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Discussion questions and exercise tasks: I. Consider your answers to the following:
1. Mention the groups, into which adjectives are subdivided as a class of lexemes, taking into account their grammatical and semantic characteristics. Provide examples.

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2. 
   What are the peculiarities of the Ukrainian qualitative adjectives? Is there any difference between Ukrainian and English qualitative adjectives?
   
3. 
   Mention the allomorphic groups of adjectives in both contrasted languages.
   
4. 
   What groups are Ukrainian adjectives divided into according to their morphological structure?
   
5. 
   Characterize adjective as a part of speech (think of the number of grammatical categories, typical stem-building elements, combinability, syntactic functions). Do these characteristics differ in the contrasted languages?
   

6. 
   Describe the grammatical categories of adjective as a part of speech. Does their number differ in the contrasted languages?
   
7. 
   Define the category of the degrees of comparison as a grammatical phenomenon. State the basic similarities and differences in its manifestation by two languages.
   
8. 
   What is meant by the "elative meaning" expressed by some forms of adjectives? Is it a peculiar feature of both English and Ukrainian adjectives? Provide examples.
   

II. Find all the adjectives in the following piece of writing. Classify these adjectives being either qualitative or relative (if possible other type); comment on their grammatical characteris­tics.
a) in the English language:
A large number of people sat round a table: young girls in white muslin: older women with untidy hair and harassed expressions: a few men peered shyly and solicitously out of the background. All of the faces were made up of small dots. It was a newspaper photograph of a first communion party taken years ago; a youngish man in a Roman collar sat among the women. You could imagine him petted with small delicacies, preserved for their use in the stifling atmosphere of intimacy and respect. He sat there, plump, with protuberant eyes, bubbling with harmless feminine jokes (fiction writing).
*The material is taken from "Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook" by Susan Conrad, Douglas Biber, Geoffrey Leech, Pearson Education Limited, 2003. - P.51.
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b) in the Ukrainian language: