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Unit 6: Adjectives I. Positions

This document provides information about adjectives including their positions in sentences, common expressions using adjectives, forms of adjectives, and practice with sentence completion and vocabulary matching. It discusses how adjectives are used before nouns or in sentences with verbs like "to be", "get", or "become". It also lists common adjective suffixes like "-able", "-ive", "-ous", and forms like "-ical" and "-ent". The final sections provide examples to complete with the correct adjective and match adjectives with nouns.

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Unit 6: Adjectives I. Positions

This document provides information about adjectives including their positions in sentences, common expressions using adjectives, forms of adjectives, and practice with sentence completion and vocabulary matching. It discusses how adjectives are used before nouns or in sentences with verbs like "to be", "get", or "become". It also lists common adjective suffixes like "-able", "-ive", "-ous", and forms like "-ical" and "-ent". The final sections provide examples to complete with the correct adjective and match adjectives with nouns.

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Unit 6: Adjectives

I. Positions
1. Adj + N
2. Tobe / get/ become / stay/ remain/ look/ feel/ seem + Adj
3. S + make / keep / leave / find + O + Adj
4. Nothing/ anything …….. + Adj
III. Useful adjectives
Confusable adjectives
Considerate Considerable
Successful Successive
Terrible Terrific
Favorite Favorable
Awful Awesome
Common expressions of adjectives in the TOEIC test
Be aware of Be likely to
Be eligible Be ready to
Be able to Be responsible for
Be capable of Be subject to
Forms of adjectives
-able Changeable
-ive Protective
-ous Advantageous
-ic Realistic
-y Wealthy
-ical Historical
-ent Confident
-ant Important
-ful/less Helpful/helpless

Part V: Sentence completion Practice


1. Consumers offer (construct, constructive) advice on our new product lines.
2. (Success, Successful) candidates require excellent communication skills.
3. The service at the automobile repair center is (quick, quickly).
4. The applicants were provided with (specific, specify) guidelines on what to submit.
5. The Pinesville Resort is the (ideal, ideally) place to spend a holiday.
6. Susan is not (surely, sure) if she will accept the position.
7. Please make sure that the invitation is addressed (correctly, correct) before mailing it.
8. The executive director travels (regularly, regular) for business.
9. The election was (close, closely) observed by the media.
10. The travel agency offers (reliant, reliable) service.
More practice
1. Everybody knows that it is a....................market.

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A. Compete   C. competitively
B. Competitive D.competition
2. All the staff members were..............during the workshop.
A. Cooperate   C. cooperative
B. Cooperation D. cooperatively
3. A.............number of people attended the conference.
A. Consider C. considerable
B. Considerate D. consideration
4.Mr. Tanaka is....................of dealing with unexpected problems in the office.
A. Ready C. awesome
B. Responsible D. capable
5.Michael...................to hear that Jane had passed the test
A. Was pleasing C. pleased
B. Was pleased D. pleasing
6.Companies will be..................to receive a lot of grants from the government.
A. Detailed C. responsible
B. Pleased D. previous
7.The......................report shows that Chilean wine’s market share increased this year.
A. Various C. official
B. Legal D. productive
8.Your company should take.....................action to solve the problem.
A. Proper C. competitive
B. Permanent D. complimentary
9.We will discuss who is...................for the position.
A. Afraid C. eligible
B. Aware D. subject
10.The attached file is a list of .......................professors who will speak at the seminar.
A. Distinguish C. distinguishably
B. Distinguished   D. distinguishable
11.The Society for Communication seeks to advance technical support systems and provides
services for the education and.................development of its members
A. Profession C. professor
B. Professional D. profess
12.We will help you find.................and cost-effective solutions to drive your business to a higher
level of success
A. Comprehensive C. comprehensively
B. Comprehension D. comprehend
13.We are sorry that the product you have searched for is no longer...................for sale

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A. Prospective C. displaced
B. Approaching D. available
14.Since supplies are....................you are invited to order this gorgeous laptop model on sale
before it is sold out.
A. speedy C.presentable
B. available D. limited
15.....................merchandise may be exchanged for the same item in compliance with our
exchange policy.
A. Defective C. defects
B. defect D. defected
Vocabulary
I. Match the words in the left column with their corresponding words in the right column.
1. Various a. staff
2. A prominent b. difference
3.  A proper c.  plan
4.  A permanent d.  businessman
5.  A Significant e.  factor
6.  Entire f.  factor
7.  An essential g.  actions
8.  An innovative h.  job

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