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Adjective Order #1
Remember adjectives go in this order:
Number Opinion Size Age Size Color Origin Material Purpose
Choose the correct adjective to fill in the blank.
1. Are we going to use the plates tonight?
2. The fox lives in the forest.
3. We saw a movie the other day.
4. This is going to be a challenge.
5. Is that the dress that you bought?
6. The man sat next to me.
7. Here are the sweaters that I told you about.
8. What a boy!
9. He likes to wear hats.
10. Give me the bag.
silver silver
young red
great new
diff icult new
new blue
old American
beautiful w ool
cute little
ugly round
brow n paper
Choose the correct answer
1. a(n) _____ _____ _____ lady
American old rich
old rich American
rich old American 2. a _____ _____ _____ spoon
brown soup wooden
brown wooden soup
wooden brown soup 3. a(n) _____ _____ _____ dress
expensive pink summer
summer expensive pink
pink expensive summer 4. a(n) _____ _____ _____ book
boring old science
old boring science
boring science old 5. a _____ _____ _____ scarf
Chinese pretty silk
pretty silk Chinese
pretty Chinese silk
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El orden de los adjetivos descriptivos
1. Which is correct?
A. ? a lovely glass 19th century vase
B. :-) a lovely 19th century glass vase
2. Which is correct?
A. :-) an antique silver sugar pot
B. ? an antique sugar silver pot
3. Which is correct?
A. ? several Thai valuable postage stamps
B. :-) several valuable Thai postage stamps
4. Which is correct?
A. :-) four red metal kitchen stools
B. ? four metal red kitchen stools
5. Which is correct?
A. :-) an enormous rectangular brick house
B. ? a rectangular enormous brick house
6. Which is correct?
A. ? a German brown leather bag
B. :-) a brown German leather bag
7. Which is correct?
A. ? a wonderful wollen grey sweater
B. :-) a wonderful grey wollen sweater
8. Which is correct?
A. :-) a large rosewood dining table
B. ? a rosewood large dining table
9. Which is correct?
A. ? curly long dark brown hair
B. :-) long curly dark brown hair
10. Which is correct?
A. ? lovely small satin Italian dancing shoes
B. :-) lovely small Italian satin dancing shoes
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Descriptive adjective constructions
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reading / yellow / round / lampa round yellow reading lamp 2. German / rare / silver / cara rare silver German car 3. wooden / huge /sailing /boata huge wooden sailing boat 4. experienced / old / English / teacheran experienced old English teacher 5. coffee / French / china / pota French china coffee pot 6. table / red / square / metala square red metal table 7. exiciting / British / new / bandan exciting new British band 8. tall / young / handsome / lawyera handsome tall young lawyer 9. big / plastic / red / baga big red plastic bag 10. silk / trendy / tie / olda trendy old silk tie
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ONLINE ENGLISH GRAMMAR QUIZ topic: ADJECTIVES - Adjective order in English 4 | level: Advanced
HERE ARE YOUR RESULTS:You scored 10 out of 10
Sometimes you need to use two or more adjectives to describe something or someone. Part of becoming fluent in English is knowing which order to use these adjectives in. Choose the most natural-sounding response:
1. He was wearing a ________ shirt. dirty old flannel
flannel old dirty
old dirty flannel
2. Pass me the ________ cups.
plastic big blue
big blue plastic
big plastic blue
3. All the girls fell in love with the ________ teacher.
handsome new American
American new handsome
new handsome American
4. I used to drive ________ car.
a blue old German
an old German blue
an old blue German
5. He recently married a ________ woman.
young beautiful Greek
beautiful young Greek
beautiful Greek young
6. This is a ________ movie.
new Italian wonderful
wonderful Italian new
wonderful new Italian
7. She is a ________ supermodel.
beautiful slim Brazilian
Brazilian beautiful slim
slim Brazilian beautiful
8. It's in the ________ container.
large blue metal
blue large metal
blue metal large
9. He sat behind a ________ desk.
big wooden brown
big brown wooden
wooden big brown
10. She gave him a ________ vase.
small Egyptian black
black Egyptian small
small black Egyptian
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Order of ADJECTIVESBasic types of adjectives and the correct order for using them.
OPINION SIZE AGE SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL PURPOSEWhat do you think about something?
How big or small is it?
How old or young someone or something is?
What is the shape?
What colour is it? Where is it from?
What is it made of? What is it used for?
pretty, ugly, small, tiny, old, young, square, red, blue, British, silver, gold, racing (car),
silly, smart, easy, fun...
large, enormous, big...
adolescent, new, ancient...
triangular, irregular, flat, round...
magenta, pinkish...
Chinese, French, Brazilian, western, lunar...
copper, wood, plastic, cotton...
football (field)frying (pan)
1. Put the adjectives in order.
A car. A teacher. A clock. An chair.Italian / sports / fantastic French / nice / old alarm / red / small old / rocking / wooden
An bowl. A jacket. A boat. grapes.African / interesting / old black / leather / smart red / sailing / beautiful Chilean / delicious /
green
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