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Order of Adjectives • In English, it is common to use more than one adjective to describe a noun. These adjectives must be used in the proper order.

Example: Here is a beautiful, red, cloth flag. Why does beautiful come before red? Why does red come before cloth? • Understanding the proper order of adjectives takes practice. Use the following table to practice using the proper order of adjectives in the following sentences. Number

Opinion

Size small

A / AN

SOME A LOT OF

four

INTELLIGE NT UGLY

TALL

generous

LONG

PRETTY

HUGE

Age

Shape round

YOUN G ANCIE NT

Color

Origin German

Material

red

Purpose

Noun

sleeping

old

man metal

RECEN T

Directions: Choose the correct order of adjectives in the following sentences. 1) The woman is wearing a ________ dress. A) yellow long B) long yellow 2) He is a ________ man. A) tall thin B) thin tall 3) The company makes ________ products. A) excellent farming B) farming excellent 4) James recently departed on a ________ trip. A) camping long B) long camping 5) I love eating ________ strawberries. A) red big B) big red

6) The ________ woman did well on the test. A) intelligent young B) young intelligent 7) The ticket costs ________ dollars. A) ten US B) US ten 8) The scientists have found a ________ cure for the disease. A) new great B) great new

12) Their dog is a ________ shepherd. 9) I am going to wear my ________ tie to the wedding. A) big cotton blue B) blue big cotton C) big blue cotton

A) brown big German B) big brown German C) German big brown 13) I am drinking from a ________ cup.

10) Please recycle those ________ bottles. A) three water empty B) three empty water C) water empty three 11) She packed her clothes in a ________ box. A) green flimsy cardboard B) flimsy green cardboard C) cardboard flimsy green

A) small English tea B) tea small English C) English small tea 14) My ________ teacher talks for hours! A) philosophy old boring B) old philosophy boring C) boring philosophy old D) boring old philosophy

Directions: Now write two of your own sentences using more than one adjective to describe a noun. 1) ____________________________________________________________________________ 2) ____________________________________________________________________________

Position and order of adverbs and adjectives 1

Tick (✔) the correct sentence. 1

a

Life developed on land quickly in the last

million years. b Life developed quickly on land in the last million years. 2

a

Strange green creatures have recently been found on the

moon. b

Green strange creatures have recently been

found on the moon. 3

a

It’s a fast new American

aeroplane. b

It’s a new

fast American aeroplane. 4

a

It’s a beautiful

yellow small fish. b It’s a beautiful small yellow fish. 5

a

Dinosaurs disappeared suddenly from Earth around 65 million

years ago. b

Dinosaurs disappeared from Earth suddenly around 65

million years ago. 6

a

Our submersible was a grey big

round thing. b Our submersible was a big round grey thing. 2

Complete the sentences with the adjectives in brackets. 1

3

,

2

The fish was an , cartoon. (orange, round, enormous) It was an extremely ,

3

I had never seen such an

,

4

It was discovered by an

5

The car was a silver)

,

thing that looked like something out of a ,

, ,

boat. (British, grey, old, ugly) animal. (amazing, colourful, small)

,

,

explorer. (French, young, unknown)

,

,

model. (comfortable, German, new,

Are these sentences grammatically correct (✔) or incorrect (✘)? Write correct sentences. 1

Humans appeared suddenly in Africa about two million years ago.

2

It’s a square, huge, grey machine.

3

I’ve just seen a fantastic, tiny, blue fish.

4 5

She has a Spanish, lovely, old map. The Earth rotates at the Equator most quickly.

1.

We wanted

2.

They bought

3.

She went home and sat on

(grey / a / metal) table. (red / a / new) car. (comfortable / her /

wooden / old) bed. 4.

He bought

(woollen / a / British / fabulous) suit.

5.

They have

(Dutch / black) bicycles.

6.

He wants

(some / French / delicious / really)

cheese. (young / a / pretty) girl walked into the room.

7. 8.

He has

9.

She bought

(a lot of / old / interesting) books. (plastic / red / a / new) plastic

lunchbox. 10. He is looking for 11. She dropped

(leather / stylish / a /black) bag. (old / beautiful / the) plate and it

smashed. 12. I want

(silk / green / an / amazing) dress.

13. She drank 14. He saw 15. They stayed in 16. I visited

(Italian / black / hot) coffee. (French / writing / old / an) desk. (little / a / cute) cottage. (ancient / a / spooky / German) castle.

17. He has

(silver / old / beautiful / a) ring.

18. We ate

(green / English / round / some) apples.

19. I need 20. They went on holiday to

beautiful) cabin.

(computer / comfortable / a) desk. (small / wooden / a /