How’s My Driving?

Grammar

AdverbsAn Adverb tells us in what way something is done. Many

adverbs are formed from an adjective+ -ly:

Adjective: bad careful dangerous heavy quick quiet safe slowAdverb: badly carefully dangerously heavily quickly quietly safely slowly

Do you drive fast? No, I drive slowly and carefully.

Note The adverbs hard, fast, and well are exceptions to

the –ly rule.

Language in Context

Change the following adjectives to adverbs, and use them in theappropriate sentence: heavy,powerful,soft,reckless,wonderful.

1.George is a bad driver. He drives _____________.2.Mary is a great cook. She cooks______________.3.The hurricane’s winds blew ______________ and they destroyed

houses.4.We couldn’t go out of the house because it was raining________.5.They spoke________ because they didn’t want to wake up their

parents.

recklesslywonderfully

powerfully

heavilysoftly

Phrases with –ingUse phrases with –ing to describe people and say what theywere doing at particular time or to give additional informationabout something.

Do you know the girl talking to Peter? (= who is talking to Peter)

The road leading up the mountain is dangerous. (=that leads to the mountains)

Grammar

Phrases with Past ParticiplesPhrases with past participles have a passive meaning.

All the people invited to the party wore costumes. (=who were invited to the party)

The money stolen in the robbery was found by the police.(=that was stolen in the robbery)

Grammar

Complete the sentences using the verbs in the correct from: -ing or past participle

1. The man________(injure) in the accident was taken to hospital.

2. A bus__________(carry) fifty people was involved in the accident.

3. The woman__________(drive) behind us was very impatient.4. The window__________(break) in the hailstorm has been

repaired.5. Who was the woman _________ (sing) during the wedding

ceremony?

injured

carrying

drivingbroken

singing

Relative ClausesThe car that was in the accident was a total wreck.

(Relative pronoun as subject of clause)The car that I bought cost a lot of money.

(Relative pronoun as object of clause- that is the object of the verb bought)

In clauses with that as an object, that can be omitted: The car (that) I met was from Australia.

Grammar

Note

Combine the sentences. Use relative clauses.1.My sister is going to marry a singer. She met him in Ireland.__________________________________________________.2.We had a dance in the last year of high school. Over two hundred people attended it.__________________________________________________________________________________________________.3.John bought a new jacket. It's too big for him._________________________________________________.4.We saw the new movie. Everyone is recommending it._________________________________________________.5. I went to visit a friend. I hadn’t seen her in years._________________________________________________.

My sister is going to marry a singer ,who she met in Ireland

We had a dance in the last year of high school ,which over two hundred people attended

John bought a new jacket which is too big for him

We saw the new ,which everyone recommending

I went to visit a friend ,who I hadn't seen in years

Ashley: I don’t like driving very much.Tim: I don’t either. I prefer to go to work by subway every day.Ashley: I get so annoyed in traffic, especially when the driver

who is in front of me is talking on a cell phone and is driving slowly. That makes me mad.

Tim: Drivers who are rude or impatient really me, and I get mad when drivers don’t follow the rules. Some drivers get impatient when the light turns green and the car in

front of them does not go immediately. They start to honk their horns. That irritates me!

Ashley: What about pedestrians at intersections? Instead of crossing the street quickly, they walk leisurely as if they had all the time in the world.

Conversation

Tim: What annoys me the most in traffic is when there’s someone who is tailgating you know, when someone is driving right up to your back bumper. I feel like slamming on the brakes and letting them crash into the rear of my car.

Ashley: I get out of the way as fast as I can. I avoid eye contract and I ignore any provocation.

Tim: I think you’re got the right idea. You know what I think? Some people go out in their cars just to see how they can I annoy other drivers.

Ashley: I agree. They probably get a kick out of it.

The car I normally drive is a Porsche.I’m in no hurry. I’m on my way to

work.If everything is coming your way,

Then you’re in the wrong lane.Baby On Board.

Your woke me.I may be driving slowly, but I’m ahead

of you.Keep your distance.

Good carried in this car are highly explosive.

If you can read this,

you’re too close.The car that you’re following

is lost.I drive like this to make you mad?

You’re the one following me.

honking

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