Comic﹕Counterfeit charger
【明報專訊】Bill's phone is running out of electricity. To his surprise, Eason is helpful and lends him his portable charger.
■English highway-words and collocations
Adjectives end with -ful / -less
You can form the opposite of an adjective ending in -ful by replacing it with -less. Here are some examples:
harmful / harmless
hopeful / hopeless
powerful / powerless
useful / useless
painful / painless
thoughtful / thoughtless
■Quiz
Fill in the blank in each of the following sentence with an adjective or an adverb formed by adding -ful/-less or -fully/-lessly to the word in the bracket.
1. My cousin has told me _______ (count) times how good he is at tennis.
2. He drives really _______ (care). That is why he has never had an accident.
3. The speaker has a _______ (power) voice. He is heard distinctly at the rear of the hall.
4. The vegetables are _______ (taste). I don't want to finish them.
5. Don't believe cigarettes are _______ (harm). They damage your lungs!
■Glossary
portable (adj) 便攜式的
charger (n) 充電器
fully (adv) 完全地
counterfeit (n) 偽造的物件