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Order of Adjectives Explained

The document provides a list of common adjectives ordered by category including opinion, size, shape, age, color, origin, material, and purpose. It then presents exercises to test understanding of ordering adjectives correctly in sentences. The exercises include reordering adjectives, making up new sentences using adjectives in the correct order, and distributing given adjectives into the proper categories.

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Order of Adjectives Explained

The document provides a list of common adjectives ordered by category including opinion, size, shape, age, color, origin, material, and purpose. It then presents exercises to test understanding of ordering adjectives correctly in sentences. The exercises include reordering adjectives, making up new sentences using adjectives in the correct order, and distributing given adjectives into the proper categories.

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Order of adjectives
Opinion Size Shape Age Color Origin Material Purpose
A subjective To estimate the To mark out To convey how To describe To show the To express To define what
attitude to dimensions of any forms old something any colors or country an materials an an object is
someone or an object or a an object or someone is tints an object object/person object can be used for
something person can have e.g. antique, can have comes from made of e.g. dining,
e.g. nice, e.g. large, e.g. round, young, two- e.g. grey, e.g. French, e.g. wooden, hotel,
perfect huge, narrow triangular year-old silver, beige English, Italian silk, woolen swimming

Exercise 02. Correct or wrong?


Exercise 01. Put the adjectives in the correct order
CorrectWrongDo you want this red sport bike?xHe wore
I wanted to buy a_big round blue Italian dining
long Italian old coat.xWill you buy me a small pink
table. (round/blue/Italian/dining/big)
hat?xMatt saw a strange large blue ball.xDon’t touch
Does Miriam need that small square wooden chair?
(wooden-small-square) that green square box!xWho took my Swiss army
What is this triangular read leather thing? knife?xMy mum hates my blue velvet belt.xThis is a
(red/triangular/leather) half-year-old English dogxThis woolen grey scarf suits
Did you notice the brand of that splendid streamlined you.xI chose a nice green modern tint.x
green sporte
car? (green/ streamlined/splendid/sport)
William can take care of your naught white Persian
cat. (Persian/naughty/white)
This long multicolored woolen scarf belongs to my
brother. (woolen/long/multicolored)
Are you sure this ___________________ sabre is Exercise 03. Make up sentences
Turkish? (curved/nice/steel)
Press this ____________________ button never! presented/my/me/white/ball/friend/round/fine/leather/a
(plastic/red/round) _______________________________________________
Mike will order a_________________ breakfast. old/university/your/can/call/you/Italian/friend ?
(English/light/nice) _______________________________________________
This ____________________________ wardrobe is I’m/need/that/wooden/black/sure/I/this/stylish/chair
my friends’ gift. (elegantly-shaped _______________________________________________
/amazing/brown/wooden) Martha’s/violet/outfit/Dylan/didn’t/dance/see/bright
_______________________________________________

Exercise 04. Distribute the adjectives in the correct groups

OpinionnjkSize Shape Age Color Origin Material Purpose

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