Compound adjectives

New English File Advanced Unit 4
Compound Adjectives
Grammar
Vocabulary

1. What do you think? Let's look at the following sentences : I saw a man-eating alligator. I saw a man eating alligator . Similar? Different?

2. Adjectives

3. Explain the adjectives in bold 1 He’s very single-minded . It took him years to learn the violin but he never gave up. 2 Writers have to be thick-skinned . Lots of people criticize their work, but they try not to get upset. 3 He’s very career- orientated . He even reads about law when he’s on holiday. 4 They can be rather stand-offish . At the party they refused to talk to anybody. 5 They are really level-headed . Even when they won all that money they didn’t get too excited.

4. Adjectives Single-minded with your attention fixed on only one thing; determined Thick-skinned not easily upset or offended by what other people say about you Career-orientated mainly concerned with, or directed towards his/her career

5. Adjectives Stand-offish behaving in a formal way that is not friendly because they do not want to get involved with other people Level-headed behaving in a calm and sensible way, even in a difficult situation ; calm What do you notice about these adjectives?

6. Compound adjectives Compound adjectives frequently use a hyphen (-) between the words. Often the second word ends in a participle, usually – ed or – ing . Number/measurement + noun: five-day; half-price Adjective + noun: high-quality; low-price Noun + adjective: user-friendly; worldwide Adjective/adverb+ ed / ing : right-handed; good-looking Verb + preposition/adverb: burnt-out; drive-in Self + verb/adjective/noun: self-employed Unit 98 GrammarLab