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Compound nouns: cave houses, fingerprint, candy-floss, (?) začněte se učit
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Compound nouns: cave houses, fingerprint, candy-floss, film set
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Compound adjectives: long-tail boat (a boat with a long tail), nine-year-old girl (the girl is nine years old), (?) začněte se učit
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Compound adjectives: long-tail boat (a boat with a long tail), nine-year-old girl (the girl is nine years old), five-mile-long, six-lane sea road When the noun part is plural, it becomes singular in a compound.
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Adverb + adjectives combination: refreshing cool breeze, (?) začněte se učit
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Adverb + adjectives combination: refreshing cool breeze, uniquely photogenic city
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Adjectives: delicious slice of home-made apple pie, (?) When several adjectives come before the noun, they need to be in a specific order. začněte se učit
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delicious slice of home-made apple pie, longest wooden bridge Value adjectives (which give your opinion) come first, followed by size, shape, colour, origin and material.
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Prepositional phrases: a camera for filming short video clips, (?) začněte se učit
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Prepositional phrases: a camera for filming short video clips, for a closer look
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Participial clauses: waves crashing against the sea wall, (?) začněte se učit
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Participial clauses: waves crashing against the sea wall, approaching in the distance
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black / strong / small cups of / freshly ground začněte se učit
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I like small cups of freshly ground, strong, black coffee.
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by the river / little / pretty začněte se učit
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He bought the pretty little house by the river.
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with strawberries and fresh cream on top / delicious / dark chocolate /two začněte se učit
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She made two delicious, dark chocolate cakes with strawberries and fresh cream on top.
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which Juan gives him / hugely expensive / Cuban / those / enormous začněte se učit
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He smokes those hugely expensive, enormous Cuban cigars, which Juan gives him.
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ridiculous heavy / massive pile of / all the way up seven flights of stairs začněte se učit
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They carried the massive pile of ridiculous heavy books all the way up seven flights of stairs.
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incredible smelly / hairy / guard / but rather friendly začněte se učit
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It was an incredible smelly, hairy but rather friendly guard dog.
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I went to the shop. It sold shoes. It was advertised on television. začněte se učit
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I went to the shoe shop advertised on television
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The man was old. He was walking with a stick. začněte se učit
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He was an old man walking with a stick.
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We ate the cakes. They were home-made. They were absolutely delicious. We were sitting in the sunshine. začněte se učit
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We ate the absolutely delicious, home-made cakes, sitting in the sunshine.
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They rented a house. It was nice. It was near the airport. It had a swimming pool. začněte se učit
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They rented a nice house with a swimming pool near the airport.
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We went to a restaurant. It was big. It was a pizza restaurant. It was on the outskirts of town. It was run by two Italian brothers. They were called Gino and Rino. začněte se učit
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We went to a big pizza restaurant on the outskirts of town, run by two Italian brothers called Gino and Rino.
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Is the main stress on the first or the second word of a compound noun/ adjective? cave houses, fingerprint, candy-floss, film set, long-tail boat, nine-year-old girl začněte se učit
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The main stress comes on the first word of the compound noun/adjective.
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home-made / a slice of / chocolate / delicious / on top / cherries / with / cake začněte se učit
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A slice of delicious, home-made chocolate cake with cherries on top.
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a / mountain bike / bright red / with fifteen gears / heavy-duty / brand new začněte se učit
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A brand new, bright red, heavy-duty mountain bike with fifteen gears.
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Greek / sea food / it's a / of the best / fresh / restaurant /some / small / in the area /which serves začněte se učit
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It's a small, Greek restaurant, which serves some of the best fresh seafood in the area.
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with / a / soup / traditional / freshly baked / bean / Tuscan / bread začněte se učit
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A traditional, Tuscan bean soup with freshly baked bread.
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a / medieval / castle / ancient / steep / on top of a very / hill / fascinating začněte se učit
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A fascinating, ancient, medieval castle on top of a very steep hill.
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The shop serves custard tarts and good coffee. The shop serves tarts and coffee. začněte se učit
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custard tarts: compound noun; good coffee: adjective + noun
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The shop serves delicious hand-made custard tarts and extraordinarily good strong black espresso coffee. The shop serves tarts and coffee. začněte se učit
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delicious: adjective; hand-made: compound adjective; extraordinarily good: adverb + adjective combination; strong black expresso: adjectives
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The shop serves delicious hand-made custard tarts with a sprinkle of cinnamon on top and tiny cups of extraordinarily good strong black espresso The shop serves tarts and coffee. začněte se učit
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with a sprinkle of cinnamon on top: prepositional phrase; tiny cups of: adjective + noun
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The old pastry shop in central Lisbon serves delicious hand-made custard tarts with a sprinkle of cinnamon on top and tiny cups of extraordinarily good strong black espresso coffee. začněte se učit
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old: adjective; pastry shop: compound noun; in central Lisbon: prepositional phrase
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cups of / Japanese green steaming hot / to keep me awake začněte se učit
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I drink cups of steaming hot Japanese green tea to keep me awake.
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old / farm / on top of the hill začněte se učit
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They bought the old farmhouse on top of the hill.
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top-of-the-range / laptop / brand-new / with all the latest graphic technology začněte se učit
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I bought a brand-new top-of-the-range laptop computer with all the latest graphic technology.
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in the rain / five-mile-long / cross-country začněte se učit
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She went for a five-mile-long cross-country run in the rain.
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