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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11.3 - Vocabulary and skills development for the textbook Navigate Elementary A2 - Coursebook with authors Jake Hughes and Katie Wood from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Work with a partner. The words in bold are not real. Identify the part of speech for each word. What helped you decide?
  2. Replace the words in bold in exercise 3a with real words. Compare your answers with a partner.

Answer

a)

  1. flissy: adjective - describes the noun phrase 'part of the city', and comes before the noun
  2. flisser: noun - 'new' is the adjective describing this person/thing
  3. fliss: verb - is an action word, an object pronoun follows this verb, and it is used with the auxiliary verb can
  4. flissed: verb - is an action word, an object pronoun follows the subject We, and has an -ed regular past simple ending
  5. flissly: adverb - describes the action 'my brother's driving', and has a typical -ly ending
  6. unflissy: adjective - describes the noun 'people'

b)

  1. noisy/quiet, expensive/poor, old-fashioned/modern
  2. caretaker/principal/teacher, lift/security system
  3. call/meet/visit/tell/ask
  4. washed/repaired/used/crashed
  5. well/fast/badly/slowly/carefully
  6. unhelpful/untidy/bossy

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