III. Comment upon the structure of the following compound adjectives. grey-green home-sick sorrow-stricken bright-shining
old-fashioned dark-blue sun-lit good-for-nothing
moth-eaten bare-footed day-long forteen-year-old
IV. State the classification features of the adjectives. 1. The approach to the gateway... was deep and muddy. (Moore).
2. The soft southerly breeze held steady. (Moore).
3. It may have been a healthy wind, but its effect on the nerves was evil. (Bennett).
4. The night was cloudy and still very dark. (Aldington).
5. A black mass close behind him stirred with a heavy grunting sound (Galsworthy).
6. He took a pencil and his pale bloodless fingers crept timidly towards those rosy, flashing ones. (Mansfield).
7. A pale, an icy luminous green trembles on the horizon. (Sommerfield).
8. I walked away from the indifferent village, over the rise past the staring amber-eyed goats down through the tall stately trees into the great rich green valley. (Lessing).
9. When he went to bed he kept his thoughts on her, wrapping himself in her fair, cool, sisterly radiance, as in some garment of protection. (Galsworthy).
