerous gloomy New York k a brand-new mustard American sports l fantastic (and) delightful/delightful (and) fantastic m pretty and2 elegant/elegant and pretty n horrible lilac toilet o an enourmous round sky-blue p wonderful colourful q an old red and white breakdown r pretty brown and turquoise leather s a long-distance obstacle t magnificent country u dreadful tangerine and lime silk v expensive Catalan w a modern peach ice x an oval blue Chinese dining y cheap black and yellow football z late-night Gothic horror

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1  The order does not really matter here.
2  "Pretty elegant" means "rather/quite elegant".
Author: Miquel Molina i Diez
Pages: 1 and the key

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   Contents

   Introduction

   Notes

1  Negative and interrogative sentences (Page 2 and the key)

2  Short answers (Page 2 and the key)

3  Question tags (Page 2 and the key)

4  Questions and exclamations (Page 2 and the key)

5  So, neither, nor, either (the key)

6  Be, used to, would, be/get/become used to, dare, have, get, become, grow, go, turn, fall and feel (Page 2 and the key)

7  Verb tenses: forms (Page 2 and the key)

8  Irregular verbs

9  Verb tenses: uses (Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5 and the key)

10 Personal pronouns, possessives and reflexive pronouns (Page 2 and the key)

11 The genitive case (the key)

12 Singular and plural nouns (Page 2 and the key)

13 Gender (the key)

14 A, an, some, any, no, not, none, each, every and the; compounds of some, any, no and every (Page 2, Page 3 and the key)

15 Neither, not...either, none, not...any, both and all (the key)

16 A few, few, a lot, lots, a little, little, many, much, no and plenty (the key)

17 Enough, too, so and such (the key)

18 Comparative and superlative sentences (Page 2 and the key)

19 Adjective order (the key)

20 Relative clauses (Page 2 and the key)

21 Do and make (the key)

22 Modal verbs (Page 2, Page 3 and the key)

23 Infinitives, gerunds and present participles (Page 2 and the key)

24 Conditional sentences (Page 2 and the key)

25 Passive sentences (the key)

26 Reported speech (Page 2 and the key)

27 Purpose (the key)

28 Word order (the key)

29 Inversion (the key)

30 Connectors (Page 2 and the key)

31 Prepositions (Page 2, Page 3 and the key)

32 Phrasal verbs (the key)

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