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Exercises: Be more descriptive to add zing to your language

Replace the word ‘nice’ in the following paragraph with suitable

adjectives of description. Write your answers above each occurrence of

‘nice’.

“What a nice holiday you must have had!” said Sue. “Oh yes,” said Roy,

“I had a nice time wandering in the shopping areas of Honk Kong. They

do have very nice little shops there with nice wares for sale. The people

there were also very nice. They speak nicely to you all the time. Not

many people would be so nice to tourists, especially when tourists are

clearly not interested in buying anything. The weather was also very

nice. It was not as hot as Singapore. I liked the change in climate. It was

a nice change. But what I like best of all was the food. It was very nice.”

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Wonderful/ splendid

great

cute interesting

friendly

politely

pleasant

welcome tasty

great

courteously

Answers

“What a nice holiday you must have had!” said Sue. “Oh yes,” said Roy,

“I had a nice time wandering in the shopping areas of Honk Kong. They

do have very nice little shops there with nice wares for sale. The people

there were also very nice. They speak nicely to you all the time. Not

many people speak so nicely to tourists, especially when tourists are

clearly not interested in buying anything. The weather was also very

nice. It was not as hot as Singapore. I liked the change in climate. It was

a nice change. But what I liked best was the food. It was very nice.”