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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.3 for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Frances Eales, Steve Oakes and Louis Harrison from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Write the noun and verb forms of each adjective.
  2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of words from Exercise 2A.

Answer

a)

  1. length, lengthen
  2. shortness, shorten
  3. narrowness, narrow
  4. width, widen
  5. breadth, broaden
  6. thickness, thicken
  7. depth, deepen
  8. height, heighten / raise*
  9. largeness, enlarge

*When we make something higher we usually raise it. When feelings or effects become stronger, they are heightened.

b)

  1. narrow
  2. broaden
  3. deepened
  4. thickness; thicken
  5. width; widen
  6. length
  7. lengthen
  8. enlarge
  9. high; height
  10. shortened