Qarshi davlat universiteti roman-german filologiyasi fakulteti lingvistika kafedrasi

Lesson plan 18 
Theme: Ways of expressing syntactic relations between parts of sentences: word order, 
Conjunction, Governing, Subordination, Predication. 
(Subordinative Conjunctions) 
Level: Intermediate
Materials: Blackboard, Projector, laptop, different handouts
Aim: To raise the awareness about 
the Course “Practical Grammar” 
Time: 
80 min 
Syntactically adjectives may function both as 1) attributes and 2) predicatives, i.e. parts of the 
predicate. Here are the examples of the attributive use: She returned in the early morning. 
After careful consideration we accepted the offer. Trying to conceal her embarrassment she 
turned away her red face. 
Sometimes adjectives used attributively may occur in postposition, i.e. after the noun they 
describe: This is the only possible answer. — This is the only answer possible. In some cases 
the postpositional use of adjectives is obligatory: I'll do everything possible to help you. 
When used predicatively, adjectives are combined with link-verbs: be, feel, get, grow, look, 
seem, smell, taste, turn. For instance: / was early for work today. When driving he is always 
careful. They feel nervous. He looked happy. Honey tastes sweet. She turned red with embar-
rassment. 
Such adjectives as long, high, wide, deep, etc. find themselves in predicative position together 
with nouns denoting periods of time and units for measuring height, length and so on. For 
example: The garden is 20 metres long and 15 metres wide. The well is 25 metres deep. 
Adjectives with the a- prefix like afire, afloat, agape, ajar, akin, etc. usually function 
predicatively: The house was aflame. The company somehow managed to keep afloat. The 
problem facing him is akin to that of ours. 
Comment upon the morphological structure of the following adjectives: 
Universal, 
satisfactory, 
dishonorable, 
absent-minded, 
affectionate, 
agrochemical, 
conversational, cool, coordinate, double, intoxicated, hard-boiled, mindless, restrained, 
sheepish, stately, sympathetic, three-piece. 
2. Give the opposites of the following adjectives by using the correct negative prefix: 

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Acceptable, adequate, agreeable, attentive, available, compatible, complete, considerable, 
constant, constitutional, credible, direct, discreet, distinct, excusable, fre-quent, grammatical, 
hospitable. 
3. Write down the comparative and superlative degrees of the following adjectives: 
Large, heavy, free, sly, near, able, complete, rude, polite, respectable, far, distant, slim, slender, 
shy, coarse, wide, narrow, high, low, sly, brave.