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Answer — Exercise 2

10.3·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Workbook

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

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