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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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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