Adjective Order

In English, it is common to use more than one adjective before a noun for example, He's a silly young fool, or She's a smart, energetic woman. When you use more than one adjective, you have to put them in the right order, according to type. This page will explain the different types of adjectives and the correct order for them.

The basic types of adjectives

Opinion An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you). Examples: silly / smart, beautiful- pretty / horrible, difficult / easy, good /bad, right / wrong, funny /fool, light / heavy, happy / sad, full / empty, soft / hard etc. A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. Examples: large, tiny, enormous, big, small, little, long, tall, short, same as, etc. An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. Examples: ancient, new, young, old, mature, ancient

A shape adjective describes the shape of something. Examples: flat, round, circular, triangular, rectangular, square, oval, etc. A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something. When we have two colour adjectives, we use and Eg; A big green and yellow hat Examples: pink, reddish, grey, blue, red, green, brown, yellow, black, white, burgandy

An origin adjective describes where something comes from. Examples: French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek,Colombian,British A material adjective describes what something is made from. Examples: wooden, metal, cotton, paper, synthetic

1. Adjective Order
Write the correct noun phrase, putting the adjectives in order.

For example: blue / small / German / doll -- "a small blue German doll".

1. round / small / reading / lamp _________________________________________________

2. German / old / yellow / car __________________________________________________

3. wooden / huge / sailing / ship ____________________________________________________

4. physics / boring / old / teacher

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5. slim / Canadian / handsome / snowboarder ______________________________________________________

6. sugar / blue / round / bowl

2.Read and choose the right adjective order sentence

1. Which is the correct order? a small Canadian thin lady a Canadian small thin lady a small thin Canadian lady a thin small Canadian lady 2. Which is the correct order? a carving steel new knife a new steel carving knife a steel new carving knife a new carving steel knife 3. Which is the correct order? a beautiful blue sailing boat a blue beautiful sailing boat a sailing beautiful blue boat a blue sailing beautiful boat 4. Which is the correct order? an old wooden square table a square wooden old table an old square wooden table a wooden old square table 5. Which is the correct order? an new French exciting band a French new exciting band an exciting French new band an exciting new French band 6. Which is the correct order? a red big plastic hat a big red plastic hat a plastic big red hat a bit plastic red hat 7. Which is the correct order? a small Japanese serving bowl a Japanese small serving bowl a small serving Japanese bowl a serving small Japanese bowl 8. Which is the correct order? a cotton dirty old tie a dirty cotton old tie an old cotton dirty tie a dirty old cotton tie

Look carefully the words in the charts bellow and write them in the right order
BROWN BIG HAS ANA EYES BEAUTIFUL

1. _______________________________________________________________________
RICH FOOTBALLER SUCCESSFUL DAVID BECKHAM A BRITISH IS

2. __________________________________________________________________________

RIDICULOUS

LARGE

THE BANKER

RECEIVED

PENSION

3. ________________________________________________________________________
BLONDE TV SWEDISH IS PAM A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTER

4. __________________________________________________________________________
BLACK LIMOUSINE CHRIS IN ARRIVED A STRETCH BIG

5. __________________________________________________________________________