(forming adjectives that look very similar to participial
adjectives that are formed from verbs ( like: a home-made
cake ), but forming the adjectives from nouns, instead)
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The stool has three legs. ---> It is a three-legged
stool.
Mary has long hair --> Mary is a long-haired beauty. The soldiers have brown helmets. --> They are brown-helmeted soldiers. |
*only if have is used to indicate
a PART of the whole, NOT POSSESSION of something separate:
!! (We CANNOT say:
Mary has
two cars. --> Mary is a two-carred housewife.
or: Mary has two sons --> Mary is a two-sonned
mother.) !!
A. Can you draw pictures of these?:
| a. a candy-striped pole |
e. a flowered dress
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i. a broad-shouldered hero
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m. a stoop-shouldered woman
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| b. a long-legged animal
| f. a bow-legged cowboy | j. a masked man | n. a pigeon-toed child
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| c. a three-headed monster
| g. a freckle-faced child
| k. a six-sided figure:
| o. a long-handled pan:
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| d. a knock-kneed man
| h. high-heeled shoes |
l. a left-handed tennis player
| p. a 3-fingered glove |
B. Can you guess the meanings of these adjectives?:
| 1. yellow-bellied
2. red-blooded 3. green-eyed 4. wide-eyed 5. baby-faced 6. stone-faced 7. tight-fisted 8. light-footed 9. sure-footed | 10. fair-haired
11. even-handed 12. heavy-handed 13. bull-headed 14. pig-headed 15. broken-hearted 16. cold-hearted 17. hard-hearted 18. kind-hearted | 19. loose-lipped
20. tight-lipped 21. chicken-livered 22. stiff-necked 23. blue-nosed 24. hard-nosed 25. thin-skinned 26. short-tempered 27. smooth-tongued 28. long-winded |
Ann Salzmann
Intensive English Institute
University of Illinois