Page 42 - New Medley 5 Semester 1

Word Wise • Adjective pairs
• Anagrams
• Words with ‘oo’ or ‘u’
More about Adjectives • Homophones
• Making new words from a given word
Some adjectives can be used in pairs.

Examples: from bad to worse (from a bad state to a worse one); in black and white (in print)
1. The patient is going from bad to worse.

2. The Chairman wanted to see the contract in black and white.

A. Use the given pairs of adjectives in sentences of your own.

1. Through thick and thin

2. From first to last

3. High and low

4. Black and blue

5. Slow and steady

We can form abstract nouns from adjectives and verbs.

Adjectives deep beautiful brave dark courageous honest mature poor
Abstract

nouns depth beauty bravery darkness courage honesty maturity poverty

Verbs choose admit live permit see unite obey hate
Abstract choice admission life permission sight unity obedience hatred
nouns

An anagram is a word that is formed by rearranging the letters of another word.

Examples: state → taste; thing → night; save → vase

B. Write anagrams of the given words.

1. study 2. are

3. chin 4. aide

5. beak 6. ruby

7. cans 8. care

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