An adjective is a word that describes

something
An adjective gives us more information about
a person or thing

S + be + Adjective Adjective + Noun

He is tall Slow car

She is happy Brown hat

old Old brown hat

brown Brown old hat

 black A big black wolf

big A black big wolf

Number Purpose

Opinion Material

Size Origin
Age Shape Color
Number describes the one, two, Three sleeping bags
amount or three, four, a,
quantity of nouns an, many,
several
Opinion describes your horrible, ugly, Comfortable green
judgment or what beautiful, armchair
you think about fantastic, nice
something
Size describes how big huge, tiny, Big fat red monster
or small long, tall
something is

Age describes how old old, new, A scary old house

or young young,
something is ancient,
antique
Shape describes the circular, Small round table
shape of square,
something triangular
Color describes the color black, red, Long yellow dress
of something pinkish, blue,
reddish

Origin describes where Chinese, Italian, An ancient Egyptian

the noun is from American, boy
African,
Indonesian
Material describes what the wooden, leather, A beautiful pearl
noun is made of plastic, metallic, neklace
gold

Purpose describes what the fishing, cooking, A wooden computer

noun is used for sleeping, sports desk
Number Opinion Size Age Shape Color Origin Material Purpose Noun

Three beautiful short old Asian women

new red cotton night dresses

Two

Five ugly big circular black moles

Number Opinion Size Condition Age Shape Color Origin Material Purpose Noun

Two smelly old shoes

Three ugly small dirty old thin red Italian cotton sleeping bags

Several large broken ancient Greek clay flower vases

 Tips:
 Usually, we don’t use more than three
adjectives in a sentence. The examples
given above are just used to show how
adjectives are properly put in order.
 we sometimes disarrange the adjectives
when we want to emphasize something.
 For you not to get confused, don’t forget
the acronym
exercise
Rearrange the following adjectives to make a
good sentence!
1. My friend gave me a silk, blue, soft scarf.
2. I found a rectangular, small, wooden box in
my sister’s room.
3. My classmate gave me ten, orange, small,
slimming, Chinese pills.
4. I met a Vietnamese, young, funny girl last
week.
5. Mom accidentally broke my beautiful, old,
ceramic, pink mug.