Think and Speak

Exercises in oral and written expression, based on old school textbooks

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© Valerius Geng, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

Words of Praise

Suggest suitable adjectives to describe these nouns when they are at their best.

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© Richard Croft, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Adjectives

Compose your own sentences to bring out the meaning of these adjectives.

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© E Gammie, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Extreme Adjectives

These rather strong adjectives need some careful handling; see if you are up to the task.

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By Ivan Kulikov (1875–1941), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Jigsaw Sentences

Join each group of sentences together to make single sentence, in as many ways as you can.

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© Rufus Sarsaparilla, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Opposites

Suggest words that seem opposite in meaning to the words in this list.

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Verb and Noun

Show that each of these words can be used as a noun and also as a verb.

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