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adjectives: -ed and -ing A lot of adjectives are made from verbs by adding -ing or -ed: -ing adjectives: The commonest -ing adjectives are: amusingshockingsurprisingfrightening interestingdisappointingexcitingtiring worryingboringterrifyingannoying If you call something interesting you mean it interests you.If you call something frightening you mean it frightens you. I...

We use adjectives to describe nouns. Most adjectives can be used in front of a noun…: They have a beautiful house.We saw a very exciting film last night. or after a link verb like be, look or feel: Their house is beautiful.That film looks interestin...

We use the reciprocal pronouns each other and one another when two or more people do the same thing. Traditionally, each other refers to two people and one another refers to more than two people, but this distinction is disappearing in modern English. Peter and Mary helped one another.= Peter helped Mary and Mary helped Peter. We sent each other Christmas cards.= We...

We use whose to ask questions: Pattern APattern B Whose coat is this?orWhose is this coat? Whose book is that?orWhose is that book? Whose bags are those?orWhose are those bags? ...

possessives: pronouns Can you match these possessive pronouns to the right personal pronouns and possessive adjectives? yours, mine, theirs, ours, hers, his, its SubjectObjectPossessive adjectives Possessive pronouns Ime my Youyou your Hehim his Sheher her Itit its Weus our Theythem their We can use a possessive pronoun instead of a noun phrase: Is...

possessives: adjectives   Can you match these possessive adjectives to the right personal pronouns?its, your, my, their, our, her, his SubjectObjectPossessive Ime  Youyou  Hehim  Sheher  Itit  Weus  Theythem  We use possessive adjectives: • to show something belongs to somebody: That’s our house.My car is very old. • for relations and friends: My mother...

possessives: nouns We use a noun with ’s with a singular noun to show possession: We are having a party at John’s house. Michael drove his friend’s car. We use s’ with a plural noun ending in -s: This is my parents’ house. Those are ladies’ shoes. But we use ’s with other plural nouns: These are men’s shoes. Children’s clothes...