Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6 - Souvenir shop for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at how some nouns from the listening are added to. Then work in pairs and decide if the statements below are true.

Answer

  1. F (It describes a kind of tie – a tie made from silk. The first noun serves an adjectival function here.) 
  2. F (The first noun in a compound noun never becomes plural.) 
  3. T (my wife’s student)
  4. T (Horrible is a strong opinion, bright slightly more factual, but still an opinion, and silk a fact.)
  5. T (a horrible bright silk tie with a picture of the Great Wall)