Grammar Exercise Adjectives

Please rearrange the order of adjectives and nouns in the following sentences.
1. Desk/ Office/ Big/ Ugly/ An/ Wooden/ Brown
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2. Hair/ Long/ Black/ My sister's/ Straight
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3. Photograph/ Black/ White/ And/ Oval/ A/ Family/ Historic
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4. Vase/ Jade/ Ming/ Beautiful/ A/ Antique/ Little/ Green
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5. Computer/ Laptop/ High-tech/ Brand-new/ Deep/ University's/ Blue/ My
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Please use the given adjectives and nouns to make sentences using the adjective patterns that you
have learnt in class
Adjective

Noun/ Pronoun

Verb (inf.)

Silly

Linda

Do

Kind

Stella

Eat

Generous

Miss Kwan

Get

Clever

You

Go

Foolish

Sue

Have

Wonderful

Linda

Drink

Happy

Mabel

Attract

Clever

Mr. Wong

Buy

Impossible

Cinderella

Sleep

Happy

Leon

Identify

Careless

Wilson

Study

Stupid

Kitty

Take

Thoughtful

Mathew

Play

Great

Jason

Argue

Interesting

Daniel

Finish

Necessary

Kenny

Remember

Clear

Clement

Believe

Important

Elaine

Think

Crazy

Una

Create

Good

Peter

Help

Pattern 1: It is + adjective + to-infinitive

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Pattern 2: It is + adjective + for + to-infinitive
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Pattern 3: Subject + be + adjective + to-infinitive
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Pattern 4: Subject + be + adjective + enough + to-infinitive
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Pattern 5: Subject + be + too + adjective + to-infinitive

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Pattern 6: It is + adjective + of + noun/pronoun + to-infinitive
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Pattern 7: It is + adjective + that
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Exercise Ans Key Adjectives

1. An ugly big brown wooden office desk
1. determiner or article - An
2. opinion - ugly
3. size - big
4. colour - brown
5. material - wooden
6. noun used as an adjective office
7. main noun desk
8.
2. My sister's long straight black hair.
1. Determiner or article - My sister's
2. size long
3. shape straight
4. colour black
5. the main noun hair.
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3. A historic oval black and white family photograph.
1. Determiner or article - A
2. opinion - historic
3. shape - oval
4. age - (not historic, as historic means about a famous event.)
5. colour - black and white
6. noun used as an adjective - family
7. the main noun photograph
4. A beautiful little antique green jade Ming vase. (Antique means over one hundred years old,
and therefore valuable.)
1. Determiner or article - A
2. opinion - beautiful
3. size - little
4. age - antique
5. colour - green
6. material - jade
7. noun used as an adjective - Ming
8. the main noun vase
5. My university's high-tech brand-new deep blue laptop computer.
1. Determiner or article - My university's
2. opinion - high-tech
3. age - brand-new
4. colour - deep blue
5. noun used as an adjective - laptop
6. the main noun computer