Nationality Adjectives

Country V. Nationality

A common mistake made by English learners is to confuse the nationality adjective with the name of the country a person is from. The rule is as follows:

I'm from + name of country: "I'm from Russia."
I' m + nationality adjective: "I'm Russian."

Are you describing the person or are you talking about the place?

In the following sentences can you choose which alternative you need? Good luck!

Lesson by Caroline.

• 1. Jennifer is originally from ___ she moved to The UK when she was ten.
  
  American
  America
  
  
• 2. I was born in ___.
  
  Spanish.
  Spain
  
  
• 3. We met some really nice ___ girls when we were travelling. They were a lot of fun!
  
  Ireland
  Irish
  
  
• 4. Have you ever been to ___?
  
  Maltese
  Malta
  
  
• 5. My family are ___ so most of the recipes I know have a Latin flavour!
  
  Colombian
  Colombia
  
  
• 6. I think ___ chocolate is the best chocolate in the world.
  
  Switzerland
  Swiss
  
  
• 7. People from ___ have a slightly different accent to people from America
  
  Canada
  Canadian
  
  
• 8. I've fallen in love with a ___ man. He's wonderful.
  
  China
  Chinese
  
  
• 9. When I travel next year, I'm going to go to ___ first.
  
  Australia
  Australian
  
  
• 10. Is it true that ___ men don’t wear underwear under their kilts?
  
  Scotland
  Scottish