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Answer — Exercise 8

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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)

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