Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired - B2 03/02/2020 09:23

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Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired - B2

Why is this important? Take-aways

Do you ever find yourself wanting to be more Today you will learn:
descriptive about things? How about wanting to
- To use the phrases 'A nice new house' and 'You
comment on how you think someone feels? look tired'.
If you do, do you know how to do these things? - You'll learn when and how to use and not use
This is where this flashcard will come in handy! them.

- The mistakes to avoid

- …and some interesting trivia!

Examples & Explanations

A nice new house

=> the sentence is about a house

=> the house is new => this is a fact

=> the house is nice => this is an opinion

=> We always have opinion adjectives before fact adjectives

=> Here are some more examples:

A kind old man

A beautiful young woman
'Kind' and 'beautiful' are opinions – what I think. Other people may think differently.

'Old' and 'young' are facts – what everyone thinks.

You look tired.

=> We use 'you look' to give our opinion on how we think someone feels.

=> We might say this sentence if someone has dark circles under their eyes!
=> Here are more examples where we can use 'You look':
You look happy.
You look sad.

You look angry.

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Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired - B2 03/02/2020 09:23

You look cold.

=> All of the 'you look' sentences mean 'I think you are.
=> We cannot use them with facts:

You look tall does not make sense. It would be You are tall.

Look out!

LOOK OUT!
=> A nice new house:
Remember word order. We cannot say A new nice house.
You look tired: 'look' must agree with the pronoun.

=> You look tired / He looks tired / They looked tired / She looks tired.

Don't forget!

=> A nice new house => article (a/an), opinion (what you think), fact (what everyone agrees on), noun.
=> You look tired => pronoun, look/looks, adjective.

Did you know?

The record for staying awake goes to a high school student who, in 1964, stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes. I bet
he looked tired!
I imagine he had a lovely long sleep afterwards too!

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