STUDY THE FOLLOWING TABLE:

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.

16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

a new terrible movie an old lovely house a tea yellow cup the three last people green big eyes

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

a little green man the first three days the three first days a funny little man a brown leather jacket a German small town the three last weeks a portable expensive computer an army Swiss knife a green old sweater an Italian sexy man

An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you). Examples: silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult. A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. Examples: A shape adjective describes the shape of something. Examples: square, round, An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. Examples: ancient, new, young, old. A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something. Examples: blue,

2. Place the adjectives in the correct order before the noun. Use a suitable determiner (a, an, some, the) at the beginning.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. round, small, reading, lamp German, old, yellow, car wooden, huge, sailing, ship physics, boring, old, teacher slim, Canadian, handsome,

large, tiny, enormous, little.

flat, rectangular

snowboarder 6. 7. 8. 9. sugar, blue, round, bowl

new, French, two, bicycles, racing woman, young, an, Vietnamese, attractive dedicated, a, priest, Catholic

pink, reddish, grey

10. old, her, sweater, blue, wool 11. delicious, Joes, Scandinavian, bread 12. many, cages, bird, antique, beautiful 13. round, two, marble, tables, large 14. several, yellow, tulips, tiny 15. a, sports, classic, car 16. courtyard, a, square, small, brick 17. charming, restaurants, Italian, several 18. two, new, French, racing, bicycles 19. book, interesting, small , Spanish 20. picture, modern, ugly, rectangular 21. apple, ripe, green, delicious

An origin adjective describes where something comes from. Examples: French,

A material adjective describes what something is made from. Examples: A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with "-ing". Examples: sleeping

lunar, American, eastern, Greek

wooden, metal, cotton, paper

(as in "sleeping bag"), roasting (as in "roasting tin")

1. Are the adjectives in the natural order? Put a next to the right ones and a next to the wrong ones.
1. 2. 3. 4. a a a a big red book red big book French green book beautiful green Italian scarf

22. suit, woollen, large, black 23. house, beautiful, modern, small 24. magazine, German, slender, strange 25. cap, cotton, funny, green 26. hair, false, black, beautiful, thick