1
I have many favourites TV shows.
I have many favourite TV shows.
English adjectives do not change form to agree with singular or plural nouns.
2
They lived very happy in the countryside.
They lived very happily in the countryside.
Use an adverb to describe how an action happens. Use an adjective to describe a noun or to describe the subject after a linking verb such as be, seem, look or feel. Compare:
- They lived very happily. (Happily describes how they lived.)
- They had happy lives. (Happy describes their lives.)
- They were very happy. (Happy describes the subject after the linking verb were.)
3
It is difficult learn how to swim well.
It is difficult to learn how to swim well.
In the structure it + be + adjective + verb, we normally use a to-infinitive: ‘It was nice to hear that song again.’ ‘We thought it would be easy to work together.’
4
He is a proud of his sons man.
He is a man proud of his sons.
She bought a suitable for children book.
She bought a book suitable for children.
Adjectives normally come before the nouns they modify. However, an adjective phrase containing additional information or a complement normally comes after the noun: a proud man, but a man proud of his sons; a suitable book, but a book suitable for children.
5
The city was very wonderful.
The city was absolutely wonderful.
Wonderful is an extreme adjective: it expresses a very high degree of a quality. With extreme adjectives, absolutely or really is usually more natural than very. Common pairs include:
- cold → freezing
- hot → boiling
- good → excellent
- bad → awful/terrible
The phrase very wonderful is possible for emphasis, but it is much less usual than absolutely wonderful or really wonderful.
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We have a ten metres swimming pool.
We have a ten-metre swimming pool.
We can use number + measurement noun as a compound adjective before another noun. The measurement noun remains singular.
This construction is common with units of measurement such as metre, mile, foot, pound, kilogram, second, minute, hour and dollar: ‘a 30-minute show’, ‘a two-day journey’, ‘a 50-metre pool’, ‘a ten-million-dollar house’ and ‘a four-core processor’.